Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.
As an early-in-career Partner Solution Architect (PSA), you will work closely with Microsoft partners to design, validate, and scale innovative cloud and AI solutions that help customers achieve their business goals. You will collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, provide architectural guidance, and help partners accelerate adoption of Microsoft technologies. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep technical and partner engagement skills, and build expertise across Microsoft's cloud, AI, and security solutions. Microsoft offers a flexible work environment, allowing employees to work from home part of the time while collaborating regularly with their teams and partners.
As a Partner Solution Architect, you will gather partner insights and leverage these insights to design solution architectures, provide technical expertise, develop and validate Microsoft solutions, and help partners achieve business outcomes through successful technology adoption. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, supporting solution design, readiness, and the adoption of new Microsoft technologies. This opportunity will allow you to leverage your knowledge of Microsoft products, services, and value propositions in partner conversations while identifying opportunities to drive partner growth and customer success.
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 act as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, blockers and insights that relate to the customer/partner with internal teams.
- You will demonstrate basic technical concepts and prove those design solutions' capability through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner and support customer skilling needs by participating in discussions on technical delivery with other internal and external stakeholders to transfer knowledge and contribute to customer readiness.
- With supervision, you will identify issues and advises customers/partners to operate and optimize performance in accordance with Microsoft best practices and apply methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while ensuring excellence in contributions to design and/or delivery of solutions.
- You will learn about the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft's Cloud and support businesses and share learnings with others (e.g., peer groups, customers) as appropriate and assess customer/partner needs and gather information that helps others to identify growth opportunities.
- You will learn to identify and communicate areas in intellectual property (IP) that need refreshing or have gaps and contribute to IP development with guidance/supervision.
- You will leverage development opportunities (e.g., mentorships, role-based resources, training courses, internal events such as Ready, Build, Ignite) to learn new technologies or services.
- You will embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Legally authorised to work in the location where this role is based. (Legally authorised = you hold citizenship or have been granted a valid visa or work permit.)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 1+ year(s) work or equivalent experience involving cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
- Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
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Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 36,600.00 - £ 63,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html
Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Germany is € 55,400.00 - € 88,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/germany-corporate-pay.html
Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Netherlands is € 45,900.00 - € 68,900.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/netherlands-corporate-pay.html
Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Switzerland is CHF 91,700.00 - CHF 137,500.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/switzerland-corporate-pay.html
Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Belgium is € 48,200.00 - € 72,400.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/belgium-corporate-pay.html
Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Norway is kr 474,000.00 - kr 710,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/norway-corporate-pay.html
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
- Legally authorised to work in the location where this role is based
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field
- 1+ year work or equivalent experience involving cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- Technical certification in cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google) or security certifications
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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