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Senior Cloud Solution Architect-CTJ-Secret

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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Reston, VA$106.4k - $203.6kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Solution Architect focused on Cloud & AI Data to help customers build unified, governed, secure, and AI-ready data estates on Microsoft Azure. Leads technical engagements across architecture design, POCs, and production deployments, leveraging Azure and related AI/data services.

Responsibilities

  • Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction.
  • Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks.
  • Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures.
  • Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals.
  • Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets.
  • Leveraging change management practices, helps customers deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase satisfaction and drive consumption/usage.
  • Guides customers/partners towards well-architected, secure/resilient, AI-enabled, cost- and performance-optimized solutions to increase retention and expansion opportunities.
  • Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine content.
  • Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value and Microsoft value proposition, to empower cloud success and AI innovation.
  • Captures opportunities in systems/tools and collaborates across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.
  • Identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
  • Security clearance requirements including Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance and ability to meet government/customer screening requirements.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check requirement and citizenship verification for U.S. citizenship.
  • Preferred qualifications include 8+ years experience (various degree paths), 4+ years customer-facing experience, 4+ years on technical projects, and cloud certifications.

Skills

Required:Cloud architectureAzure data servicesSecurity and governanceStakeholder management
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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