Enterprise Architect - Application Development - St. Louis Innovation Hub

About the role

As an Enterprise Architect - Application Development working on-site in the Microsoft Innovation Hub located in St. Louis, MO, you’ll leverage your deep subject matter expertise in AI Foundry, GitHub/GitHub Copilot, CI/CD Pipelines, and Python (or other development language) to translate complex business processes into design systems that provide meaningful business value for customers. 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. This role is 100% Microsoft onsite only.

Responsibilities

• Delivering customer engagements: 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. Prioritize AI use cases through design thinking workshops and lead these journeys effectively. Contribute 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 tied to customer requirements, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and optimized for performance. Utilize consultation skills to uncover and prioritize opportunities, ensuring solutions address 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. Work with peers and stakeholders to make the Innovation Hub the home of Cross-Solution AI Transformation.
• Technical Depth: Maintain and grow expertise in AI solutions, including 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 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.
• Embody our culture and values: Uphold Microsoft’s mission and values, fostering a culture of respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

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.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications (PQs):

• 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, networking, adjacent technologies, architecture designs, migrations, and industry standards. Understanding of AI-related Azure services. Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines.
• Design Thinking: Proven experience delivering design thinking, ideation, or similar context analysis/problem framing.
• Highly proficient in GitHub, CI/CD, and DevOps automation.
• Proficiency in Python or other equivalent programming language.
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry and Agentic AI development.

Pay

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.

Schedule

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. This role is 100% Microsoft onsite only.