Cloud Solution Architecture( 1818454)
- Development
- United States
- 2025-04-23
- Full Time
Overview
The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more.
As a Cloud Solution Architect you will guide the development of business solutions, provide deep technical insights, and accelerate the growth of Microsoft Tech priorities, with a focus on building the technical skills of our Partners. This opportunity gives you experiences in building strategy, technical skills, and leadership skills.
Join our team as a Cloud Solution Architect and play a pivotal role in guiding our most significant partners to designing and implementing innovative scalable, secure, and efficient cloud architectures that meet market needs. By leveraging your skills in technical leadership, cloud computing, software development, problem solving and systems architecture, you will drive business impact by enabling digital transformation, optimizing performance, and driving innovation through the effective use of cloud technologies.
As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will work closely with partners to understand their technical requirements and business objectives, and provide technical readiness that builds skills to deliver architectural design sessions, developing proof of concepts, and help them transition from legacy systems to modern cloud environments, ensuring that their solutions are optimized for performance and cost-efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Design Cloud Architectures - Ensure robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure tailored to partner needs, allowing businesses to handle growth, and changing demands efficiently.
- Lead Architectural Design Sessions - Facilitate the creation of effective and efficient cloud solutions through collaborative planning and design sessions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. This collaboration fosters innovation and problem-solving, leading to better-designed systems.
- Develop Proof of Concepts and Pilots – Demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of proposed cloud solutions, gaining partner buy-in and driving adoption. These prototypes help validate ideas and identify potential issues before full-scale implementation, saving time and resources.
- Provide Technical Guidance and Support - Ensure successful implementation and optimization of cloud solutions, enhancing partner satisfaction and solution performance, to maximize the value of partner’ cloud investments and adapt efficiently to challenges.
- Transition Partner from Legacy Systems - Facilitate smooth transitions to modern cloud environments, improving efficiency and reducing operational risks for partners, to help them stay competitive by leveraging the latest technologies and cloud best practices.
- Thought Leadership & Stakeholder Management - Drive innovation to meet future market demand and maximize partner impact. Establish long-term engagement to influence large partners in adopting Microsoft Technologies. Proven track record of developing deep technical relationships.
- Partner Enablement and Business Acumen - Experience in offering guidance to the broader technical team to ensure that technical pre-sales, deployment, and consumption are part of solution development efforts and the ability to coach the partner on building resilience to technical issues and dealing with competition and and/or discuss Microsoft products and articulate the value proposition of Microsoft Cloud services to partners by understanding of business processes and the ability to identify opportunities where technology can drive business value. Experience in translating technical concepts into business benefits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 2+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
- OR master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 2+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
- OR equivalent experience
- Technical certification in cloud (e.g. Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
- 2+ years of related experience in ANY of the following technologies: emerging cloud trends like generative AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE), application development with AI services, DevOps and GitHub as a developer platform, and Kubernetes.
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/application development, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- OR equivalent experience
- 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
- 4+ years experience working on technical projects
- Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
Cloud Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $83,400 - $167,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $108,900 - $183,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 2+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience
