Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Developer Experience (Digital Natives & ISVs)

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
Location: US
Salary: $130,900–$251,900 / yr
Posted: 51 days ago
Nearby: 93 roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Developer Experience (Digital Natives & ISVs)

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As a Senior Cloud Solution Architect focusing on Developer Experience for Digital Natives & ISVs within the Customer Advocacy team, you will provide senior technical leadership to early-stage, high-engineering customers by guiding architectural decisions and improving developer workflows. Your day-to-day responsibilities include serving as a senior technical advisor to founders, CTOs, platform leaders, and engineering stakeholders, shaping early developer workflows with Copilot and intelligent IDEs, and driving the adoption of modern cloud-native practices like microservices, APIs, containers, CI/CD, and observability. You will also contribute to global communities of practice, provide feedback on Azure and GitHub products, and develop reusable architecture patterns to prevent common pitfalls in Digital Native ecosystems. This role requires expertise in AI/ML systems, vector search, RAG patterns, and a strong background in cloud-native engineering and DevOps practices.

Skills

Azure GitHub CI/CD DevOps AI ML Vector_search RAG_patterns Observability Microservices APIs Containers Terraform Python JavaScript C# Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Guide architectural decisions for high-engineering-density Digital Native and ISV customers.
Shape early developer workflows and tooling decisions using AI-assisted engineering practices.
Translate recurring customer scenarios into reusable architecture patterns and templates.
Drive adoption of Copilot and intelligent IDE workflows in high-velocity teams.
Provide feedback to Azure, GitHub, and PG engineering based on early-stage use cases.
Lead design reviews and modernization discussions influencing long-term technical direction.

What we're looking for

7+ years of cloud/infrastructure technologies experience or equivalent.
Strong hands-on expertise in AI/ML systems and modern agentic architecture approaches.
Proven ability to lead architectural strategy discussions and influence senior technical decision-makers.
Deep knowledge in cloud-native engineering, including microservices, APIs, containers, CI/CD, GitHub, DevOps, and observability practices.
Experience working directly with developers, platform teams, and engineering leadership.

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