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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. Microsoft Services India Global Delivery delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are looking for exceptional architects who have a passion to lead large, complex, innovative programs for customers—now with a focus on AI-driven transformation. The Data & AI Architect is a critical role in the solution implementation lifecycle, cutting across all phases. Architects are technical leaders with a strong understanding of both application and AI technologies, and the ability to apply them to drive business outcomes. This role leads solution architecture, technical design, and governance throughout the lifecycle of Azure Cloud and AI-based solutions. Architects have a passion for the customer, demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.
Job Responsibility:
Lead client engagements from definition through delivery to ensure technical and AI transformation success for our customers
Collaborate with enterprise customers to scope and define requirements, architect and design solutions, and deliver transformational, customized industry solutions and services, including AI-powered applications
Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment
Develop deep relationships with key customer decision makers (both Business and IT) who drive long-term innovation and transformation to our customers’ product roadmap
Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers and drive product improvements
Proactively identify opportunities for integrating modern architecture patterns and emerging technical solutions—including AI, machine learning, and generative AI—into current designs
Evaluate, identify, mitigate and eliminate risk, provide guidance, and propose immediate solutions
Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, including senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, Developers, Data Scientists, and IT Management
Lead deep technical architecture discussions and development of POCs, including AI solution prototypes
Guide customers to production deployment and operationalization of both application and AI solutions
Apply technical knowledge and expertise to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create solution roadmaps, drive POCs and MVPs, and ensure long-term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key technologies where appropriate
Collaborate with other Architects and technology stakeholders to develop complex end-to-end Enterprise grade solutions
Create exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders and partners to drive role clarity, account coverage, project assignment, and effective cross-team collaboration
Ensure delivery of high-quality production deployments that are resilient and successful
Coach and enable your team members to accelerate innovation programs to production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations, and technical resource orchestration
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain
OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain
OR equivalent experience
6+ years technical sales experience
6+ years project management experience
Technical or Professional Certification in AI Domain
Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment
Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills
Conversant knowledge of competing platforms and solutions
Proven track record of building deep relationships with CXOs
Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small technical audiences
Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners
Orchestration of application and AI development lifecycle
Experience in vertical industries, proven by projects/solutions implemented with substantial business processes covering Financial and Insurance, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Retail, or other business to consumer industry scenarios
Demonstrable architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of complex application and AI architectures
Candidates must also demonstrate ability to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and understand relevant cloud and AI trends
Extensive experience in implementing, operating, customizing, tuning, and troubleshooting Cloud solutions
Designing scalable solutions on cloud platforms with focus on performance and resiliency, utilizing microservices architectures
Engineering distributed applications within architectural scenarios such as Web, IoT, and AI-powered systems
Application design patterns, and anti-patterns, such as MVC, CQRS, SAGA
Interacting with and querying databases and/or NoSQL datastores
Application monitoring and end-to-end telemetry
Containers for packaging application deployment units and interacting with container-orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Cloud Foundry
Defining CI/CD pipelines to automate test and release across different application environments using concepts such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments and related technologies
Source code management using Git or other source control technologies
Open source technologies and frameworks
Experience architecting, designing, and deploying AI solutions using Azure AI or other similar cloud services
Proficiency in building, training, and operationalizing machine learning models, including generative AI and LLMs
Familiarity with AI solution design patterns, responsible AI principles, and ethical AI practices
Hands-on experience with AI agentic frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, and integration of AI agents into enterprise applications
Programming skills in Python, R, and/or C# for AI development
Knowledge of AI certifications and demonstrated learning in the merging areas of AI Stack
Design and Implementation approach towards Data governance, logging, and lineage for AI solutions
Experience with cloud databases such as Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and Azure Cosmos DB
Data pipeline creation, ETL/ELT processes, and managing large datasets (structured and unstructured)
Nice to have:
Additional or Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 20+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain
OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain