Job Description
The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. TEAM OVERVIEW: The Vanquish Platform team builds and operates a mission‑critical data and detection platform that powers Microsoft’s Security and Compliance solutions across M365. The team is responsible for large‑scale data ingestion, processing, analytics, and detection pipelines that enable timely identification of adversary activity and protection of customer data. Operating at cloud scale, Vanquish focuses on platform reliability, secure‑by‑design architectures, and continuous modernization to ensure high signal fidelity, operational resilience, and compliance across diverse regulatory environments. ROLE OVERVIEW – We are seeking a highly experienced Data Architect to drive the data architecture strategy for the Vanquish platform. In this role, you will design and evolve scalable, reliable, and secure data architectures across ingestion, processing, analytics, and detection pipelines. You will partner closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to modernize legacy designs, improve data quality and observability, and ensure the platform can meet stringent reliability, performance, and compliance requirements. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in distributed data systems, cloud‑scale analytics, and security‑centric data design. You will play a key role in shaping long‑term architectural direction, influencing engineering best practices, and enabling the platform to detect threats faster while maintaining operational rigor. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
