Azure Solution Architect

TQA • Austin, TX

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

TQA is seeking a senior technical leader in the United States to join their growing Microsoft practice. This market-facing Solution Architect role will lead the technical front line, focusing on pre-sales (shaping solutions, writing proposals, estimating scope, client presentations) and delivery leadership (setting architecture, quality standards, ensuring sold solutions are delivered). The role reports to the Microsoft Practice Leader, and compensation is tied to practice growth, specifically influenced bookings. The focus areas are Fabric and the Azure AI and data layer (with a strong preference for depth here), Copilot and Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.

Requirements

• Substantial experience as a solution architect, principal consultant, or equivalent, within a Microsoft partner, systems integrator, or consultancy.
• Experience working with the Microsoft field sales organization and making an impact in partnership for growth.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two of our three pillars (Fabric/Azure AI/data, Copilot/Copilot Studio, Power Platform).
• Genuine expertise in Fabric and the Azure AI and data layer is strongly preferred.
• Proposals you wrote, deals you helped close, and pitches you led.
• Ability to size and price work, and comfort being accountable for the estimate given.
• Credibility with both CIOs and developers; ability to explain architecture in business terms without losing detail.
• Experience taking Power Platform or agent estates from pilot to governed scale, including citizen development enablement.
• Based in the United States with existing authorization to work here.
• Willing to travel to client sites.

Nice To Haves

• Microsoft certification aligned to your focus areas is a benefit.
• AZ-306 is a plus.
• Integration experience across legacy and cloud estates, including Dynamics 365 and Azure.
• Exposure to UiPath or ServiceNow, and an interest in agentic development on Anthropic Claude and other model providers.
• Experience standing up a practice or an offering from an early stage.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design in active pursuits, translating client outcomes into a defensible Microsoft architecture.
• Design and define solution offerings and capabilities for the company.
• Write and own the technical content of proposals, statements of work, and responses to formal requests.
• Estimate scope, effort, delivery shape, and commercial risk, then defend those estimates internally and with the client.
• Act as the senior technical voice in the client pitches, executive briefings, and competitive bake-offs.
• Run discovery workshops, assessments, and architecture reviews that convert into paid engagements.
• Build reusable assets: reference architectures, demonstrations, accelerators, and estimating models that make the next pursuit faster.
• Own the architecture for US-based Microsoft engagements, from design authority through to production.
• Set the technical quality standard, review delivery team output, and hold the line on governance and security.
• Resolve technical escalations on live accounts and protect the client relationship when a delivery gets difficult.
• Turn delivered work into references, case studies, and evidence for Microsoft specializations.
• Mentor consultants and developers, and support the practice certification plan.
• Build working relationships with Microsoft field sellers, technical specialists, and partner development managers across your territory.
• Support co-sell motions, joint account planning, and Microsoft-sourced pipeline.
• Represent TQA in Microsoft field briefings, partner events, and joint customer workshops.

Benefits

• Base salary plus a performance-linked variable component.
• Accelerated career path.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects.
• Develop expertise and grow into leadership roles quickly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed