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As a Cloud Solution Architect - Copilot/AI Business Solutions - CTJ - Poly within the CE&S team, you will drive AI transformation for customers by modernizing messaging environments. You will leverage deep Exchange expertise across on-premises Exchange Server and Exchange Online to help customers govern hybrid and cloud deployments. Your daily responsibilities include assessing readiness across identity, data security, and governance, while designing adoption and change management plans for unclassified and classified environments. You will build expertise in agentic AI and Copilot Studio, using prompt engineering and agent-building skills to drive AI at scale. You will lead architectural designs for Copilot Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot, translating complex customer challenges into actionable solutions. Required skills include cloud infrastructure technologies, systems administration, and technical consulting experience.
Assess customer readiness across identity, data security, and governance for AI adoption.
Design adoption and change management plans for customers moving to Copilot and agentic AI.
Lead architectural designs to enable sustained usage of Copilot Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot.
Use prompt engineering and agent-building expertise to drive AI transformation at scale.
Translate customer challenges into actionable solutions aligned to high ROI outcomes.
Partner with sales teams to identify growth opportunities and develop tailored expansion solutions.
Share expertise in relevant communities to contribute to IP creation and re-use.
Provide technical advisory to senior customer leaders on hybrid and cloud messaging environments.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure, IT consulting, systems administration, or architecture.
Master's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure, technology solutions, practice development, or architecture.
4+ years of experience in a customer-facing role.
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
Verification of U.S. citizenship.
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google) or security certifications (preferred).
Experience in a customer-facing advisory role leading workshops, adoption plans, and change management with business and technical decision makers.
Deep expertise in on-premises Exchange Server and Exchange Online.
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