Solution Architect - CTJ - Top Secret

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG).  Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs.  To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel.   Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment – Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.

Are you ready to seize an opportunity to build leading edge technology solutions and to deploy into production with real world impact? Do you thrive by mentoring and leading by example? Would you love to help us accelerate the transformation towards digital organizations? Are you ready for the opportunity to change the world one application at a time? 

If so, the Solution Architect position in Microsoft Federal Industry Solutions Delivery is for you!

At Microsoft, we share knowledge, experiences, and resources to help each other achieve our career goals and grow both professionally and personally. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds who exhibit passion, technical competence, and experience in services delivery with complex projects or environments. Experience in this role will provide great opportunities to interact with pre-release versions, collaborate with product development teams and improve future versions of Microsoft products as a subject matter expert.

Together, we can help billions of people around the globe using digital technology to achieve amazing things.

• Solution Architects develop solutions by mapping customer business problems to reusable end-to-end technology solutions, develop customer adoption strategies, and manage customer expectations to ensure successful delivery and scope follow-on business integration.
• You will enable consultants, field engineers, and partners
• You will engage over the entire lifecycle of large and complex projects from early pre-sales through delivery oversight
• You will maintain effective product group relationships
• You will lead and motivate technical communities and provide quality assurance for solutions developed by others
• You will present to executive audiences, help customer account teams identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities, and drive add-on business within existing projects

Travel under normal circumstances is required based on customer assignments and locations

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or 
government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, 
but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. 
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are 
required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer 
screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security 
clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide 
clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud 
background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due 
to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, 
state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain 
citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal 
requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or 
verified US government Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years' experience providing solution architecture and consulting
• Cloud configurations, migrations, patterns, and practices
• Azure Cloud Services to include hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and networking technologies
• Project delivery according to NIST 800-160 standards
• Passion for our customers demonstrated through professionalism and excellence in all aspects of the customer experience
• Deep understanding of competitive landscape and an ability to assess feasibility of migrating customer solutions from and/or integrating with the customer's non-Microsoft platforms
• Strong confidence, teamwork, ability to lead, promote collaboration, and professionally represent Microsoft in challenging environments and customer situations
• Azure subscription planning and network architecture
• Active Directory and Migration Services
• Containerization, DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Services
• Scripting, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Azure Stack and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
• Azure Virtual Desktop and Intune
• Azure Advanced Networking technologies
• DDIL Cloud best practices
• Technical knowledge of Microsoft security and identity technologies
• Technical milestone documentation to meet DoD Instruction 5000.2 AAF

Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,800 - $193,800 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 $126,100 - $207,600 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.