Principal Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI

We are looking to hire a Principal Cloud Solution Architect to join Microsoft Federal.

Microsoft Federal delivers a single unified organization centered around our customers. This organization is a first-of-its-kind for Microsoft, bringing together expertise, knowledge, and insights across our teams. All critical customer functions are brought under the same organizational umbrella, bringing the breadth and depth of our expertise into razor-sharp focus on serving the U.S. Federal Government.  

We are committed to empowering our teams, building upon our strategic investments, and delivering the technology to achieve federal missions. As our customers pursue their work, from defending the nation, to serving its people in challenging times, they look to Microsoft to help them innovate, and they expect end-to-end engagement tailored to their needs.  We aspire to...  Deliver the best technology to enable mission-critical work  

Support fast-paced innovation with the U.S. Federal Government  

Drive focused, thoughtful, end-to-end delivery tailored to unique customer needs  

Continuously advance security processes within our long-standing engagement approach  

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ 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 

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI 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.

Cloud Screening: 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 or Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ 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, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

Cloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $129,200 - $248,800 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 $162,000 - $268,900 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   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 6, 2024

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Key responsibilities include:   

Understand customers’ overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions  

Apply technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, create roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key technologies where appropriate​  

Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment ​  

Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers and relevant business decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates  

Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Product/Engineering teams to remove key blockers ​  

Assess the Customers' knowledge of cloud platforms and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners. ​  

Collaborate with peers and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end enterprise solutions  

Maintain technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community while educating customers on Microsoft products and services ​  

Recognize, analyze, and take action on go to market approaches, joint value propositions, and business cases around strategic partnerships​  

Mentor, coach, and provide consistent feedback to a diverse team of engineers, train team members on design, best practices, and standardized operations procedures. ​  

Be an evangelist with customers, partners and external communities. 

Professional Experience​  

Good business acumen to quickly understand the customer’s industry and business to have relevant discussions with business decision makers.​  

Ability to understand customer business and provide thought leadership to the customer on how technology can aid the business processes​  

Ability to develop a joint “Business + Technology” architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations within federal government. 

Understanding of one or more domain areas of federal government (e.g. Healthcare, Financial etc.)​  

Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies Required ​  

Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Database administrators and Data Scientist) Required​  

Leadership experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support teams​  

Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication​  

Technical  

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management. required​  

The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend​  

Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms ​  

Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred​  

Technical – Cloud Solution Experience  

Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following cloud solutions required  

Cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers and Infra as a code technologies)​  

Cloud application development solutions (e.g. PaaS, Serverless, API Management)​  

Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry)​  

Big Data including SQL DW, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift​  

Advanced Analytics including Azure Data Bricks, visualization tools as PowerBI, Tableau​  

Machine Learning including Azure ML, ML Server​  

Artificial Intelligence including BOT framework, Cognitive Services, Cognitive Search ​  

Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode, WebSphere) targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds (i.e. Azure, AWS)​  

Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks etc.​