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Top Secret
$106,400 - $203,600
Unspecified
IT - Hardware
Saint Louis, MO (On-Site/Office)
Overview
Join Microsoft's US Public Sector Industries - Defense Industrial Base (DIB) team, where data, AI, mission impact, and innovation intersect. The Defense Industrial Base Operating Unit supports a complex and highly regulated ecosystem of commercial contractors across manufacturing, aviation, cybersecurity, and advanced technology-organizations that directly enable U.S. federal, defense, intelligence, and civilian agency missions.
The DIB team is responsible for consolidating and accelerating Microsoft's presence across this landscape by helping customers modernize legacy data platforms, unlock insights from complex data estates, and adopt cloud and AI solutions with confidence. We partner closely with customers operating in high-risk and compliance-driven environments to design and implement secure, resilient, and scalable data and analytics architectures that enable operational excellence, informed decision-making, and mission outcomes.
We are seeking a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) - Cloud & AI Data to serve as a trusted technical advisor for DIB customers. In this role, you will own the data and analytics architecture strategy and technical relationship with customers, helping them design, adopt, and operationalize modern data platforms and AI-enabled analytics on Microsoft Azure.
You will act as the voice of the customer within Microsoft-translating business, technical, and regulatory requirements into actionable Cloud & AI Data architectures, identifying and removing adoption blockers, and guiding customers through their data and AI transformation journey. Working across Microsoft teams and partners, you will leverage market insights and best practices to drive secure usage, consumption, and long-term customer success at scale.
This role operates within Microsoft's Customer Success model and may be considered for multiple like career stages within the Cloud Solution Architecture discipline.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We work with a growth mindset, lead with integrity, and foster an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives help our customers turn data into insight, insight into action, and technology into mission impact.
Responsibilities
Business Impact
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Other Requirements:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: - The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. -
Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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 requesting accommodations.
Join Microsoft's US Public Sector Industries - Defense Industrial Base (DIB) team, where data, AI, mission impact, and innovation intersect. The Defense Industrial Base Operating Unit supports a complex and highly regulated ecosystem of commercial contractors across manufacturing, aviation, cybersecurity, and advanced technology-organizations that directly enable U.S. federal, defense, intelligence, and civilian agency missions.
The DIB team is responsible for consolidating and accelerating Microsoft's presence across this landscape by helping customers modernize legacy data platforms, unlock insights from complex data estates, and adopt cloud and AI solutions with confidence. We partner closely with customers operating in high-risk and compliance-driven environments to design and implement secure, resilient, and scalable data and analytics architectures that enable operational excellence, informed decision-making, and mission outcomes.
We are seeking a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) - Cloud & AI Data to serve as a trusted technical advisor for DIB customers. In this role, you will own the data and analytics architecture strategy and technical relationship with customers, helping them design, adopt, and operationalize modern data platforms and AI-enabled analytics on Microsoft Azure.
You will act as the voice of the customer within Microsoft-translating business, technical, and regulatory requirements into actionable Cloud & AI Data architectures, identifying and removing adoption blockers, and guiding customers through their data and AI transformation journey. Working across Microsoft teams and partners, you will leverage market insights and best practices to drive secure usage, consumption, and long-term customer success at scale.
This role operates within Microsoft's Customer Success model and may be considered for multiple like career stages within the Cloud Solution Architecture discipline.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We work with a growth mindset, lead with integrity, and foster an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives help our customers turn data into insight, insight into action, and technology into mission impact.
Responsibilities
Business Impact
- Engage with customer stakeholders to understand data estates, priorities, and success measures, and design secure Cloud & AI Data solutions that deliver measurable business and mission value.
- Lead architecture design sessions, develop data and analytics roadmaps, and guide proofs of concept (POCs) and minimum viable products (MVPs) to accelerate adoption and ensure long-term technical viability.
- Deliver solutions aligned with Microsoft methodologies and best practices, ensuring production-ready, cost-optimized, resilient architectures.
- Expand consumption and usage of Azure data and AI services by aligning customer value with Microsoft platform capabilities in partnership with account teams.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, apply governance principles, and remove blockers to accelerate deployment, value realization, and adoption.
- Act as the voice of the customer by sharing insights, feedback, and adoption patterns with Microsoft Engineering and internal communities to influence continuous improvement.
- Translate customer data and AI challenges into architectures aligned with Microsoft strategy that deliver clear business value and return on investment.
- Build trusted relationships with technical and business decision makers, bridging alignment between data strategy, analytics, and AI adoption.
- Define customer conditions of success, anticipate adoption challenges, and execute strategies that improve customer confidence, experience, and value realization.
- Collaborate with Global Partner Solutions and field teams to identify and prioritize partner-led opportunities aligned to customer outcomes.
- Provide architectural guidance, technical validation, and support for repeatable offerings and scalable delivery models across data and analytics solutions.
- Maintain technical readiness across Azure data and analytics services, modern data platforms, and AI-enabled analytics aligned with Customer Success Unit priorities.
- Mentor peers through knowledge sharing, readiness activities, and dissemination of architectural patterns and best practices.
- Identify gaps across customer engagements and contribute improvements to architectures, intellectual property, frameworks, and methodologies.
- Participate in virtual teams and technical communities, sharing insights that strengthen Microsoft's Cloud & AI Data capabilities and customer outcomes.
- On-Site Requirement: Ability to work on site in St. Louis, MO, in support of classified customer mission needs.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or a related field AND 4+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, architecture, or consulting
OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: - The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. -
Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience engaging in business-value discussions with technical and business stakeholders in regulated or highly secure environments.
- Experience working in classified or restricted environments, including Special Access Programs (SAP).
- 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing role (internal and/or external).
- 4+ years of experience delivering, implementing, or supporting technical projects.
- Cloud or security certifications (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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 requesting accommodations.
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