About this role
<b>Overview</b><br><p style="margin: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.<strong> </strong> </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), specializing in AI solutions, who is passionate about driving our customers’ AI transformation journey with M365 Copilot, Agents, as well as Copilot Studio, PowerPlatform and Github Copilot. This is a customer-facing role that serves as a strategic trusted advisor and technical subject matter expert, accelerating AI adoption and change management by creating business value and ROI. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><ul style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Be a trusted advisor and drive business value through AI Transformation</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: Create business value by translating customer challenges into actionable solutions aligned to high ROI customer outcomes. Ensure a seamless, connected experience that fosters satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term value.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Drive Customer Success</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: Lead architectural design, engaging with business and technical decision makers to drive intent and enable sustained usage of Copilot Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot, securing long-term customer success and renewal.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Leverage Agentic AI</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: Use Copilot prompt engineering and Agent-building expertise to drive AI at scale.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Explore growth opportunities:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Partner with technical and sales teams to identify opportunities and develop tailored solutions to drive expansion and business value realization.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Accelerate Customer AI Transformation Journey</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: Engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-use, and learn from others to help accelerate your customer’s AI transformation journey.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Embrace a growth mindset:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Act as the voice of the customer by proactively sharing insights, feedback, and success stories to inform internal strategy and execution. </span></li><li style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Learn-it-all: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Demonstrate a self-learner mindset through continuous, self-directed learning in areas such as Copilot Chat, Agents, M365 Copilot, business value realization, and adoption and change management. Build and maintain technical readiness aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU) priorities and corporate initiatives. </span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;" type="disc"><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Relevant experience designing and delivering cloud or AI solutions in a customer-facing, consulting or technical role.</div></li><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Equivalent practical experience is welcome.</div></li><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Experience taking AI assistants or agents beyond a pilot, including supporting adoption and demonstrating business value.</div></li><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform or GitHub Copilot—or comparable enterprise AI tools.</div></li><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Ability to work with senior business and technical stakeholders to turn customer needs into practical solutions.</div></li><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Strong written and verbal communication in English.</div></li><li style="color: #242424; background-color: white; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-right: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><div>Dutch language skills are desirable.</div></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.0cm; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>