Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI

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. 

We are seeking a highly experienced Sr. Cloud Solution Architect to join our Federal organization. This role requires deep technical expertise across Azure workloads, including AI, data, applications, and infrastructure, and a passion for helping enterprise customers solve complex challenges and accelerate their digital transformation. 

In this senior, customer-facing role, you will lead strategic technical engagements and serve as a trusted advisor to both technical and executive stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings a rare combination of deep technical competency, the ability to technically program manage complex, multi-workstream initiatives, and the executive presence required to communicate effectively with senior leaders and decision-makers. 

You will ensure end cloud solutions are deployed effectively, partner with Customer Success leaders and account teams to shape and execute cloud strategies, and drive projects from strategy through implementation and operationalization. This role requires the ability to orchestrate across multiple technical teams, align architecture to business outcomes, and translate complex technical concepts into clear executive-level messaging. 

This is a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of strategy and execution—helping government customers modernize mission-critical systems, adopt AI responsibly, and build secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable long-term innovation and mission impact.

Business Impact  

Operates in accordance with required operational excellence and proven practice standards across all sales stages, activities, and tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams to deliver on strategy and achieve customer and partner objectives while increasing overall satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology, and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and mitigate risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands, focusing on where the greatest customer impact can be achieved while ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals. 

Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage, and Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale, based on customer and partner business value and a clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition across supported platforms. Helps empower cloud success, strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers and partners, building trust and credibility while advocating for alternative architectures, solutions, and approaches that shape and enhance customer requirements and experiences. Identifies and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals and the information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer and partner insights (e.g., technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer and partner business outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, and works collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft’s Customer Engagement Model. 

Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization, and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge to architecture and support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints. 

Customer Centricity  

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