Microsoft

Enterprise Architect - Data Architecture

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

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in technical pre-sales or consulting; OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of experience; OR Master's Degree with 4+ years; OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years as a Solutions Architect with hands-on experience in Microsoft data products.
  • Expert knowledge of the Microsoft Data Platform covering design, integration, governance, compliance, and security.
  • Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect focusing on large-scale, complex solution design.
  • Strong consultative selling skills to provide strategic guidance to clients.
  • Experience in AI solution design, including hands-on building and deploying AI technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver customer workshops and technical engagements, including strategy and architecture design sessions.
  • Lead AI transformation initiatives by guiding clients on platform and technology trends.
  • Develop a strategic vision for AI initiatives, aligning with customer needs and organizational goals.
  • Design comprehensive solution architectures that meet customer requirements and ensure scalability.
  • Foster cross-platform collaboration to enhance technology integration within the cloud.
  • Maintain expertise in AI solutions and stay updated with market trends.
  • Shape Microsoft's programs through strategic change initiatives and asset creation.

Benefits

  • Work in a vibrant Microsoft Innovation Hub in Atlanta, GA.
  • Emphasis on team collaboration and alignment with stakeholders.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI transformation projects.
  • Opportunity to influence Microsoft's strategy and customer interactions.
  • Engagement with a broad range of advanced technologies and integrated solutions.
Full Job Description
Overview

As an Enterprise Architect - Data Architecture working on-site in the Microsoft Innovation Hub located in Atlanta, GA, 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

  • Delivering 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, ensuring 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 AI solutions that will include services like AI Foundry or Fabric Data platform. Develop skills in AI management and security, real-time intelligence, and application architecture to support AI transformation initiatives. Stay updated with the market trends and collaborate within 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.


  • Other
    • Embody our culture and values
  • 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

  • 5+ years' experience as a Solutions Architect (or equivalent) including deep practical and hands-on experience with Microsoft data products and services such as Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, AI Foundry, and Azure Purview.


  • Microsoft Data Platform Expert with extensive, hands-on experience across the entire Microsoft data estate. Adept at solution design, development, integration, governance, compliance, and security, this role drives operational excellence and responsible AI transformation through scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions.


  • 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. Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, adjacent technologies, architecture designs, migrations, and industry standards.


  • 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 and hands-on experience building and deploying AI. Experience with Copilot Studio, Large Language Models, prompt engineering, agentic architectures, responsible AI practices and familiarity with emerging industry standards such as MCP and A2A. Understanding of AI related Azure services.
  • Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines
  • Azure Certifications:


    • AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Associate or


  • DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or


  • DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate or


  • or other domain-relevant certifications from different vendors


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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