Cloud Solution Architecture Manager - M365 Copilot

Cloud Solution Architecture Manager - M365 Copilot

Overview

MCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.

The Customer & Commercial Success (CCS) organization, an organization within MCAPS-Core, is the connected engine that turns Microsoft’s commercial strategy into execution at scale — making it simpler and faster for the field to win for every customer, in every segment, region, and role. The organization brings together planning, landing, execution excellence, services portfolio and delivery, and field activation across ATU, STU, and CSU to accelerate customer value, drive growth, and strengthen the end-to-end experience across every customer moment.

As a Cloud Solution Architect Manager, you will lead a team of people who enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your business and technical expertise, you will coach the team to ensure customers get value from their MS investments such as M365 Enterprise solutions and Unified support investments. As a CSA Manager, your role is pivotal in driving the success of the AI Business Solutions Customer Success Unit (CSU). You as a people manager, will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching and caring.  This role is Microsoft onsite only. 

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.

Responsibilities

•    Customer Engagement: Enhance customer engagement by improving account coverage ratios, increasing technical capacity for Copilot and Agents, and ensuring every customer interaction delivers value and drives usage 
•    Strategic Leadership: Lead your team to deliver an end-to-end Copilot journey across Chat, M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform, ensuring alignment with AI Business Solutions' goals 
•    Team Development: Emphasize skilling and training through programs like Tech Boost, Tech Excel, and Tech Connect. Foster a culture of continuous learning and development within your team to ensure they are equipped with the necessary skills to succeed 
•    Operational Excellence: Focus on operational excellence by aligning technical paths to metrics, ensuring accurate milestone creation based on users and monthly active users, and implementing rigorous execution to drive usage excellence across the portfolio 
•    Performance Measurement: Measure success through key metrics such as MAU or Consumed Revenue, Revenue Impact, and Enhanced Solutions Revenue. Ensure that your team is aligned with these metrics and continuously track progress to maximize impact on revenue 
•    Unified Model Implementation: Use all available engagement opportunities to drive Unified EDE/DE involvement and ensure customers experience a smooth transition throughout their journey.
•    Account Targeting: Focus on high-growth accounts with targeted efforts and Unified Enhance Solutions. Prioritize impactful accounts aligned with business goals.

Qualifications

•  12+ years 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 
•   5+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers
•    6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). 
•    6+ years experience leading technical projects, teams, or functions
o    Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
•    5+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers and/or technical architect managers

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.

Experience Level

Senior Level