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Principal Architect - Data & AI

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Microsoft Corporation

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India , Hyderabad

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Job Description:

The Principal Architect (L65) is a senior executive level technical leader accountable for enterprise-wide architecture strategy, AI first delivery execution, and business outcomes across complex, multiyear customer engagements. This role serves as a trusted advisor to CEO, CIO, CTO, CDO, and executive leadership teams of customers, influencing digital, data, and AI transformation agendas.

Job Responsibility:

  • Define and drive enterprise scale AI first delivery strategies
  • Lead end-to-end technical accountability for mission critical, multiprogram engagements
  • Establish delivery models that scale intelligent automation, autonomous systems, and AI native execution
  • Act as the executive technical authority during escalations
  • Partner with CIO/CTO/CDO leadership to balance innovation, governance, cost, security, and speed
  • Set enterprise architecture standards and technical guardrails
  • Ensure production grade quality through architecture reviews, performance benchmarks, security controls
  • Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, SRE, and AI assisted development
  • Foster a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and continuous evolution
  • Shape forward-looking architecture visions for customers
  • Engage in executive level discussions to influence technology roadmaps
  • Lead creation of reusable assets, reference architectures, accelerators, and IP
  • Represent GCID as a thought leader
  • Act as a primary technology advisor to CEO/CIO/CTO leadership
  • Translate business imperatives into enterprise grade architecture, blueprints and execution roadmaps
  • Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders
  • Guide customers through complex tradeoffs
  • Mentor senior architects and engineering leaders
  • Lead cross functional, cross geography architect communities
  • Ensure all solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, reliability, and Responsible AI standards
  • Provide executive oversight to design governance, quality gates, and production readiness

Requirements:

  • 22+ years of experience in software, data, and platform engineering
  • 15+ years in enterprise architecture and technical leadership roles
  • Proven track record of influencing and delivering transformation outcomes at CXO level
  • Deep expertise in modern delivery methodologies and go-to-market acceleration models
  • Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder influence, and decision-making skills
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • advanced certifications preferred
  • Expertise in Enterprise Data Architecture & Modern Platforms
  • Expertise in Data Engineering & Large Scale Data Processing
  • Expertise in Database Platforms, Performance & Capacity Engineering
  • Expertise in AI First Data Engineering & Unify Your Data
  • Expertise in AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement
  • Expertise in Solutioning, Presales & Technical Leadership
  • Expertise in Frontier Consulting Skills
  • Personal Attributes: Executive presence, strategic thinker, decisive, resilient, comfortable navigating ambiguity, passionate about innovation

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 03, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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