Senior Cloud Solution Architect, AI Data, Partner Solutions

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect aligned to Microsoft's Partner Solutions Architecture (PSA) team. In this role you will drive partner-led AI adoption by enabling partners to design, build, and scale responsible AI-powered solutions on Microsoft Cloud and AI platforms. The focus is on helping partners translate AI capabilities into secure, scalable, and outcome-based offerings, including agentic solutions, copilots, and AI-powered applications that integrate with customer and partner data, business processes, and existing systems aligned with measurable business impact.

The AI-focused PSA serves as the technical AI authority for partners, guiding solution architecture, extensibility, governance, and readiness to deliver differentiated business outcomes using Microsoft's AI platform.

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

What You'll Do

• Enable partners to design and build AI, agentic, and copilot-based solutions using Microsoft AI platforms
• Provide architecture guidance, best practices, and hands-on technical enablement across AI workloads
• Help partners address gaps in solution design, readiness, governance, security, and Responsible AI
• Support the evolution from traditional applications to AI-driven, agent-based, and conversational experiences
• Guide partners in creating repeatable, transactable, outcome-based AI offerings, not one-off projects

Why This Role Matters

As AI rapidly reshapes how customers build software and run their businesses, this role sits at the center of Microsoft's partner-led AI scale strategy. You help partners move from experimentation to production, from demos to durable offerings, and from technology delivery to measurable business impact, accelerating customer success and Microsoft AI adoption at scale.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience., * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, 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, Liberal Arts, 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.
• Microsoft certifications in Artificial Intelligence and Business Applications are highly valued.

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year.

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.