Microsoft

Principal Cloud Solution Architecture Enterprise

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23 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$166k - $272k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Translate complex customer and partner problems into Microsoft-aligned industry solutions and cloud architectures.
  • Guide customers toward secure, resilient, AI-enabled, cost-optimized, and performance-optimized solutions.
  • Provide technical pre-sales support, proofs of concept, technical validation, advice, training, and adoption guidance.
  • Drive consumption, usage, unified expansion, solution utilization pipelines, and long-term customer value realization.
  • Partner with account, sales, engineering, product, and delivery teams to execute customer and partner strategies.
  • Identify and mitigate business and technical risks, blockers, governance issues, and deployment constraints.
  • Act as the voice of customers and partners by sharing feedback, insights, patterns, and business cases with Microsoft teams.
  • Lead, mentor, and assemble virtual teams while driving technical readiness, presentations, community engagement, and scalable intellectual property.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 7 years of experience in cloud or infrastructure technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting, or equivalent experience.
  • U.S. citizenship verification is required because the role supports U.S. government customers subject to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience, master's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: at least 6 years in a customer-facing role and at least 6 years leading technical projects.
  • Preferred: technical cloud certification, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, or security certifications.
  • Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

  • The position requires living within commuter distance of the Mountain View office.
  • The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $130,900-$251,900 per year; a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range is USD $165,600-$272,300 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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