Principal Cloud Solution Architect, AI Data, Partner Solutions

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success organization is on a mission to empower customers and partners to accelerate business value through differentiated 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’ and partners’ 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.   We are looking for a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect aligned to Microsoft's Partner Solutions Architecture (PSA) team. In this role you will drive partner‑led AI adoption by enabling partners to design, build, and scale responsible AI‑powered solutions on Microsoft Cloud, Azure ML, and AI platforms. The focus is on helping partners translate AI capabilities into secure, scalable, and outcome‑based offerings, including agentic solutions, copilots, and AI‑powered applications that integrate with customer and partner data, business processes, and existing systems aligned with measurable business impact.   The AI‑focused PSA serves as the technical AI authority for partners, guiding solution architecture, extensibility, governance, and readiness to deliver differentiated business outcomes using Microsoft’s AI platform.

What You’ll Do Enable partners to design and build Machine Learning, AI, agentic, and Copilot‑based solutions using Microsoft Azure AI and ML platforms Provide architecture guidance, best practices, and hands‑on technical enablement across Azure ML and AI workloads Help partners address gaps in solution design, readiness, governance, observability, guardrails, security, and Responsible AI Support the evolution from traditional applications to AI‑ and ML-driven, agent‑based, and conversational experiences Build working prototypes and reference implementations to accelerate partner solution development Advise partners on AI and Azure ML cost architecture and consumption economics, including token-based pricing models, provisioned throughput planning, and model selection for cost and performance optimization Deliver strategic business and technical AI and ML transformation discussions to enable and accelerate partners on their Frontier journey Guide partners in creating repeatable, transactable, outcome‑based AI offerings, not one‑off projects   Why This Role Matters As AI rapidly reshapes how customers build software and run their businesses, this role sits at the center of Microsoft’s partner‑led AI scale strategy. You help partners move from experimentation to production, from demos to durable offerings, and from technology delivery to measurable business impact, accelerating customer success and Microsoft AI adoption at scale.

Required/Minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.   Preferred/Additional Qualification Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT)