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TokenOps connects the architecture and economics of those systems to the governance expected by enterprise leaders and regulators. Within the Frontier Transformation team, this principal role leads that capability across EMEA's diverse markets and operating environments.\nWe are seeking a Principal EMEA AI TokenOps Solution Architect to shape strategic opportunities and lead customer architecture, delivery, and regional scale. You will provide principal-level direction for complex AI and cloud transformations, lead executive and technical decisions from workshop through production, and ensure that TokenOps solutions address sovereignty, security, Responsible AI, and economic accountability together.\nThis role is for an architect who can set direction across customers and delivery teams while remaining credible in detailed solution design. You will combine Azure AI Foundry, agent and RAG patterns, routing, evaluations, observability, FinOps unit economics, data and API integration, and EMEA regulatory requirements to create reusable regional architectures and delivery practices.\nResponsibilities\nCore Responsibilities\nShape the most strategic EMEA TokenOps opportunities, aligning executive priorities, regulatory obligations, transformation scope, and measurable customer outcomes.\n\nLead architecture workshops and governance forums that resolve complex decisions across business, technology, security, data, risk, and finance stakeholders.\n\nSet the target Azure AI Foundry architecture for agents, RAG, model access, orchestration, integration, and enterprise operations.\n\nGuide pilots and prototypes that test the highest-risk assumptions and establish an evidence-based path to production and scale.\n\nDefine model routing and evaluation strategies that balance quality, latency, resilience, cost, explainability, and regulatory expectations.\n\nEstablish TokenOps observability that connects agent and model behavior to tokens, costs, controls, service outcomes, and customer value.\n\nUse FinOps unit economics to frame architecture tradeoffs, investment choices, operating models, and scale decisions for executive sponsors.\n\nDirect data, API, identity, network, security, and Responsible AI architecture across complex customer estates and delivery partners.\n\nTranslate GDPR, EU AI Act, sovereignty, data-residency, and market-specific obligations into actionable architecture and delivery controls.\n\nProvide principal-level technical leadership, design assurance, escalation support, and coaching across EMEA engagements.\n\nCreate reusable EMEA shaping and delivery patterns and feed regional requirements into the global TokenOps product and practice roadmap.\n\nSuccess in this role looks like\nStrategic EMEA opportunities have an executive-aligned TokenOps outcome, defensible architecture, governed delivery plan, and credible route to scale.\n\nComplex customer decisions are resolved through clear principles, evidence, tradeoffs, and accountable architecture governance.\n\nSolutions integrate AI capability, observability, unit economics, security, Responsible AI, sovereignty, and regulation without treating them as separate workstreams.\n\nRegional delivery teams use consistent architecture patterns and receive effective principal-level guidance on high-risk decisions.\n\nEMEA field learning shapes reusable offerings and improves the global TokenOps architecture, product priorities, and delivery standards.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience, and significant years in enterprise solution architecture.\n\nPrincipal-level leadership of complex AI or cloud transformations involving multiple business units, technology domains, or delivery organizations across EMEA.\n\nDeep knowledge of Azure AI Foundry and production architectures for enterprise AI, agents, and RAG solutions.\n\nExperience designing model routing, evaluation, observability, and operational-governance capabilities for AI systems.\n\nAbility to connect FinOps unit economics, technical telemetry, and architecture choices to executive investment and scale decisions.\n\nStrong data, API, identity, network, security, and enterprise-integration architecture expertise.\n\nDemonstrated application of security and Responsible AI requirements throughout architecture and delivery.\n\nWorking knowledge of GDPR, the EU AI Act, sovereignty, data residency, and related EMEA regulatory considerations.\n\nExecutive communication, architecture-governance, and consulting judgment sufficient to lead ambiguous, high-stakes customer decisions.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nAzure Solutions Architect certification or equivalent recognized architecture expertise.\n\nDelivery experience across multiple EMEA countries, regulatory environments, industries, or sovereign-cloud contexts.\n\nExperience establishing architecture principles, review mechanisms, and reusable standards across a regional practice.\n\nKnowledge of agent and RAG evaluation, quality, safety, and lifecycle-management methods.\n\nExperience shaping major transformation scopes, work packages, roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and success criteria.\n\nAbility to frame AI economics and technical tradeoffs for boards, executive sponsors, finance leaders, and risk stakeholders.\n\nTrack record of coaching architects and delivery teams and providing effective escalation leadership.\n\nAbility to support engagement planning and controller implementation while turning regional field requirements into global product and practice improvements.\n\nSolution Architecture IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 96,400.00 - £ 195,100.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.\nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html\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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