Overview In a world where cyber threats, regulatory pressure, and digital complexity continue to increase, organizations need more than one‑off projects — they need secure, scalable solutions and offerings that can be deployed consistently and reliably at scale.As a Partner Solution Architect**, you support the design and development of** repeatable, scalable architectures and offerings—whether services, managed services or IP‑based solutions—ensuring they are built to scale across environments while maintaining strong security, resilience, and compliance foundations.

This is a deeply technical role focused on building secure, scalable architectures that stand up to today’s threat landscape. You guide the creation of repeatable solution designs grounded in secure‑by‑design principles, ensuring consistent implementation across customers while maintaining a strong security posture, compliance alignment, and operational robustness.

Responsibilities As a Security Partner Solution Architect (PSA), you enable partners to design and deliver secure, scalable, repeatable security solutions and offerings aligned to Zero Trust, using Microsoft Security technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel,Microsoft Defender XDR(including Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Office, and Defender for Cloud Apps),Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview. You lead technical workshops and architecture reviews, unblock complex implementation issues, and ensure solutions are production-ready with strong security posture and operational readiness. You also guide partners on their MAICPP Security designation and specialization journey(e.g.,Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management, Threat Protection, Information Protection & Governance), aligning solution builds to the required capability areas so offerings can be validated and scaled

Qualifications:

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND proven experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND extensive demonstrated experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND extensive experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Demonstrated experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).Demonstrated experience leading technical projects.

Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

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.