47 Technical Architect jobs in Australia

**Introduction**
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) to join our team of expert consultants. As a CTA Consultant, you will work with clients to design, implement, and optimise their Salesforce ecosystems, providing technical leadership and expertise to drive business success
As a CTA in our Salesforce practice, you will lead the technical direction for Salesforce projects, leveraging your integration expertise to deliver tailored solutions that drive our clients' digital transformation. You'll serve as a technical authority, guiding both onshore and offshore teams, client technical teams, and internal stakeholders.
**Your role and responsibilities**
* Define and implement well-architected solutions, optimizing code ensuring robust integration solutions using advanced integration patterns to ensure seamless data flow across multiple enterprise systems.
* You will lead the technical aspect of salesforce.com implementations specific to: design, technical architecture, technical implementation and evaluate the overall technical design of salesforce.com and third party products.
· Understand client's business and offer technical solution to address leveraging salesforce.com platforms / offerings.
* Lead technical / functional discussions with the client and internal teams (design, build, test teams).
* Collaborate with global development teams, solution architects, and business analysts, providing expert guidance.
* Ensure security and compliance of integration solutions with industry best practices.
* Lead technical design sessions and code reviews, ensuring adherence to architecture standards.
* Drive developers to build optimised, scalable designs and manage the Salesforce development lifecycle effectively.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
* 5+ years of experience in Salesforce development and architecture
* Strong knowledge of Salesforce platform, including Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning
* Experience with Salesforce integration with third-party systems and APIs
* Strong leadership and communication skills
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines
* Deep technical knowledge in Salesforce Integration Architecture, including OmniStudio/Vlocity and Industry Cloud experience (ideally E&U).
* Strong hands on desire and proficiency in Salesforce Flow, LWC and APEX.
* Experience in recommending, configuring and leveraging a range of DevOps tools and processes.
* Proven track record as an SFDC Technical Architect in transformation programs.
* Experience managing both onshore and offshore development teams.
* Demonstrated understanding of Salesforce's role within overall architectural landscapes.
* Proficiency in Salesforce integration patterns, including middleware and ETL.
* Strong communication skills for stakeholder management.
· Ideally progressing towards (or holding) one or more of the Salesforce Architect certifications.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
Travel requirements
· Must be able to travel within a specified geographic region or nationally, as required based on business / client demand.
Security Clearance
Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance, as required by client
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Urgent requirement of Salesforce Technical Architect  - Contract - Sydney RequirementsGood experience in the Salesforce platform and Salesforce Developer/Admin, Solid experience of end-to-end Salesforce Solution Design, Development, Customization, Enhancements & Support on Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Force.com platform, and lightning10+ yrs of Experience in designing and developing software components and having a very strong Salesforce solution implementations and integration.5+ years of Experience in Salesforce (SFDC) with end-to-end implementation experience.Salesforce.com integration experience, including between different business systems as well as working with integration tools.Proficiency in programming using Salesforce SFDC, Force.com, Java, JavaScript, and XML, and their use in the development of CRM solutions.Strong experience with configuration, customization, programming with APEX APIs, APEX Triggers, and implementing new instances of Salesforce.com from scratch.Strong practical deployment knowledge of VisualForce, Flex, Salesforce configurations, Apex classes, APEX Web services, API, AppExchange deployment, and Salesforce.com s-controls. Must Have : Extensive Experience in Lightning AURA DevelopmentBuilt/Understand Lightning Web Component FrameworkStrong in Developing JavaScript componentsStrong in developing APEX classesExtensive Experience in Building APEX REST/SOAP APIsDemonstrate rationale of Low Code and Pro Code methodologySalesforce Certified - Platform Developer I and App BuilderExperience in Successful implementation & rolled out on various Salesforce modules for various customers globally. Experienced in designing solutions to automate or integrate Salesforce with 3rd party systems using either out-of-the-box features. Proficient in various Salesforce or 3rd party toolsGood to have :  Good experience of working & Collaborate with integrated teams, vendors senior leaderships & understanding their vision & project expectations Proficient in communicationDuration: 06 Months  and possible extension Eligibility:  Australian/NZ Citizens/PR Holders only Email:

**Position Summary:**
Technical Lead/Architect Role to gather business requirements from all required stakeholders and convert these into high level design and solution approaches to build or update system to meet customer needs.
**Mandatory Skills:**
· Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce Apex, LWC, Flows , Omni Studio , Data Migration and Integration
**Duties and Responsibilities:**
· Lead the planning and execution of Salesforce projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. - Oversee the implementation of Salesforce Health Cloud, optimizing healthcare processes and patient management. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop Salesforce solutions tailored to healthcare needs. - Provide technical guidance on Salesforce Flows and Apex, ensuring best practices and efficient workflows. - Manage project risks and issues, implementing mitigation strategies to ensure project success. - Coordinate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications. - Monitor project progress, providing regular updates to stakeholders and ensuring transparency. - Ensure quality assurance and testing of Salesforce solutions, maintaining high standards of delivery. - Facilitate training and support for end-users, enhancing their understanding and utilization of Salesforce tools. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging Salesforce capabilities to enhance healthcare services. - Foster a collaborative environment, encouraging knowledge sharing and innovation within the team. - Analyze project outcomes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing lessons learned. - Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations, maintaining data security and privacy.
**Salary Range:** >100,000
**Date of Posting:** 19/August/2025
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
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**Description**
**Solution Architect**
+ Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.
+ Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.
+ We're a 'Family Friendly' certified workplace - we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.
Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here Work That Matters**
Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world's toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.
**Your New Role and Responsibilities**
We have an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect for a maximum period of 6-months to support a multi-year Defence program in delivering an enterprise Health Knowledge Management (HKM) System to improve clinical decision-making for the ADF.
This role will look to comply with predetermined architectures and design to support the delivery of an enterprise Health Knowledge Management System that will provide market leading healthcare to Australian Defence Force personnel.
Key Responsibilities: -
+ Working collaboratively with the design team; including the Solution Lead, Systems Engineers, and Integration Developers in the delivery of the Health Knowledge Management System
+ Analyze functional and non-functional requirements for Health Care systems integration of Patient Care, Allied Health, Dental Care, Dispensing, Telemedicine and other specialist Health Care disciplines.
+ Participation in requirement elaboration workshops with Health Care vendors and Federal Government representatives
+ Produce solution design artefacts including but not limited to; Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and API schema to support Health Care systems integration
+ Supporting System Engineers to implement design artefacts and change review boards
+ Provide architecture guidance and support to System Engineers and Integration Developers, including support for verification and validation activities
What You'll Bring to Make An Impact
+ Extensive experience in software development and solution architecture, with strong background in designing complex integrated solutions.
+ Strong knowledge of health data protocols (HL7v2, FHIR) and data formats (JSON, XML).
+ Proven background in systems integration and API development.
+ Skilled in producing high-quality technical documentation.
+ Degree in engineering/ICT (or equivalent); TOGAF 9 and ITIL v3 certifications desirable.
Don't worry if you don't tick all the boxes - if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We're most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.
_This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold Baseline security clearance._
**Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose**
_Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase - Chief Executive, Leidos Australia._
Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.
**Next Steps**
+ To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.
+ Recruitment process - 1-2 interviews (depending on seniority of role) & background checks.
+ Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
+ We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team if you'd like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.
At Leidos, we don't want someone who "fits the mold"-we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, "what's next?" before the dust settles on "what's now."
If you're already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2. good. You'll fit right in.
**Original Posting:**
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
**Pay Range:**
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.

Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft's most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs.
Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers' digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI. We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.
The Solution Architect is responsible for translating the client's business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for very large complex technology solutions and architectures. You'll act as an advocate for the client as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems. You'll provide direction for design activities, often project-based, sometimes working at customer sites.
As a Solution Architect you'll gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects. You'll define and document the architecture to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach. Collaborating with the Project Manager you'll jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use. You'll work with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders to gather and ratify requirements and constraints and collaborating with the Account Team and/or Bid Team to understand the business solution/problem. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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**
+ Dynamics 365 Solution Architect responsible for providing technical expertise and leadership across Pre-Sales and Delivery.
+ Act as a mentor to delivery teams to help shape the solution and provide Quality assurance and guardrails to ensure successful delivery.
+ Evaluate client requirements and align solution to Microsoft D365 CE and Power Platform offerings.
+ Develop end-to-end solutions based on Dynamics 365 and Microsoft stack including identification of relevant technology components based on functional and non-functional requirements.
+ Develop high quality proposals, client presentations and demonstrations.
+ Develop and Harvest solution IP, assets/accelerators and support go-to-market activities.
+ Lead delivery engagements including planning and leading workshops.
+ Work closely with Microsoft internal stakeholders like STU, ATU, GBB, Fast Track leaders to develop and support Microsoft Business Applications growth plans across ANZ and Asia.
**Qualifications**
**Technical Skills Required**
+ Specialise in Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform with a good understanding of the overall Microsoft stack including basic Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, Azure and Microsoft 365.
+ Deep functional and technical knowledge of Dynamics 365 CE including Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Contact Centre, Field Service, Project Operations and Copilot.
+ Deep knowledge of Power Platform including Power Apps (Model Driven and Canvas), Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents.
+ A good understanding of Integration and Data migration platforms.
+ A good understanding of DevOps processes.
+ Demonstrated experience in the delivery of complex and large-scale applications based on Dynamics 365 CE.
+ Experience working in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile methodologies.
**Non-Technical Skills Required**
+ Excellent relationship building and influencing skills with the ability to engage with various stakeholders including internal, external and partner organisations.
+ Strong communication skills.
+ Ability to present complex ideas and solutions to various levels of internal and external stakeholders.
**Certifications**
+ Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant (PL-200)
+ Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect (PL-600)
+ Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Functional Consultant (MB-210
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

We are seeking a Solution Architect Open to :   Must be able to obtain baseline clearance Location : ACT, NSW, VIC, OffsiteIf successful you will travel to the office for 1-2 days to complete their onboarding. You will also be expected to travel to Canberra at least 4 times per year.Seeking an experienced Solution Architecture to work on a number of initiatives including uplifting customer experience, modernising IP Rights processing, enabling improved efficiency of our workforce and enhancing business agility by transitioning to hyper-scale cloud providers.Architect cloud solutions and document the solution design to enable communication with required stakeholders.Communicate solution designs to team members including business analysts and developers to enable solution delivery.Verify and validate solution implementation in accordance with solution designs.Contribute to adopting DevOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automation and cloud-native tools.Ensure compliance with relevant standards and architectural principles, compatibility with ICT target state and associated roadmaps.Participate in project planning activities. Requirements Essential criteria 1. Demonstrated experience in developing solutions using cloud services across the AWS stack, including but not limited to EC2, VPCs, Aurora, SNS, Kubernetes, API Gateway and Lambda Function.2. At least 4 years demonstrated experience working as a solution architect, producing quality outcomes in complex business and technical environments with demonstrated quality outcomes.3. Demonstrated ability to facilitate architecture decisions, working with business, architecture peers and technical staff.4. Demonstrated experience in producing solution designs covering application, information, integration, technology and security perspectives.5. Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to effectively manage and prioritise workloads. Desirable criteria 1. AWS Cloud certification or equivalent.2. Understanding core technologies which include AWS cloud native technologies, Java Enterprise Edition, PostgreSQL, SAP, M365, SharePoint Online, Power Apps and the supporting infrastructure including OpenShift, RHEL, NAS and network services.

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 Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.
The Cloud Solution Architecture role involves gathering customer insights, mapping architecture, and proposing digital transformation solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The role requires coaching team members to focus on customer experience through efficient delivery, driving adherence to Microsoft standards and recommended practices, and providing a holistic perspective of customer challenges and competitor architectures. The role is within the CSA Global Delivery team. It is a centralized group consisting of both full-time employees (FTEs) and Vendor CSAs dedicated to enhancing the customer's experience with Microsoft as they transition to hybrid/public cloud solutions. We achieve this by offering our customers value through adaptable and efficient delivery methods, all underpinned by standardized processes.
This role requires prior experience on virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V, Azure Stack and/or VMware solutions.
This role will require security clearance (which can be sponsored by Microsoft)
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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**
+ Gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, insights, and resources across internal teams to add and prioritize. Represents the customer/partner to internal teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory.
+ Advocates for the customer/partner at all opportunities and shares customer success stories with the wider internal team.
+ Guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Supports definition of customer/partner conditions of success. Anticipates customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs and executes strategies to improve experience, value realization, and acceleration of customer transformation.
+ Actively listens and respectfully challenges customers/partners when going in the wrong direction, presents insights and alternatives, and takes action appropriately.
**Business Impact**
+ Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations (e.g., by application of technical capabilities). Routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party. Applies broad business and technical knowledge across various architecture or other Microsoft solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. Shapes and enhances customers' requirements.
+ Proactively uses knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs. Contributes to increase in consumption and aligns with Customer Success Account Management or other Account Team members on customer/partner priorities to drive growth in consumption via cost optimization, operational excellence performance efficiency, and security. Drives architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer/partner usage and consumption.
+ Ensures that the customer/partner's application has as few points of failure as possible. Consults and provides thought leadership for technical solution design, development, and deployment and supports the customer/partner throughout implementation to achieve value outcomes and Microsoft's Customer Promise.
+ Understands industry trends and the competitor's architecture solutions and identifies Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with customers/partners and convince them of solution.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Demonstrate the capability to act as CSA Pod Lead with ability to drive planning and delivery of Pod team by engaging CSAM and ATU, manage customer relationship by conducting monthly engagement reviews and assuring quality and be accountable for capacity planning, hiring, skilling and utilization of Pod members.
+ Proactively develops technical and professional learning and development plan in alignment with and support from their manager. Role models effective technical readiness. Acts as a mentor and role model to less experienced colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical concepts. Participates in development opportunities (e.g., Ready, Build, Ignite).
+ Shares ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with the internal team.
+ Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners. Drives opportunities for IP reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration. Proactively identifies gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property (MIP), Design, and Governance). Applies subject matter expertise to develop new IP that fills identified gaps.
**Qualifications**
**Minimum required qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, 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, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting;
+ Prior experience on virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V, Azure Stack and/or VMware solutions.
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
+ Have potential to scale as CSA Pod Lead with ability to lead planning and delivery of vendor Pod team by engaging account team
+ Ability to manage customer relationship by conducting monthly engagement reviews and assuring quality and be accountable for capacity planning, hiring, skilling and utilization of Pod members
**Other requirements**
**This position requires verification of Australian citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports Australian government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.**
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

Microsoft has a dynamic and influential partner ecosystem that plays a critical role in driving growth and delivering successful outcomes for customers. The ecosystem includes a wide range of partners, from global strategic ISVs to industry-specific ISVs; global, regional, and local Systems Integration partners; Advisory firms and Microsoft Channel Partners. These partners bring a wealth of expertise, solutions, and services to the table, powered by the Microsoft Cloud, helping customers to achieve their digital transformation goals.
Microsoft's partner ecosystem is constantly evolving, with a focus on driving growth and profitability for Microsoft and our partners and successful business outcomes for customers. Microsoft makes significant investments into our partner ecosystem to ensure that we have a world class ecosystem partnering with us to drive mutual customer success. Now, more than ever, our partners are critical to our ability to help our customers transform leveraging the power of AI.
Microsoft Enterprise Partner Sales (EPS) is the commercial organization accountable for driving Microsoft's growth and success for Enterprise customers through our partner ecosystem. We define and execute our global partner ecosystem strategy, focused on the end-to-end partner lifecycle, such that together we can deliver our customers digital transformation goals.
As a Partner Solutions Architect, we are looking for you to bring your work ethic, enthusiasm, optimism, and passion to foster profound growth and change within our partner ecosystem. You will leverage your challenger mindset, technology industry knowledge, market insights, understanding of the competitive landscape, and best in class interpersonal skills to grow our robust ecosystem of world class partners enabling them to bring market-defining solutions to our customers.
**Responsibilities**
As a Partner Solution Architect (PSA), you will serve as the deep technical SME to a partners' technical teams, collaborating on product strategy plans, helping shape integrations and scaling with Microsoft Cloud and Commercial Marketplace. The core responsibilities are:
+ Guide Solution Development & Activation - You'll lead the development and activation of new or enhanced partner offerings and products that align with Microsoft Cloud priorities. Your focus will be ensuring these solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and tailored to meet evolving customer needs.
+ Empower Innovation - You'll run technical innovation workshops, tech briefings, and envisioning sessions to build technical intensity across partner teams. By collaborating with engineering and product teams, you'll help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies and shape partner offerings that align with both business goals and technical requirements.
+ Strategic Sales Enablement - You'll play a key role in activating transformational deals by providing architectural guidance, resolving technical blockers, and enhancing solution design. Your work will directly contribute to workload consumption and revenue impact.
+ Champion Technical Excellence - You'll guide partners through architecture design sessions, proof-of-concepts, and MVP builds. You'll ensure that solutions follow Microsoft's Cloud and AI best practices and are optimized for performance, scalability, and security.
+ Thought Leadership & Stakeholder Management - you'll build long-term engagements with strategic partners, influencing their adoption of Microsoft technologies. You'll develop deep technical relationships with CXOs and foster executive alignment to support joint success.
+ Partner Enablement & Business Acumen - You'll coach broader partner technical teams to ensure pre-sales, deployment, and consumption are embedded in solution development. You'll help partners build resilience to technical challenges, navigate competitive landscapes, and translate technical concepts into business value.
**Partner Centricity**
+ Develops and expands existing impactful relationships with customer and partner architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders (to the extent that the customer/partner will call for consultation without being prompted).
+ Provides direction to TDMs and builds the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Uncovers, aggregates, and synthesizes data about customer/partner business, complex technical requirements and issues (e.g., involving great length or tenacity to resolve), and various technical strategies being proposed.
+ Addresses requirements/issues/strategies with win-win technical architecture(s) and demonstrates and proves the capability and value of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
+ Acts as the voice of the partner by driving new feedback, insights, and resources across territories to add and prioritize.
+ Identifies and directs attention to multiple, strategic opportunities (e.g., launch deals) that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners.
+ Leads assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific, complex opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.
+ Understands and anticipates solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and proactively leads initiatives to address them by supporting, assembling, and leading a v-team.
+ Influences, challenges, and supports partners in developing scalable offerings, practices, products, and solutions, and investing and adopting new technologies at scale of the customer.
+ Maintains active visibility in solution area-specific communities both to build credibility in internal/partner work and information sharing (e.g., technical updates, public facing roadmap) and to influence partners.
+ Collaborates with internal stakeholders (e.g., engineering, sales) to provide field-based insights related to products/solutions related to functioning, pricing, implementation, and other areas.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Leads and may assemble virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.
+ Demonstrates industry knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings across internal teams.
+ Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas and drives changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers/partner. Drives consumption acceleration, as well as IP reuse and best practice sharing. Develops and contributes to the company stock of structured frameworks and methodologies.
+ Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property (MIP), Design, and Governance), and leveraging business experience to prioritize efforts.
**Qualifications**
**Required/minimum qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ 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 3+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ Proven experience in cloud architecture, solution design, and partner enablement, particularly in large-scale or global engagements
+ Demonstrated ability to lead technical innovation workshops, architecture reviews, and build-to-consume engagements with partners
+ 6-10+ years of related experience in technology IP solutions or services development, with a deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, and emerging cloud trends like generative AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) and SaaS (Software as a Service) services.
+ Strong background and in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies, with a focus on Microsoft's cloud offerings (Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365)
+ Minimum L300 knowledge of Kubernetes
+ Minimum L300 knowledge of DevOps and GitHub as a developer platform
+ Minimum L300 knowledge in application development with AI services
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, 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, 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 (e.g., internal and/or external)
+ 4+ years experience working on technical projects
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
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Microsoft has a dynamic and influential partner ecosystem that plays a critical role in driving growth and delivering successful outcomes for customers. The ecosystem includes a wide range of partners, from global strategic ISVs to industry-specific ISVs; global, regional, and local Systems Integration partners; Advisory firms and Microsoft Channel Partners. These partners bring a wealth of expertise, solutions, and services to the table, powered by the Microsoft Cloud, helping customers to achieve their digital transformation goals.
Microsoft's partner ecosystem is constantly evolving, with a focus on driving growth and profitability for Microsoft and our partners and successful business outcomes for customers. Microsoft makes significant investments into our partner ecosystem to ensure that we have a world class ecosystem partnering with us to drive mutual customer success. Now, more than ever, our partners are critical to our ability to help our customers transform leveraging the power of AI.
Microsoft Enterprise Partner Sales (EPS) is the commercial organization accountable for driving Microsoft's growth and success for Enterprise customers through our partner ecosystem. We define and execute our global partner ecosystem strategy, focused on the end-to-end partner lifecycle, such that together we can deliver our customers digital transformation goals.
As a Partner Solutions Architect, we are looking for you to bring your work ethic, enthusiasm, optimism, and passion to foster profound growth and change within our partner ecosystem. You will leverage your challenger mindset, technology industry knowledge, market insights, understanding of the competitive landscape, and best in class interpersonal skills to grow our robust ecosystem of world class partners enabling them to bring market-defining solutions to our customers.
**Responsibilities**
As a Partner Solution Architect (PSA), you will serve as the deep technical SME to a partners' technical teams, collaborating on product strategy plans, helping shape integrations and scaling with Microsoft Cloud and Commercial Marketplace. The core responsibilities are:
+ Guide Solution Development & Activation - You'll lead the development and activation of new or enhanced partner offerings and products that align with Microsoft Cloud priorities. Your focus will be ensuring these solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and tailored to meet evolving customer needs.
+ Empower Innovation - You'll run technical innovation workshops, tech briefings, and envisioning sessions to build technical intensity across partner teams. By collaborating with engineering and product teams, you'll help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies and shape partner offerings that align with both business goals and technical requirements.
+ Strategic Sales Enablement - You'll play a key role in activating transformational deals by providing architectural guidance, resolving technical blockers, and enhancing solution design. Your work will directly contribute to workload consumption and revenue impact.
+ Champion Technical Excellence - You'll guide partners through architecture design sessions, proof-of-concepts, and MVP builds. You'll ensure that solutions follow Microsoft's Cloud and AI best practices and are optimized for performance, scalability, and security.
+ Thought Leadership & Stakeholder Management - you'll build long-term engagements with strategic partners, influencing their adoption of Microsoft technologies. You'll develop deep technical relationships with CXOs and foster executive alignment to support joint success.
+ Partner Enablement & Business Acumen - You'll coach broader partner technical teams to ensure pre-sales, deployment, and consumption are embedded in solution development. You'll help partners build resilience to technical challenges, navigate competitive landscapes, and translate technical concepts into business value.
**Partner Centricity**
+ Develops and expands existing impactful relationships with customer and partner architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders (to the extent that the customer/partner will call for consultation without being prompted).
+ Provides direction to TDMs and builds the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Uncovers, aggregates, and synthesizes data about customer/partner business, complex technical requirements and issues (e.g., involving great length or tenacity to resolve), and various technical strategies being proposed.
+ Addresses requirements/issues/strategies with win-win technical architecture(s) and demonstrates and proves the capability and value of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
+ Acts as the voice of the partner by driving new feedback, insights, and resources across territories to add and prioritize.
+ Identifies and directs attention to multiple, strategic opportunities (e.g., launch deals) that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners.
+ Leads assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific, complex opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.
+ Understands and anticipates solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and proactively leads initiatives to address them by supporting, assembling, and leading a v-team.
+ Influences, challenges, and supports partners in developing scalable offerings, practices, products, and solutions, and investing and adopting new technologies at scale of the customer.
+ Maintains active visibility in solution area-specific communities both to build credibility in internal/partner work and information sharing (e.g., technical updates, public facing roadmap) and to influence partners.
+ Collaborates with internal stakeholders (e.g., engineering, sales) to provide field-based insights related to products/solutions related to functioning, pricing, implementation, and other areas.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Leads and may assemble virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.
+ Demonstrates industry knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings across internal teams.
+ Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas and drives changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers/partner. Drives consumption acceleration, as well as IP reuse and best practice sharing. Develops and contributes to the company stock of structured frameworks and methodologies.
+ Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property (MIP), Design, and Governance), and leveraging business experience to prioritize efforts.
**Qualifications**
**Required/minimum qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ 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 3+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ Proven experience in cloud architecture, solution design, and partner enablement, particularly in large-scale or global engagements
+ Demonstrated ability to lead technical innovation workshops, architecture reviews, and build-to-consume engagements with partners
+ 6-10+ years of related experience in technology IP solutions or services development, with a deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, and emerging cloud trends like generative AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) and SaaS (Software as a Service) services.
+ Strong background and in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies, with a focus on Microsoft's cloud offerings (Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365)
+ Minimum L300 knowledge of Kubernetes
+ Minimum L300 knowledge of DevOps and GitHub as a developer platform
+ Minimum L300 knowledge in application development with AI services
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, 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, 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 (e.g., internal and/or external)
+ 4+ years experience working on technical projects
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .