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Principal Architect, Apps

India, Bangalore · Job Posted March 21, 2026
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Microsoft Industry Solutions – Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID) delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. An organization of well over 1000+ exceptional people, GCID presents a compelling opportunity for senior technical leaders to drive enterprise scale transformation through consulting, architecture, and delivery leadership. The Principal Architect is a senior technical and business leader accountable for shaping, influencing, and driving successful outcomes across large, complex, multiyear enterprise engagements. This role operates at the convergence of technology, business strategy, and executive decision making, acting as a trusted advisor to customer CEO, CIO, CTO, and CDO stakeholders.

Job Responsibility

  • Set and enforce engineering excellence standards across organizations, ensuring architecture integrity, quality, security, resilience, and performance at enterprise scale
  • Champion modern engineering practices including AI assisted development, DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and platform engineering
  • Drive creation and reuse of enterprise grade reference architectures, accelerators, patterns, and paved road platforms
  • Establish and govern architecture review cadences aligned with the Microsoft WellArchitected Framework
  • Act as a visible thought leader with customers and internal leadership
  • Track and evaluate emerging technologies, AI platforms, and engineering paradigms
  • Influence innovation across GCID by sharing best practices, defining reusable assets, and mentoring senior architects
  • Operate as a trusted advisor to CEO / CIO / CTO stakeholders
  • Lead executive design sessions, architecture boards, and transformation roadmap reviews
  • Own technical leadership during presales, deal shaping, and complex pursuits
  • Build long-term executive relationships
  • Provide senior-most technical leadership across multiple architect teams
  • Mentor and develop senior and principal architects
  • Influence talent strategy, capability development, and succession planning
  • Ensure enterprise grade security, governance, reliability, and compliance across all engagements
  • Drive adoption of secure-by-design, Responsible AI, and privacy-first engineering practices
  • Partner with customer security, risk, and compliance leadership

Requirements

  • 22+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise architecture, with significant experience operating at CxO level technical leadership roles
  • Proven track record leading large-scale transformation programs across cloud, data, AI, and modern application platforms
  • Strong executive communication, stakeholder influence, and decision-making capability
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • advanced certifications and industry recognition preferred
  • Expertise in Full Stack Application Engineering
  • Expertise in AI-Driven & AI-Enabled Application Development
  • Expertise in Cloud-Native Architecture (Azure)
  • Expertise in DevOps, Platform & Developer Productivity
  • Expertise in Solutioning, Pre-Sales & Strategic Leadership
  • Expertise in Frontier Engineering & Customer Enablement Skills

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