2 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +4 moreSenior
Base Salary
$106k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Guide the development and activation of scalable, secure partner offerings aligned with Microsoft Cloud priorities.
- Lead architecture design sessions, technical workshops, proof-of-concepts, MVP builds, and solution envisioning activities.
- Provide architectural guidance, resolve technical blockers, and enable transformational partner sales opportunities.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to drive adoption of emerging technologies and shape partner solutions.
- Build long-term technical relationships with strategic partners and executive stakeholders.
- Track and report impact using Microsoft internal tools and contribute reusable patterns, publications, and community knowledge.
- Identify opportunities and drive repeatable technical business development motions that accelerate growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or a related field plus 4+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree plus 12+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree plus 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in technology IP solution development, application modernization, cloud architecture, and AI Apps technologies.
- Experience with Kubernetes, DevOps, GitHub, secure application development, AI services, full-stack applications, APIs, distributed cloud-native solutions, and public cloud environments.
- 6+ years of experience in a partner-facing role.
- 6+ years of experience architecting and deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions and scalable AI platforms integrating data, applications, security, and governance.
- Hands-on software development experience with modern programming languages, application frameworks, containerized environments, and cloud-native architectures.
- Technical certification in Cloud, AI, and/or Security, such as Microsoft Azure, GitHub, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud.
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.