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Responsibilities
- Lead and guide partner transformation efforts globally, helping align technology roadmaps with Microsoft's Cloud and AI priorities.
- Help partners build and mature Centers of Excellence, delivery capabilities, technical practices, and solution offerings that scale Microsoft-based services and support their evolution into AI-first, services-led businesses.
- Support partners through large-scale cloud transformation journeys by encouraging innovation, modernization, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and share frameworks, best practices, and repeatable approaches that accelerate time-to-market and enable global scale.
- Share expertise and insights that help partners evaluate and adopt emerging technologies such as generative AI, agentic AI, cloud-native architectures, and advanced security solutions.
- Encourage experimentation, learning, and responsible innovation to help partners differentiate their services and create customer value.
- Build trusted, long-term relationships with partner technology leaders, executives, architects, and stakeholders across regions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, helping partners develop technology strategies that balance global consistency with local market needs.
- Collaborate with Microsoft engineering, field, and regional teams to ensure technical strategies can be effectively implemented across geographies.
- Bring partner feedback, customer insights, and market trends into discussions that help shape future product capabilities and partner investments.
- Develop and communicate long-term partner technology strategies that span multiple solution areas and business priorities.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for both technical and business audiences.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or a related field, plus 4+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, or consulting; equivalent experience accepted.
- 8+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a master’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing role.
- 4+ years of experience working on technical projects.
- Technical certification in cloud technologies, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or security certifications.
- Authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer visa sponsorship.
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
Microsoft Insights
What We Do
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.
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