45 Technical Architecture jobs in Australia

PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Melbourne, Victoria Lumen

Posted 16 days ago

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**About Lumen**
Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications - quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up - committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.
We're looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.
**The Role**
We are seeking a seasoned and visionary Enterprise Architect to join our growing Strategic Pursuit team in the APAC region. This is a high-impact, customer-facing role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic business insight. You will act as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders, helping them align technology investments with business outcomes and transformation goals.
As a recognized expert and thought leader in digital transformation, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and networking, you will lead discovery workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and requirements analysis to uncover unique customer needs and define tailored solutions. Your ability to map technology to business goals and present confidently to executive audiences will be critical to success.
This role will collaborate closely across Lumen's Sales and Product organizations to identify strategic target accounts, map out key stakeholders in those target accounts to build the relationship, understand their business challenges and define the fit-for-purpose solution.
**The Main Responsibilities**
**Strategic Engagement & Solution Leadership**
+ Lead executive-level conversations with customers to understand their business priorities, challenges, transformation objectives and to identify their 'problem statement'.
+ Design and articulate end-to-end architectures that span infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, and application domains.
+ Facilitate discovery workshops, technical deep dives, and lead whiteboarding sessions to uncover customer needs and define tailored solutions.
+ Build long-term relationships with key stakeholders by demonstrating thought leadership, credibility, and a deep understanding of industry trends.
+ Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to shape strategic pursuits and influence product direction.
+ Represent the organization at industry events, panels, and executive briefings to share insights and best practices.
**P** **re-Sales Support**
+ Provide strategic and expert technical guidance to the sales team in qualifying complex opportunities and developing winning proposals.
+ Conduct solution demonstrations and technical deep dives for strategic prospective customers.
+ Lead the development of complex solution architectures and proposals for strategic pursuits.
+ Collaborate with internal engineering, product, and delivery teams to ensure seamless solution implementation.
**Me** **ntorship & Training**
+ Mentor and coach junior members of the pre-sales and solution architecture teams.
+ Develop and deliver training programs to enhance the technical skills and knowledge of the team.
**Strategic I** **nitiatives**
+ Contribute to the development of the pre-sales strategy and roadmap.
+ Identify and evaluate new technologies and market opportunities.
+ Build and maintain relationships with key technology partners.
**In** **fluencer & Regional Advocate**
+ Represent the APAC region as an influencer and thought leader within the global solution architecture and product management community.
+ Collaborate with global counterparts to share best practices, insights, and lessons learned.
+ Advocate for the needs and interests of the APAC region within the global organization.
+ Replicate successes across the Route-to-Market (RTM) channels.
**What We Look For in a Candidate**
+ 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution consulting, or technical pre-sales roles.
+ Proven ability to engage and influence C-level executives and senior business stakeholders.
+ Strong business acumen with the ability to map technology capabilities to business outcomes.
+ Deep expertise in infrastructure design, cloud computing, cybersecurity, networking, application architecture, and managed services.
+ Familiarity with ITIL or ITSM frameworks and operational models.
+ Experience working with, or designing for Security Operations Centers (SOC), including threat detection, incident response, and security monitoring.
+ Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
+ Experience working in or with large enterprises across APAC markets.
+ Familiarity with digital transformation frameworks and enterprise architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman)
+ Proven track record of success in driving revenue growth and closing complex deals.
+ Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
+ Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
+ Industry certifications relevant to the area of expertise (e.g., CISSP, Cisco CCIE, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc.) are highly desirable.
**Preferred Attributes:**
+ Experience in strategic pursuits or complex deal shaping.
+ Background in consulting or advisory roles.
+ Multilingual capabilities and cultural fluency across APAC markets.
**Compensation**
**What to Expect Next**
Requisition #:
**Background Screening**
If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. For more information on these checks, please refer to the Post Offer section of our FAQ page ( . Job-related concerns identified during the background screening may disqualify you from the new position or your current role. Background results will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
**Equal Employment Opportunities**
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, "protected statuses"). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
**Disclaimer**
The job responsibilities described above indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities for this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on evolving business needs and conditions.
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Please be advised that Lumen does not require any form of payment from job applicants during the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings will be posted on our official website or communicated through official company email addresses. If you encounter any job offers that request payment in exchange for employment at Lumen, they are not for employment with us, but may relate to another company with a similar name.
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PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Sydney, New South Wales Lumen

Posted 16 days ago

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**About Lumen**
Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications - quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up - committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.
We're looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.
**The Role**
We are seeking a seasoned and visionary Enterprise Architect to join our growing Strategic Pursuit team in the APAC region. This is a high-impact, customer-facing role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic business insight. You will act as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders, helping them align technology investments with business outcomes and transformation goals.
As a recognized expert and thought leader in digital transformation, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and networking, you will lead discovery workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and requirements analysis to uncover unique customer needs and define tailored solutions. Your ability to map technology to business goals and present confidently to executive audiences will be critical to success.
This role will collaborate closely across Lumen's Sales and Product organizations to identify strategic target accounts, map out key stakeholders in those target accounts to build the relationship, understand their business challenges and define the fit-for-purpose solution.
**The Main Responsibilities**
**Strategic Engagement & Solution Leadership**
+ Lead executive-level conversations with customers to understand their business priorities, challenges, transformation objectives and to identify their 'problem statement'.
+ Design and articulate end-to-end architectures that span infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, and application domains.
+ Facilitate discovery workshops, technical deep dives, and lead whiteboarding sessions to uncover customer needs and define tailored solutions.
+ Build long-term relationships with key stakeholders by demonstrating thought leadership, credibility, and a deep understanding of industry trends.
+ Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to shape strategic pursuits and influence product direction.
+ Represent the organization at industry events, panels, and executive briefings to share insights and best practices.
**P** **re-Sales Support**
+ Provide strategic and expert technical guidance to the sales team in qualifying complex opportunities and developing winning proposals.
+ Conduct solution demonstrations and technical deep dives for strategic prospective customers.
+ Lead the development of complex solution architectures and proposals for strategic pursuits.
+ Collaborate with internal engineering, product, and delivery teams to ensure seamless solution implementation.
**Me** **ntorship & Training**
+ Mentor and coach junior members of the pre-sales and solution architecture teams.
+ Develop and deliver training programs to enhance the technical skills and knowledge of the team.
**Strategic I** **nitiatives**
+ Contribute to the development of the pre-sales strategy and roadmap.
+ Identify and evaluate new technologies and market opportunities.
+ Build and maintain relationships with key technology partners.
**In** **fluencer & Regional Advocate**
+ Represent the APAC region as an influencer and thought leader within the global solution architecture and product management community.
+ Collaborate with global counterparts to share best practices, insights, and lessons learned.
+ Advocate for the needs and interests of the APAC region within the global organization.
+ Replicate successes across the Route-to-Market (RTM) channels.
**What We Look For in a Candidate**
+ 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution consulting, or technical pre-sales roles.
+ Proven ability to engage and influence C-level executives and senior business stakeholders.
+ Strong business acumen with the ability to map technology capabilities to business outcomes.
+ Deep expertise in infrastructure design, cloud computing, cybersecurity, networking, application architecture, and managed services.
+ Familiarity with ITIL or ITSM frameworks and operational models.
+ Experience working with, or designing for Security Operations Centers (SOC), including threat detection, incident response, and security monitoring.
+ Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
+ Experience working in or with large enterprises across APAC markets.
+ Familiarity with digital transformation frameworks and enterprise architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman)
+ Proven track record of success in driving revenue growth and closing complex deals.
+ Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
+ Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
+ Industry certifications relevant to the area of expertise (e.g., CISSP, Cisco CCIE, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc.) are highly desirable.
**Preferred Attributes:**
+ Experience in strategic pursuits or complex deal shaping.
+ Background in consulting or advisory roles.
+ Multilingual capabilities and cultural fluency across APAC markets.
**Compensation**
**What to Expect Next**
Requisition #:
**Background Screening**
If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. For more information on these checks, please refer to the Post Offer section of our FAQ page ( . Job-related concerns identified during the background screening may disqualify you from the new position or your current role. Background results will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
**Equal Employment Opportunities**
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, "protected statuses"). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
**Disclaimer**
The job responsibilities described above indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities for this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on evolving business needs and conditions.
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Please be advised that Lumen does not require any form of payment from job applicants during the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings will be posted on our official website or communicated through official company email addresses. If you encounter any job offers that request payment in exchange for employment at Lumen, they are not for employment with us, but may relate to another company with a similar name.
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Enterprise Architect - BTA - COE

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory SAP

Posted 16 days ago

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**We help the world run better**
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging - but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
**Lead the Future of ERP Migrations - Join Our Centre of Excellence**
Are you passionate about the power of the cloud? Are you ready to help Australia's public sector unlock greater efficiency and productivity through smarter ERP migrations?
Join SAP and lead a bold new initiative that's redefining how key government agencies move to the cloud.
With the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Federal Australian Agencies we're building a high-performance team to guide major agencies through the how of ERP migration - with proven strategy, expert delivery, and scalable, lasting impact.
Initially, an 18-month transformation program, this high-profile, strategic initiative will be the successful candidate's initial assignment, before transitioning into the broader Customer Success and Delivery area to extend the best practices and knowledge gained there.
This is your chance to set new industry benchmarks and drive real transformation where it matters most.
Please note - This role is base in Canberra and given the role works with Australian Public Sector - Australian Citizens with the capability to secure and maintain government security clearance are preferred.
**About the Role:**
The Enterprise architect works closely with SAP's Sales organization and the Partner ecosystem to define the account strategy. They are responsible for bridging the gap between the customer's business strategy and relevant solutions through crafting the to-be business and solution architectures and designing a transformation roadmap at the enterprise level to facilitate the customer's adoption of Cloud-based architectures. They are trusted advisors for the customer to achieve their desired to-be SAP-based Enterprise Architecture.
**Key Responsibilities:**
As an Enterprise Architect, you will focus on the following key areas:
  **Account Planning & Architecture Management Responsibilities**
+ Support the assessment of current customer solutions from SAP and potential areas of opportunity for faster solution adoption & consumption, as well as SAP Business Suite footprint expansion.
+ Engage with customers to support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team.
+ Drive business and IT architecture definitions to ensure consistency, cooperation, and alignment with SAP organizations, the customer, and partners.
+ Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.
**Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer**
+ Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership and innovation positioning.
+ Understand customer's business process map and business model with industry reference architecture focus.
+ Understand customer's current enterprise landscape and future needs.
+ Drive the positioning of standard cloud architectures (plug & play) leveraging standard cloud solutions.
+ Actively develop Road-maps to help customers plan their transition to SAP's cloud solutions
**Building Key Customer Architecture Deliverables: Business & Solution Architecture, Target State, Transformation Roadmap**
+ Drive business architecture and capability mapping to solution design.
+ Ensure IT feasibility of the business capabilities mapping to SAP solution architecture.
+ Support customer cloud transformation roadmap definition (business and application focus).
+ Drive customer cloud/hybrid transformation roadmap definition (standard cloud application and technology focus).
**Being a Trusted Architecture Advisor for the Customer**
+ Align living roadmap with current adoption/solution consumption.
+ Support living roadmap governance & adaptation based on evolution of customer needs and SAP solutions.
+ Drive solution expansion by highlighting value & linkages to the broader SAP Portfolio
+ Contribute architectural input into development of Value based business cases
**Experience:**
+ Considerable experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Advisor and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, Sales, Presales, Adoption/Consumption, Consulting or Business Development, demonstrating successful outcomes over multiple years. 
+ Represent SAP as the trusted advisor within SAP and/or the market. 
+ Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
+ Proven professional networks in the market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
+ Proven track record of success in the Public Sector area, if required.
+ Proven leadership and project management experience.
+ Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
+ Fluency in English; any other language is an asset.
+ Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.
+ Togaf or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using EAM tools is an added value for candidates
**Bring out your best**
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
**We win with inclusion**
SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team:
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program ( , according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
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For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process ( .
Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.
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Solution Architect

Scoresby, Victoria Leidos

Posted 16 days ago

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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.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
**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.
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Solution Architect

2601 Acton, Australian Capital Territory PowerData Group Consulting

Posted 586 days ago

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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.
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Cloud Solution Architect

Sydney, New South Wales Microsoft Corporation

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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 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 Cloud and AI Platform CSA team which is dedicated to enhancing the customer's experience with Microsoft's Cloud and AI services as they transition to cloud solutions. We achieve this by offering our customers value through adaptable and efficient delivery methods, all underpinned by standardized processes.
We are hiring a senior-level Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focused on Application Innovation to lead customer engagements across Azure App Services, Containers, DevOps, and AI-powered applications. This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives on solving complex challenges and driving digital transformation at scale.
**Responsibilities**
**Role Expectations:**
+ Operates independently on complex customer engagements.
+ Applies technical knowledge to resolve customer challenges and drive solution adoption.
+ Contributes to design, build, and deployment of PoCs and pilots for AI applications.
+ Acts as a trusted advisor, demonstrating Microsoft's differentiated value proposition
**Customer Centricity**
+ Engage customers to understand business needs and technical requirements for AI application scenarios.
+ Architect and deliver solutions using Azure AI services and application innovation workloads.
+ Lead technical discussions, workshops, and proof-of-concept (PoC) engagements to demonstrate the value of Microsoft AI technologies.
+ Build trusted relationships with technical and business stakeholders and act as a customer advocate for Microsoft.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Architect and deliver solutions using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, App Services, and GitHub Copilot.
+ Design and implement scalable, secure, robust AI application architectures using Azure-native services.
+ Guide customers through DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software development.
+ Contribute to internal communities and mentor junior CSAs.
**Business Impact**
+ Drive adoption of Azure AI App Innovation workloads, supporting milestone delivery and usage acceleration.
+ Influence partner and engineering teams to scale impact and remove blockers.
+ Influence partner and engineering teams to remove blockers and scale impact.
**Qualifications**
**Required**
+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
+ 3+ years experience in application architecture, cloud-native development, or consulting.
+ Hands-on experience with Azure AI services, Azure App Services, and DevOps practices.
**Preferred**
+ Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).
+ Experience with AI application frameworks (Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry).
+ Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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 ( .
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Cloud Solution Architect

Perth, Western Australia Microsoft Corporation

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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 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 Cloud and AI Platform CSA team which is dedicated to enhancing the customer's experience with Microsoft's Cloud and AI services as they transition to cloud solutions. We achieve this by offering our customers value through adaptable and efficient delivery methods, all underpinned by standardized processes.
We are hiring a senior-level Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focused on Application Innovation to lead customer engagements across Azure App Services, Containers, DevOps, and AI-powered applications. This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives on solving complex challenges and driving digital transformation at scale.
**Responsibilities**
**Role Expectations:**
+ Operates independently on complex customer engagements.
+ Applies technical knowledge to resolve customer challenges and drive solution adoption.
+ Contributes to design, build, and deployment of PoCs and pilots for AI applications.
+ Acts as a trusted advisor, demonstrating Microsoft's differentiated value proposition
**Customer Centricity**
+ Engage customers to understand business needs and technical requirements for AI application scenarios.
+ Architect and deliver solutions using Azure AI services and application innovation workloads.
+ Lead technical discussions, workshops, and proof-of-concept (PoC) engagements to demonstrate the value of Microsoft AI technologies.
+ Build trusted relationships with technical and business stakeholders and act as a customer advocate for Microsoft.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Architect and deliver solutions using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, App Services, and GitHub Copilot.
+ Design and implement scalable, secure, robust AI application architectures using Azure-native services.
+ Guide customers through DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software development.
+ Contribute to internal communities and mentor junior CSAs.
**Business Impact**
+ Drive adoption of Azure AI App Innovation workloads, supporting milestone delivery and usage acceleration.
+ Influence partner and engineering teams to scale impact and remove blockers.
+ Influence partner and engineering teams to remove blockers and scale impact.
**Qualifications**
**Required**
+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
+ 3+ years experience in application architecture, cloud-native development, or consulting.
+ Hands-on experience with Azure AI services, Azure App Services, and DevOps practices.
**Preferred**
+ Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).
+ Experience with AI application frameworks (Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry).
+ Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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 ( .
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Partner Solution Architect

Melbourne, Victoria Microsoft Corporation

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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 ( .
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Partner Solution Architect

Brisbane, Queensland Microsoft Corporation

Posted 16 days ago

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Job Description

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 ( .
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Partner Solution Architect

Sydney, New South Wales Microsoft Corporation

Posted 16 days ago

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Job Description

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 ( .
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