Principal Architect - Data AI
Microsoft · Posted Nov 3
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
India, Telangana, HyderabadFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff8+ years₹70.0L–₹1.4Cr yearly36 applicants
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About the role
Microsoft Services India Global Delivery delivers end-to-end solutions that enable accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies, with a focus on AI-driven transformation. The Data & AI Architect role leads solution architecture, technical design, and governance for Azure Cloud and AI-based solutions. The architect works with enterprise customers on scoping, POCs, deployment, and technical leadership across application and AI domains.
What you will do
- 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.
- 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).
- Embody our culture and values
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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Satya Nadella
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Amy Hood
Chief Financial Officer
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Brad Smith
Vice Chair and President
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