Microsoft AI Senior Solutions Architect
Perficient
- Location
- Onsite (Saint Louis, MO)
- Compensation
- $160k - $190k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Perficient is a global AI and technology consulting firm with 7,000+ advisors implementing AI-first solutions for innovative brands. This role drives enterprise AI transformation by leading pre-sales, shaping technical strategies, and translating customer goals into scalable Microsoft AI solutions.
Skills
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Holidays
Perks
- Billable Bonus
Full job details
We currently have a career opportunity for a Microsoft AI Senior Solutions Architect to join our team.
Job Overview:
The Senior Solution Architect is responsible for driving AI transformation across accounts and segments by helping customers adopt Microsoft AI solutions on an enterprise scale. This role combines consultative selling, technical solution leadership, partner orchestration, and leading excellent project delivery to turn our customer’s organizational goals into measurable business outcomes with broad adoption.
The ideal candidate enters executive conversations with a clear point of view, builds clarity in ambiguity, and turns insights into opportunities for the broader team. They are equally comfortable guiding customer transformation, shaping technical solution strategy, orchestrating partners, and coaching others while consistently delivering high-impact outcomes.
Role Summary
This role leads pre-sales activities and strategic customer engagements that translate opportunities into high-value transformation programs. The Senior Solutions Architect develops data-driven pipeline strategies, leads multi-solution conversations, aligns executive stakeholders, and builds repeatable sales and adoption motions that scale across a territory and team.
Key Responsibilities
- Scale the AI workforce business: Drive AI transformation strategies across accounts and segments, lead multi-solution conversations, create repeatable solution plays, and convert opportunities into sold project work.
Drive pre-sales solution strategy: Lead discovery and planning sessions with client stakeholders, define business and technical requirements, identify risks, assumptions, and dependencies, and develop solution approaches that align technology capabilities to customer objectives.
Solution and business value leadership: Translate AI and Microsoft technology capabilities into measurable business outcomes, shape customer vision through a compelling point of view, build trusted relationships with business and technical stakeholders, and architect solutions that clearly demonstrate value, differentiation, and strategic impact.
- Lead customer engagements: Engage senior decision-makers with deep business context, deliver workshops, demos, and executive engagements, incorporate adoption planning, and ensure engagements translate into real usage and impact.
- Raise the bar across the team: Coach peers on strategy and execution, share repeatable patterns and insights, and contribute to broader team and segment success.
Perficient is the global AI and technology consulting firm disrupting the traditional consulting model. Powered by our 7,000+ advisors, engineers, and designers, Perficient implements AI-first solutions that break conventions and deliver outcomes that matter. Proudly serving clients that represent the world’s most innovative brands, and in collaboration with our powerful technology partner ecosystem, we bring deep industry expertise and data-driven design to redefine how businesses run and succeed. Perficient is different. For real. Learn more at perficient.com.