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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.\nThe 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 towin 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 Account Team Unit (ATU), Special Teams Unit (STU), and Customer Success Unit (CSU) to accelerate customer value, drive growth, and strengthen the end-to-end experience across every customer moment.\nWe are seeking a Director Security Cloud Solution Architect with experience in a senior management role, who has led enterprise-level security teams and contributed to security strategy and innovation within complex organisations. The candidate should demonstrate technical proficiency, operational effectiveness, business understanding, and experience delivering security transformations.\nThey will manage a team of Americas Security Architects in a customer-facing role, overseeing security relationships and strategy between customers, Microsoft security field teams and Security Product Group (PG)/ Engineering (Eng). The team handles all aspects of security engagements from architecture review to escalation management, liaising with PG and Engineering contributing to product improvement and roadmap. We are looking for someone with experience building technical, customer-facing security teams.\nMicrosoft’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.\nCandidates who live within 50 miles of Microsoft's Redmond campus will be required to work in the office 3 days per week.\nResponsibilities\nDrive Strategic Business Impact & Customer Growth: Hold teams accountable for delivering operational excellence, managing risk, resolving complex customer challenges, and identifying opportunities to expand Microsoft solutions, consumption, adoption, security, resilience, and AI-driven transformation.\nLead Executive Customer Engagement & Advocacy: Guide teams in building trusted relationships with senior technical and business leaders, influencing customer strategy, driving successful outcomes, resolving escalations, and serving as the voice of the customer to shape Microsoft products and services.\nBuild High-Performing Teams & Organizational Capability: Develop managers and technical leaders through coaching, accountability, and empowerment, fostering a culture of continuous learning, talent development, collaboration, and strong execution aligned with business priorities.\nProvide Enterprise-Wide Technical Leadership & Industry Influence: Direct teams in driving innovation, thought leadership, intellectual property development, framework improvements, and industry engagement while representing Microsoft’s technology vision and enabling scalable, repeatable success across customers and the broader organization.\nQualifications\nRequired/minimum qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ 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 consultingOR equivalent experience.\n\n3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.\nOther Requirements\nMicrosoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 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 OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.\nProfessional Skills \n6+ Years Experience in Security technical sales, customer success, engineering, or consultative delivery.\n5+ Years Experience in people management and building and leading high performing teams\nExperience in driving change management, transformation, and technical adoption.\nKey to success - Collaboration. Ability to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of customers.\nCommunication. Thought leader with executive presence, including the ability to hold Chief Information Security Officer(CISO) level discussions, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills.\nUnderstanding of cybersecurity fundamentals (threat landscape, attacker techniques, defense strategies)\nProven ability to map the customer’s needs to technical solutions.\nTechnical understanding of Microsoft Security Solutions and of competitors.\nEmpathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results.\nDemonstrated technical leadership in previous roles.\nAble to quickly resolve customer escalations by coordinating appropriate resources as needed.\nCertification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Microsoft Security architecture, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or equivalent\nExperience working in a customer-facing role\nExperience leading technical projects, teams, or functions\nTechnical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)\n\nTechnical \nBreadth of knowledge across Microsoft Cloud security domains- SIEM & XDR, Purview- Data Security. Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, and Identity - Mandated Expertise/experience focused on:Microsoft SentinelMicrosoft Defender For Cloud (MDC)\n\nDefender for Endpoint (MDE\nDefender for Office (MDO)\nDefender for Identity (MDI)\nDefender for Applications\nPurview Data Security - Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Information Rights Management (IRM)\nIdentity- Entra ID\n\nBreadth of technical security experience and knowledge, with depth and Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following domains:SIEM and Cloud Security Analytics\nSecurity Operations Center (SOC)\nExtended Detection and Response (XDR)\nData Security - Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Information Rights Management (IRM)\nIdentity\n\nCloud Solution Architecture M5 - 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.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft 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. 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