Senior Cloud & AI Solution Architecture Manager
Microsoft
As a Senior Cloud Solution Architecture Manager, you will lead a highly experienced team of Chief Cloud Solution Architects. Your team’s mission is to accelerate customer adoption of secure, reliable cloud platforms and AI-driven solutions. Your team aligns technical strategy with business outcomes, and they turn complex consumption plans into predictable delivery.
By applying Enterprise Architecture practices and you and your team partners with customer executives and internal stakeholders to modernize applications, unify data platforms, strengthen resiliency and security, and drive responsible AI. You build a culture of technical excellence, measurable impact, and continuous personal growth while working with the largest enterprise customers in Germany.
This manager role is an opportunity to build and coach a high performing team of Senior Cloud Solution Architects, master consumption & delivery governance and strengthen executive stakeholder influence with deeper business acumen and deal structuring.
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 line with our Flexible Work approach, for roles at Microsoft Germany, we recommend spending at least two days per week in the office or at the customer site.
Responsibilities
People Leadership
Build and lead a high‑performing team of Chief Cloud Solution Architects. Set clear expectations, develop talent through coaching, and hold individuals accountable for measurable outcomes.
Enterprise Customer Impact
Ensure the team drives material business and technical outcomes for Microsoft’s largest strategic enterprise customers in Germany. Guide customers toward secure, sustainable cloud and AI solutions aligned to long‑term platform adoption.
Enterprise Architecture & Technical Leadership
Provide deep enterprise architecture leadership across AI, application modernization, data platforms, infrastructure, networking, and security. Enable trusted decision‑making for complex cloud and AI architectures based on customer business vision.
Executive Partnership & Business Alignment
Partner with customer executives and internal stakeholders to align technical strategy with business outcomes.
Consumption Delivery & Pipeline Leadership
Own delivery and consumption governance to ensure engagements land, expand, and deliver predictable outcomes. Drive workload motions across AI, applications, data, and infrastructure to build a healthy, forward‑leaning pipeline.
Culture & Ways of Working
Model Microsoft’s culture of growth mindset, inclusion, collaboration, respect, integrity, and accountability. Support hybrid work aligned to Microsoft guidance, with regular presence in the office and at customer sites.
Qualifications
Enterprise Architecture as Business Enabler
Proven experience leading Enterprise Architecture in complex organizations, translating customer business strategy, operating models, and organizational structures into scalable cloud, application, data, security, and AI architectures that drive sustainable business outcomes.
Understanding Customer Business Organizations
Demonstrated ability to understand how enterprise customers are structured and operate—including business units, IT, architecture, security, finance, and decision governance—and to align architectural recommendations with business priorities, investment models, and transformation agendas.
Customer Facing Enterprise Architecture Experience
Extensive experience in customer facing roles, acting as a trusted Enterprise Architecture advisor to large enterprise customers, guiding modernization journeys across applications, data platforms, infrastructure, security, and AI.
Executive Level Engagement & Influence
Proven success leading executive level conversations with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, Chief Architects, and business leaders, clearly articulating architectural tradeoffs and connecting technical decisions to business value, risk, and financial impact.
Leadership of Senior Architecture Teams
Experience building, leading, and coaching high performing teams of senior architects, setting clear expectations, developing architectural leaders, and holding teams accountable for measurable business and technology outcomes.
Cloud & AI Enterprise Architecture Expertise
Deep experience designing and governing enterprise architectures on AZURE, integrating application modernization, data & analytics, AI, infrastructure, networking, identity, and security into coherent enterprise landscapes.
Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking
Ability to connect Enterprise Architecture decisions to customer business models, transformation roadmaps, investment tradeoffs, and long-term value realization.
Education & Language
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or equivalent practical experience.
Fluency in German and English, with experience working with large enterprise customers in Germany.
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.