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Responsibilities
As an EPS Partner Solution Architect (PSA), your responsibilities will include:
Guide Solution Development & Activation - You’ll lead the development and activation of new or enhanced partner offerings that align with Microsoft Cloud priorities. Your focus will be on ensuring these solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and tailored to meet evolving customer needs.
Empower Innovation - You’ll run technical innovation workshops, tech briefings, and envisioning sessions to build technical intensity across partner teams. By collaborating with engineering and product teams, you’ll help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies and shape partner offerings that align with both business goals and technical requirements.
Strategic Sales Enablement - You’ll play a key role in activating transformational deals by providing architectural guidance, resolving technical blockers, and enhancing solution design. Your work will directly contribute to workload consumption and revenue impact.
Champion Technical Excellence - You’ll guide partners through architecture design sessions, proof-of-concepts, and MVP builds. You’ll ensure that solutions follow Microsoft’s Cloud and AI best practices and are optimized for performance, scalability, and security.
Thought Leadership & Stakeholder Management - You’ll build long-term engagements with strategic partners, influencing their adoption of Microsoft technologies. You’ll develop deep technical relationships with CXOs and foster executive alignment to support joint success.
Measure and Share Impact: You’ll Track and report progress through Microsoft internal tools. You’ll contribute to internal knowledge sharing by publishing, community blogs, and reusable patterns.
Drive Pre-Sales Motion & Business Acumen – You´ll act as a technical business developer by identifying new opportunities, creating repeatable solutions, activating, driving scalable motions, and accelerating business growth through measurable results.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
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.
Other Requirements
Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ 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, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
OR equivalent experience
8+ years of related experience in technology IP solution services development, application modernization, understanding digital transformation business drivers, cloud architecture, and AI Apps technologies including Kubernetes, DevOps, GitHub, secure application development, and AI services. Experience designing, developing, deploying, and modernizing full-stack applications, APIs, and distributed cloud-native solutions in public cloud environments, including hands-on software engineering experience throughout the application lifecycle and proficiency in modern development practices, CI/CD, source control, and application lifecycle management.
6+ years experience working in a partner-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external, regional and/or global).
6+ years experience architecting and deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions and scalable AI platforms that integrate data, applications, security, and governance. Experience with full-stack application architecture, API-first design, GitHub-based developer workflows, DevSecOps practices, application modernization, and implementation of Well-Architected Framework (WAF) principles for cloud-native and AI workloads.
Hands-on experience with software development using modern programming languages, application frameworks, containerized environments, and cloud-native architectures.
Technical Certification in Cloud, AI and/or Security (e.g., Microsoft Azure, GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Security, or AI certifications)
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.
- 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
