Cloud Solution Architect
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Job description
The Customer Advocacy's team mission is to incubate and scale innovative new business models and customer experiences. The team leverages adaptive leadership principles to drive large-scale change and transform business models across SME&C (Small, Medium Enterprises & Channel), Digital Natives & ISVs (Independent Software Vendors), Education, Public Sector, Health and Life Sciences and other industry-specific customer segments. The Cloud Solution Architect (Developer Experience CoE) provides senior technical leadership to early-stage, high-engineering customers by guiding architectural decisions, improving developer workflows, and establishing scalable cloud and AI patterns that accelerate Azure alignment and developer productivity.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Early-Stage Architectural Leadership
Engage with high-engineering-density Digital Native and ISV customers that meet Dev CoE criteria (early architectural lock-in risk and developer-experience constraints). Serve as senior technical advisor to founders, CTOs, platform leaders, and Staff+ engineering stakeholders. Guide design of secure, scalable, AI-enabled architectures using Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, cloud-native compute, and modern engineering practices. Lead design reviews, modernization discussions, and deep architectural evaluations that influence long-term technical direction. Remove early engineering blockers by coordinating subject-matter experts and establishing clear architectural patterns.
Developer Experience & AI Thought Leadership
Shape early developer workflows, tooling decisions, and AI-assisted engineering practices within high-velocity teams. Drive adoption of Copilot, intelligent IDE workflows, and emerging agentic DevOps approaches. Align customer engineering strategies with Microsoft's platform roadmap, supporting informed technical decisions at critical early milestones.
Pattern Development & Global Field Scalability
Translate recurring customer scenarios into reusable architecture patterns, templates, guides, and validated design scenarios. Contribute to global communities of practice across CSAs and developer engineering teams. Provide recurring, high-quality product feedback to Azure, GitHub, and PG engineering based on early-stage customer use cases. Capture and distribute patterns that prevent repeated architectural pitfalls across Digital Native and ISV ecosystems.
Business Impact & Organizational Alignment
Drive measurable customer impact through improved developer velocity, stronger architectural foundations, and early Azure alignment. Partner with account-aligned CSAs, CSAMs, AEs, and engineering teams to ensure cohesive customer engagement. Support FY27 Digital Native segmentation by enabling a consistent, repeatable early-stage engagement model. Maintain operational rigor across governance, delivery excellence, time tracking, and cross-team alignment.
Requirements
- Experience in cloud architecture, software engineering, or technical consulting.
- Experience working directly with developers, platform teams, and engineering leadership.
- Ability to lead architectural strategy discussions and influence senior technical decision-makers.
- Strong depth in cloud-native engineering, including microservices, APIs, containers, CI/CD, GitHub, DevOps, and observability practices.
- Hands-on expertise in AI/ML systems, vector search, RAG patterns, Azure AI Foundry, or modern agentic architecture approaches.
- Proven ability to create reusable architecture patterns, technical IP, or engine
Preferred additional requirements:
- Experience with Digital Native or ISV customer environments.
- Familiarity with developer productivity tooling and AI-assisted SDLC workflows.
- Ability to influence engineering strategy across multiple customers or geographies.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with product engineering teams across Azure, GitHub, or PG.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
About the company
Microsoft is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We develop, license, and support a wide range of software products, services, and devices that help individuals and businesses realize their full potential.
Our flagship products include the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud, Windows operating system, Azure cloud platform, and Dynamics 365 business applications. We are also a leader in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, and gaming through Xbox and Game Pass.
With operations in more than 190 countries and over 220,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft is committed to responsible innovation, inclusive economic growth, and sustainability. We work closely with governments, industries, and communities to ensure that technology serves the public good and helps address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2025, we continue to look forward—investing in AI, cloud, and quantum computing to shape the future of work, education, and society at large scale.
