Principal Solution Architect, AI Transformation

Overview

Serve as the senior technical leader for the organization's most complex and strategically important AI transformations. You will partner with customer executives and Microsoft leadership to define multi-year transformation direction, align business and technology portfolios, and govern architecture across multiple programs and solution domains. You will anticipate systemic risks, resolve ambiguity, influence product and delivery strategy, and establish repeatable approaches that scale across customers and the broader organization.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we're dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

• Gather insights across executive and technical stakeholders and anticipate industry trends to shape long-term AI transformation strategy.
• Lead architecture and technical governance across multiple large, complex AI programs, platforms, and customer organizations.
• Build realistically costed solution approaches with traceability across requirements, constraints, decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
• Establish enterprise standards for secure agentic systems, data and knowledge grounding, evaluation, observability, resiliency, Responsible AI, and operational readiness.
• Translate business objectives into executable delivery strategies, technical roadmaps, and scalable solution architectures while managing risk, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
• Jointly lead implementation quality and governance across project, account, engineering, and customer teams.
• Anticipate and resolve critical business and technical blockers, orchestrating specialists and disparate teams into a durable plan of action.
• Act as the technical conscience for customers and Microsoft, influencing product roadmaps, reusable intellectual property, and industry thought leadership.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g. AI Engineering)

• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g. AI Engineering)

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years managing multiple, complex projects or portfolios.

• 2+ years experience leading blended, multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading highly complex enterprise architecture across multiple programs, platforms, customer stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Demonstrated executive influence, customer advocacy, risk governance, and resolution of complex escalations.
• Technical or Professional Certification in the relevant domain.
• Experience designing and implementing Generative AI and agentic AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, agentic frameworks, RAG architectures, and orchestration patterns.

Solution Architecture IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $140,500 - $268,800 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 $175,900 - $288,000 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.