About this role

Overview As a Principal Digital Cloud Solution Architect (DCSA) – Cloud & AI Platforms (CAIP), you will be a customer-facing technical leader responsible for helping strategic customers accelerate business value, cloud adoption, and digital transformation through Microsoft Azure and AI technologies. You will combine deep technical expertise, architecture leadership, and strong business acumen to understand customers’ business priorities and technology environments, shape their cloud and AI strategy, and translate complex requirements into scalable technical architectures. You will engage technical and business decision makers, lead Architecture Design Sessions, pilots, and proofs of concept, and help customers move from technical validation through successful production adoption. Working across customers, partners, Microsoft sales, engineering, product, and support teams, you will orchestrate technical resources, remove complex blockers, identify new workloads, and provide strategic guidance that expands and optimizes customers’ use of Microsoft Cloud solutions. You will also serve as a technical leader across the broader organization, sharing architecture best practices, enabling peers and partners, and contributing technical insights that scale customer success. Responsibilities <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Lead cloud and AI architecture strategy: Design and guide scalable technical architectures across Microsoft Azure and Cloud & AI solutions, aligning customer business priorities, technical environments, modernization strategies, and conditions for success.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Drive Architecture Design Sessions, pilots, and proofs of concept: Lead technical workshops, demonstrations, pilots, and POCs that validate proposed architectures, demonstrate business value, address technical requirements, and accelerate customers toward production deployment.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Drive Azure adoption and consumption: Analyze customer usage, technical needs, and business objectives to identify new workloads and opportunities to expand, retain, and optimize Azure consumption while establishing measurable customer outcomes and implementation milestones.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Engage and influence technical decision makers: Build trusted-advisor relationships with customer technical and business leaders by combining deep technical expertise with an understanding of customer priorities, industry context, and digital transformation strategies.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Resolve complex technical and business blockers: Anticipate, identify, troubleshoot, and drive resolution of technical and non-technical blockers by orchestrating Microsoft engineering, product, support, sales, and partner resources and escalating appropriately when required.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Orchestrate Microsoft and partner ecosystems: Collaborate across Digital Cloud Solution Architects, sales teams, engineering, partners, and other Microsoft resources to deliver integrated solutions, scale technical engagements, and ensure successful deployment and adoption.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Provide technical and strategic leadership: Maintain deep technical readiness across Cloud & AI technologies, provide architecture guidance and technical insights to internal teams and customers, share best practices, mentor and enable peers, and contribute expertise to technical communities and one-to-many customer engagements.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Manage customer progress and business outcomes: Establish customer timelines, success metrics, and value realization plans; monitor adoption and implementation progress; identify risks and opportunities; and maintain accurate customer progress to support forecasting, pipeline reviews, and achievement of revenue and consumption objectives.</li></ul> Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications<ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 5+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR 8+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR equivalent experience.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Fluent English and Spanish communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with customers, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders in written and verbal business environments.</li></ul> Additional or preferred qualifications<ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technical architect, consulting, design and implementation, and/or sales OR equivalent experience.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">6+ years experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology.</li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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">requesting accommodations.</a>