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Frontier Portfolio Architect

Microsoft· Solution Architecture
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United States$77.9k - $156.2kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

The Frontier Portfolio Architect builds and curates a portfolio of repeatable, productized offers aligned to market need, industry requirements, and delivery learnings. The role defines reference architectures and blueprints, harvests reusable assets from engagements, and ensures offers are coherent end-to-end and reusable across multiple engagements, advancing Frontier Transformation.

Responsibilities

  • Build and curate a portfolio of repeatable offers aligned to market need, industry requirements, functional use cases, and patterns across deliveries and pursuits.
  • Maintain a view of market and competitive landscape and position the portfolio based on demand, differentiation, and white space.
  • Track the Microsoft product and engineering roadmap and sequence the portfolio to align with platform support.
  • Distinguish what is feasibly repeatable from what must be tailored, designing offers with a reusable core and defined customization points.
  • Define reference architectures, solution blueprints, and offer definitions—scope, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery approach—for reuse across engagements.
  • Mine delivery and pursuit patterns to harvest reusable assets, accelerators, and design patterns.
  • Partner with eight delivery capability leaders and business architects to ensure end-to-end coherence and grounding in the framework.
  • Support sales and pursuit teams with solution shaping to map proposals to portfolio offers and feasibility to deliver.
  • Govern the portfolio lifecycle—prioritizing, versioning, and retiring offers based on market fit and delivery evidence.
  • Establish standards, artifacts, and intake processes to keep the portfolio current, discoverable, and adopted by delivery and sales teams.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) 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 3+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR equivalent experience.
  • Proven track record designing enterprise solutions and translating them into repeatable, reusable offers or accelerators.
  • Understanding of the market and competitive landscape for AI and enterprise solutions, and ability to position offers against real demand.
  • Ability to read a product and engineering roadmap and align a solution portfolio to platform direction.
  • Sound judgment for distinguishing what is feasibly repeatable from what must be tailored to the customer.
  • Experience defining reference architectures, solution blueprints, and offer definitions used across multiple engagements.
  • Ability to work across delivery, product and engineering, sales, and pursuit teams, and to influence without direct authority.
  • Experience supporting pre-sales or pursuits with solution shaping and feasibility assessment.
  • Working knowledge of the Microsoft AI platform, including Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365, and the Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ intelligence layers.
  • Industry expertise in Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Energy, or Government, including their solution and regulatory requirements.
  • Familiarity with the disciplines behind the eight delivery capabilities and how offers span them end-to-end.
  • Experience with offer or product portfolio management, including lifecycle governance, versioning, and retirement.
  • Experience building solution catalogs, reference architectures, or accelerator libraries adopted at scale.
  • Background in management consulting, enterprise transformation, or a delivery organization.

Skills

Required:Portfolio managementReference architectures

Benefits

  • Benefits and other compensation may be available; see company pay information: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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