Principal Architect

The Authorization and Root of Trust (ART) team builds the foundational security services that underpin Microsoft's identity and platform trust fabric. We own core capabilities including authorization policy enforcement, public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificate trust, secrets and key management, and supply chain security. Our services enable secure access control, protect signing keys and credentials, and provide end-to-end cryptographic assurance for code, services, and devices across Microsoft and its customers. By operating at the heart of zero-trust architecture, ART ensures that every request, identity, and artifact can be verified and trusted at global scale. We are looking for a Principal Architect who drives the improvement of artificial intelligence tools across the software development lifecycle, guides to anticipate and determine customer/user requirements for complex scenarios, oversees and owns efforts for the architecture of complex products ensuring high standards for solution quality, mentors in identifying dependencies and extending code functionalities across teams.