Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Developer Experience (Digital Natives & ISVs)

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer 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' 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.

The Customer Advocacy's team mission is to incubate and scale innovative new business models and customer experiences. The team leverages adaptive leadership principles to drive large-scale change and transform business models across SME&C (Small, Medium Enterprises & Channel), Digital Natives & ISVs (Independent Software Vendors), Education, Public Sector, Health and Life Sciences and other industry-specific customer segments.
Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Developer Experience (Digital Natives & ISVs) provides senior technical leadership to earlystage, highengineering customers by guiding architectural decisions, improving developer workflows, and establishing scalable cloud and AI patterns that accelerate Azure alignment and developer productivity.

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.

EarlyStage Architectural Leadership

• Engage with highengineeringdensity Digital Native and ISV customers that meet Dev CoE criteria (early architectural lockin risk and developerexperience constraints).
• Serve as senior technical advisor to founders, CTOs, platform leaders, and Staff+ engineering stakeholders.
  Guide design of secure, scalable, AIenabled architectures using Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, cloudnative compute, and modern engineering practices.
• Lead design reviews, modernization discussions, and deep architectural evaluations that influence longterm technical direction.
• Remove early engineering blockers by coordinating subjectmatter experts and establishing clear architectural patterns.

Developer Experience & AI Thought Leadership

• Shape early developer workflows, tooling decisions, and AIassisted engineering practices within highvelocity teams.
• Drive adoption of Copilot, intelligent IDE workflows, and emerging agentic DevOps approaches.
• Align customer engineering strategies with Microsoft's platform roadmap, supporting informed technical decisions at critical early milestones.

Pattern Development & Global Field Scalability

• Translate recurring customer scenarios into reusable architecture patterns, templates, guides, and validated design scenarios.
• Contribute to global communities of practice across CSAs and developer engineering teams.
• Provide recurring, highquality product feedback to Azure, GitHub, and PG engineering based on earlystage customer use cases.
• Capture and distribute patterns that prevent repeated architectural pitfalls across Digital Native and ISV ecosystems.

Business Impact & Organizational Alignment

• Drive measurable customer impact through improved developer velocity, stronger architectural foundations, and early Azure alignment.
• Partner with accountaligned CSAs, CSAMs, AEs, and engineering teams to ensure cohesive customer engagement.
• Support FY27 Digital Native segmentation by enabling a consistent, repeatable earlystage engagement model.
• Maintain operational rigor across governance, delivery excellence, time tracking, and crossteam alignment.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Cloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 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 $165,600 - $272,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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