Cloud Solution Architect - ATO - CTJ - TS/SCI

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all-up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.         

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment – Civilian, Defense, or Intelligence community.    

We are looking for an energic self-starter that can perform, and review technical security assessments of cloud computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established IA standards and regulations and recommended mitigation strategies. Be passionate about ensuring the security of multiple organization's classified and unclassified cloud information systems. Development of IT security policies and standards for multiple federal agencies. Be able to work with other teams across the organization to gain an in-depth understanding of system architectures and cloud system configurations. Be a passionate and open communicator with taking complex concepts and tailoring them to the audiences from engineers to executive leadership.    

The ideal candidate will have advanced experience in the federal Authority to Operate (ATO) and FedRAMP process, with a minimum of 8 years of experience. Able to guide customers through a seamless accreditation process using experience, tools, and effective communication of cloud security posture. In depth understanding of artifact creation, eMASS, Xacta, POA&M as well as creation and validation of SSP creation for unique mission applications.       

The ideal candidate will have a passion for the customer, which is demonstrated through professionalism. The role requires an individual, who can thrive in ambiguity, is self-motivated, resourceful, confident under pressure, and has demonstrated skilled expectation management. Ability to pivot mid workstream as well as juggle multiple accreditation packages across multiple customers will be a must have skill.    

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  

In this role, you will:  

• Drive positive Customer Satisfaction and become a trusted advisor to customers and partners, by leveraging Microsoft Business Applications implementation expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes and you will actively listen and respectfully challenge to drive the best outcomes.  
• Provide feedback and insights from customers/partners back to the relevant MS teams including Product Groups, to enable continuous improvement.  
• Drive consumption and business results by providing expertise/guidance to technical and business decision makers to ensure they understand Microsoft's Business Applications value proposition and effectively drive usage and generate value from Microsoft technology investments via implementation advisory, performance efficiency and organizational/operational excellence.  
• Identify resolutions to issues blocking go-live or broad usage of projects by leveraging technical/functional/project management & business value subject matter expertise, delivering all work according to MS best practices & policies and using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP).  
• Identify growth opportunities as you leverage your knowledge of the products, services and value propositions of Microsoft Business Applications in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs.   
• Ensure continuous alignment and improvement of individual skills to better support and enable customers’ and Microsoft’s business goals.  
• Accelerate customer outcomes by engaging in relevant communities to share expertise, contributing to IP creation, prioritizing IP re-use and learning from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey. 
• Lead client workshops to demonstrate product capabilities, foster client relationships and engage with client stakeholders to gather requirements, develop plans, and drive solution success.  
• Analyze requirements and aid in designing technical solutions to meet business goals, objectives, and functional/non-functional requirements in alignment with architectural standards.  
• Work with other team members and leaders to proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues, contribute best practices, and incorporate lessons learned and IP with focus on continuous improvement.    

Required/minimum qualifications

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.