Microsoft

AI Business Applications Enterprise Architect

Microsoft$130K — $251K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of technical pre-sales or consulting experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 15+ years of experience in technologies like Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform is preferred.
  • Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect with large-scale solution implementation.
  • Consultative selling experience, guiding customers through complex technical landscapes.
  • Expertise in AI solution design and cloud/hybrid infrastructure.
  • Certification in relevant technologies is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience in design thinking and strategic facilitation.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver engaging customer workshops to validate technology options and minimize risks.
  • Lead AI transformation initiatives by prioritizing use cases and guiding customers.
  • Own strategic vision for AI transformational projects to align with customer goals.
  • Develop secure and scalable solution architectures that meet customer needs.
  • Integrate capabilities across cloud platforms for cross-functional collaboration.
  • Maintain expertise in business applications to support AI initiatives.
  • Act as a change agent connecting technical solutions with sales opportunities.

Benefits

  • Work on-site at the Microsoft Innovation Hub in Houston, TX.
  • Opportunity to solve complex business challenges across various industries.
  • Collaborate with a diverse team of technical resources and stakeholders.
  • Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and applications.
Full Job Description
Overview

As an AI Business Applications Enterprise Architect working on-site in the Microsoft Innovation Hub located in Houston, TX, you'll leverage your deep subject matter expertise in Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse to translate complex business processes into design systems that provide meaningful business value for customers. You'll uncover the economics of your customers' business, regulatory environment, and competitive differentiation and guide them to a solution using cutting edge AI business applications. This opportunity will allow you to work with many different customers, across many industries and enable you to utilize and hone your consultative skill set all while working on some of the most interesting customer challenges at Microsoft.

As a AI Business Applications Enterprise Architect in the Microsoft Innovation Hub, you will merge business and technical requirements to craft comprehensive solutions, working seamlessly with various stakeholders. You will conduct discovery sessions to understand customer needs and provide strategic recommendations and best practices tailored to their specific needs. Implementing robust AI transformation solutions and optimizing the integration of various technologies and services will be key aspects of your role. Additionally, you will leverage consultancy skills to foster collaboration among technical resources and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and effective teamwork.

Responsibilities

Deliver customer workshops: Prepare and deliver technical engagements including strategy sessions, envisioning workshops, architecture design sessions and rapid prototyping to demonstrate key capabilities, validate against identified risks and finalize technology choices.

AI Transformation Leadership: Be the trusted voice within the business and for customers on the latest AI platform and technology trends, guiding their transformation journeys. By prioritizing AI use cases through design thinking workshops, you will lead these journeys effectively. You will be a valued contributor to Microsoft's strategy in your area, ensuring the Hub is proactively aligned with the right customers to drive real impact.

Strategic Vision and Planning: Own and execute a clear strategic vision for AI transformation initiatives on a set of targeted accounts, aligning with organizational goals and customer needs by collaborating and orchestrating cross-functional teams.

Solution Design and Architecture: Develop comprehensive solution architectures based on patterns and practices that are tied to customer requirements and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure and optimized for performance. By utilizing consultation skills, you will uncover and prioritize opportunities, ensuing solutions are addressing real customer needs.

Cross Platform Collaboration: Adopt a holistic approach to integrate capabilities across the entire cloud platform, identifying synergies and optimizing cross-platform integration. You will work with your peers and stakeholders to make the Innovation Hub the home of Cross Solution AI Transformation.

Technical Depth: Maintain and grow expertise in creating business value on top of the business applications including sales, services and marketing and Microsoft 365 platform to support AI transformation initiatives. Stay updated with the market trends and collaborate with the technical communities.

Technical Sales and Sales Leadership: Act as a strategic change agent within the business to shape Microsoft's programs and engineering offerings. Lead the creation of scalable, field-relevant assets through internal communities. Champion Hub engagement success by connecting technical capabilities to sales opportunities and serving as a trusted voice with sales leaders and account teams.

This role is 100% Microsoft onsite only.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR equivalent experience

Other Requirements

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 15+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience in any of the following technologies: Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse consulting experience
  • Enterprise Architect Experience: Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, designing and implementing large-scale, complex solutions that align with business goals and technical requirements. Ability to integrate various technologies and platforms to create cohesive and scalable architectures.


  • Consultative Selling: Proven experience in a consultancy role, providing expert guidance and strategic recommendations to customers. Ability to navigate complex technical landscapes and deliver tailored solutions that meet specific customer needs.


  • Strategic & Structured Facilitator: Validated customer experience in requirements capture; prioritization; capturing evidence and impact to quantify business value; issue, risk and constraint identification with a focus on strategic goals and outcomes.


  • AI Solution Design Experience: Expertise in designing architectures, building, and deploying AI solutions. Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, adjacent technologies, architecture designs, migrations, and industry standards. Understanding of AI related Azure services.


  • Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines


  • Design Thinking: Proven experience of delivering design thinking; 'ideation'; or similar context analysis / problem framing.


Solution Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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