Manufacturing & Mobility CTO

Microsoft Frontier Company is Microsoft's outcome-driven AI engineering and delivery business, a global organization of industry experts, world-class architects, forward-deployed engineers, consultants, and delivery professionals who work together to bring Microsoft's mission of empowerment and cutting-edge technology to life for the world's most influential customers. Frontier Company is helping shape how AI, delivery discipline, and deep industry expertise come together to create faster, better, and more measurable customer outcomes, embedding our experts directly with customers to co-design, deploy, operate, and continuously improve AI systems tied to real business impact. We work side by side with customers across the full Frontier Transformation journey and pride ourselves on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world.  The Worldwide Manufacturing & Mobility Industry CTO for Microsoft Frontier Company is the  technology leader responsible for identifying, shaping, and scaling agentic technology patterns across the most strategic global Manufacturing & Mobility customers. This role translates complex mission needs into repeatable, secure, compliant agentic solution patterns that deliver real-world value and impactful mission outcomes. As part of FIA, the CTO community serves as the technical bridge between Industry Advisors, Engineering, FDE Studios, and Solution Sales teams. Together, we transform customer insights into repeatable solutions, influence future product direction, and help customers realise measurable business outcomes through AI and Frontier technologies. Job Purpose As a Manufacturing & Mobility CTO, you will turn technical ambiguity into repeatable advantage. You will operate at the intersection of customer demand, industry expertise, Engineering innovation, and AI transformation. Working across Industry Advisors, FDE Studios, Engineering teams, and Solution Sales Enablement, you will identify the technical patterns, architectures, and opportunities that can scale across industries and customers. You will help Microsoft learn faster from every engagement by transforming customer signals, implementation insights, and emerging technology trends into reusable assets, engineering feedback, technical points of view, and scalable solution patterns. This opportunity will allow you to: Shape future industry and Engineering direction through direct influence on product roadmaps and strategic innovation priorities. Develop deep expertise in Frontier Transformation, AI-powered business models, and industry-led technical strategy. Build technical leadership across some of Microsoft's most strategic customers, industries, and Engineering organisations. You will join a geographically distributed team with flexible working arrangements, combining remote collaboration with customer, industry, and team engagements. Microsoft Culture Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realise 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.

Responsibilities Drive Technical Pattern Recognition Across Industries Identify, validate, and scale repeatable technical patterns emerging from customer engagements, FDE projects, industry trends, and AI transformation initiatives. Distinguish between one-off customer requirements and opportunities that can be leveraged across an entire industry or solution domain. Shape Microsoft's Future Through Engineering Influence Create a closed feedback loop between Industry Advisors, FDE Studios, customers, and