Data and AI Solution Architect

Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs. 
 
Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI. We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.
The Solution Architect is responsible for translating the client’s business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for very large complex technology solutions and architectures. You’ll act as an advocate for the client as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems. You’ll provide direction for design activities, often project-based, sometimes working at customer sites.
 As a Solution Architect you’ll gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects. You’ll define and document the architecture to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach. Collaborating with the Project Manager you’ll jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use. You’ll work with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders to gather and ratify requirements and constraints and collaborating with the Account Team and/or Bid Team to understand the business solution/problem.  This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.   
 
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 - 

• You will gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders as well as the main business sponsor to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects and work with customer/partner stakeholders and business sponsor to socialize both the business solution and the project approach to determine if changes are needed to the business solution.
• You will use evidence-based approach to represent the customer/partner as a customer advocate and share insights with Product Engineering teams and the business with a view to improving Microsoft technologies, products, services and offerings such that they can better meet customer/partner needs across a territory.
• You will define and document the Architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach.
• You will work with customers to understand and demonstrate business value (e.g., release of revenue, cost savings) that the business solution realizes and manage and resolve ambiguity in the requirements and constraints and documents assumptions and implications where it cannot be resolved.
• You will generate new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas to drive changes. 
• You will identify which ideas should be culled, with consideration for scale across customers and drive the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery as well as participate and contribute to internal/external communities.
• You will lead virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.

Technology Areas 

• Design and lead end‑to‑end enterprise data, GenAI, Copilot, and agentic AI architectures, translating business outcomes into scalable, secure, and governed solutions across cloud data platforms and AI services.
• Own data platform design (lakehouse/data lake/warehouse, streaming, analytics, semantic models) to ensure the enterprise data estate is AI‑ready (quality, lineage, governance, observability).
• Lead data migration and modernization from on‑premises environments to cloud, including planning and executing migrations with minimal disruption, and aligning migration choices to modernization goals.
• Architect and drive cross‑cloud / multi‑cloud data integration and migration scenarios (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure), including federated analytics approaches and unified governance across clouds where required.
• Define GenAI solution patterns, including prompt orchestration, embeddings, vector search, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and grounding strategies that connect LLMs to enterprise data and systems.
• Lead architecture for Copilot and AI‑augmented applications, integrating AI services into business workflows and productivity scenarios while aligning to enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Design and govern agentic AI architectures, including orchestration across sub‑agents, API/tool integration, modular design, observability, and human validation / human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
• Establish AI platform and MLOps/LLMOps foundations, covering lifecycle management, monitoring, evaluation/feedback loops, and operational readiness for production AI systems.
• Ensure Responsible AI, security, privacy, and compliance by design, including data protection and Zero Trust alignment—especially for regulated enterprise environments.
• Architect cloud‑native resiliency and operational excellence, including reliability, performance efficiency, and proactive monitoring—applied to AI and migration programs.
• Own technical delivery excellence across GenAI/Copilot/agentic engagements from presales through PoCs, pilots, and production deployments, leveraging partners/factory models for scale.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to executives, engineering leaders, and partners—communicating architecture decisions, trade‑offs, and value realization clearly.
• Bring strong experience in migration & modernization programs, including workload assessment and dependency mapping to inform sequencing and reduce risk.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
  • OR equivalent experience
• 6+ years technical sales experience
• 6+ years project management experience
• 3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers
  • Technical or Professional Certification in Domain (e.g., Security)

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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