Cloud Solution Architect-Copilot & Agent-CTJ-Top Secret/SCI at Microsoft
Washington, DC
$86,100–$169,800from the description
Aug 18, 2026
Washington, DC
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A customer-facing cloud solution architect role focused on driving AI adoption and business value for enterprise clients using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, and related AI/Power Platform tools. The position involves architectural design, stakeholder engagement, prompt engineering, and agent-building to accelerate customers' AI transformation journeys. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance and US citizenship, indicating a federal government customer focus.
Mid level · 2+ years · Unspecified (Remote/US-wide) · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $108,178 (middle half $84,682–$137,059). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists two compensation ranges: USD $86,100–$169,800/year for most US locations, and USD $113,300–$187,400/year for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metro. The lower (national) range is reported in the compensation fields.
The role is labeled 'Cloud Solution Architecture IC3', which is an internal Microsoft level roughly corresponding to a mid-level individual contributor; the advertised title carries no standard seniority word, so advertised seniority is set to Unspecified. The 2+ year minimum experience requirement supports a Mid classification.
The 4+ years of customer-facing experience and 4+ years on M365/Power Platform/Copilot Studio projects are listed under a secondary qualifications block (after the minimum requirements), but are substantive enough to be treated as strong preferred/expected requirements rather than hard gates — they are captured as required given the firm '4+ years' language in what reads as a preferred/additional qualifications section.
Azure AI Foundry appears only in the closing 'breadth of technical experience' list alongside M365 Copilot and Power Platform/Copilot Studio as areas of depth — listed as preferred given the 'two or more of the following' framing.
US citizenship verification is explicitly required due to federal government customer restrictions, in addition to the TS/SCI clearance gate.
The role is ambiguous between 15-1211 (Systems Analysts — business/technical advisory, architecture, stakeholder engagement) and 15-1252 (Software Developers — agent-building, solution development). The primary day-to-day work leans toward customer advisory and solution architecture rather than hands-on software development, so 15-1211 is selected with 15-1252 as the runner-up.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Copilot prompt engineering.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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