Our purpose is to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.
We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect- AI Business Process to join our team. Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. This is a customer-facing role, owning the AI business process applications-focused technical & business relationships and the technical, functional and/or governance strategies between the customer and Microsoft, helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture, implementation and operational health engagements.
As a Cloud Solution Architect – AI Business Process, you will specialize in one of the following categories: Dynamics 365 and/or Power Platform depending on your experience. You will guide the development of business solutions, provide deep technical insights and accelerate the growth of Microsoft Technology priorities. You'll work closely with partners to understand their technical requirements and business objectives to guide them through architectural design sessions, developing proof of concepts, and transitioning from legacy systems to modern cloud environments, ensuring that their solutions are optimized for performance and cost-efficiency.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Customer Centricity
- Customer Satisfaction: Drive positive Customer Satisfaction and become a trusted advisor to customers by leveraging AI Business Process (Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and/or Copilot Studio) expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. You will actively listen and respectfully challenge to drive the best outcomes.
- Customer Insights: Provide feedback and insights from customers back to the relevant Microsoft teams to enable continuous improvement.
Business Impact
- Consumption & Usage growth: Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results by working with business and technical decision makers to ensure they understand Microsoft's AI Business Process value proposition to effectively drive usage and generate value from Microsoft technology investments via implementation advisory, performance efficiency, and organizational/operational excellence.
- Resolution of Customer Blockers: Identify resolutions to issues blocking go-live of customer success projects by leveraging deep knowledge of AI Business Process solutions and technical subject matter expertise. Lead the technical conversations with customers to drive value from their MS investments. Deliver all work according to Microsoft best practices and policies and using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP).
Technical Leadership
- Learn It All: Demonstrate Self Learner mindset through continuous alignment of individual skilling to team/area demands and Customer Success goals.
- Accelerate customer outcomes: Engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-use, and learn from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 2+ 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
Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role.
- 4+ years experience leading technical projects.
- Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
- 1+ year experience customizing, troubleshooting, and deploying Copilot Studio with one or more demonstratable production deployments
- 4+ years of experience customizing, tuning, troubleshooting, and deploying one or more of the following cloud-based systems:
- Dynamics 365 CE Solutions (Customer Service, Sales, and/or Field Service) and/or similar AI-powered CRM and ERP business applications
- Microsoft Power Platform (Model Driven Apps, Canvas Apps, Power Automate) with Dataverse and/or similar suite of low-code tools to create intelligent agents for business processes
Customer Success Account Mgmt IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $86,100 - $169,800 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 $113,300 - $187,400 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
Customer Success Account Mgmt 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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