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Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Cloud and Agentic AI Solutions - New York

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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New York, NY$165.6k - $272.3kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Principal Cloud Solution Architect focused on moving AI applications and agents from experimentation to production on Azure in the New York metro area. Customer-facing role leading architecture design, pilots, and production milestones to accelerate adoption of Azure AI Foundry, Agent Factory, GitHub, and related data/services, with 100% on-site presence in New York area.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with customer IT and business leaders to understand their application, agent, data, and AI priorities, and design secure, scalable solutions that drive business value, customer confidence, and production adoption.
  • Lead technical engagements across architecture design, proof of concepts, pilots, and production milestones to accelerate adoption of Azure AI Foundry, Agent Factory, GitHub, app platforms, integration services, and supporting data services.
  • Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the Customer Success Account Manager.
  • Drive next best actions and generate incremental Cloud pipeline from each engagement.
  • Deliver repeatable intellectual property (IP) and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate deployment and achieve targeted outcomes.
  • Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for key Factory engagements across AI Apps, agents, and app innovation projects, using Cloud Acceleration Factory as a delivery differentiator to accelerate time-to-value.
  • Lead the health, resiliency, sovereignty, security, capacity management, and optimization of mission-critical workloads, including service and model retirements, to ensure readiness for production-scale AI and agent use cases.
  • Act as the Voice of the Customer by sharing adoption issues, capacity constraints, product gaps, deployment blockers, platform readiness feedback, and preview limitations with engineering teams to accelerate resolution and improve product outcomes.
  • Support customer and partner skilling through technical workshops, readiness activities, and guidance on AI Apps, agents, GitHub, app modernization, resiliency, and production readiness.
  • Maintain deep technical expertise and stay current with Azure, AI, GitHub, and cloud-native development trends, while contributing to internal and external technical communities.
  • Maintain deep technical expertise in Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Agent365, Microsoft IQs, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Platform, app platforms, containers, serverless, integration services, DevOps, and supporting data and customer health workloads, while contributing to internal and external technical communities.
  • Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously aligning your skills to customer needs, contributing to knowledge sharing, and mentoring others to accelerate customer outcomes.
  • Other: Embody culture and values as part of the role.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in Cloud & AI platform technologies, including Azure architecture, AI and agents, GitHub, Agentic DevOps, AI Agent development, data platforms, application modernization, resiliency, security, and production-scale cloud delivery, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Azure architectureAzure AI FoundryAgentic DevOpsGitHub / CopilotSecurity and complianceProduction deployment

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description.
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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