Microsoft

Architect Data & AI

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3 days ago
Noida, India +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, scalable, and business-aligned client projects across multiple engagements.
  • Drive enterprise data modernization, target-state architecture, workload characterization, capacity planning, performance optimization, and production stability.
  • Design, build, operate, and review large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and establish data engineering standards, SLAs, SLOs, and performance baselines.
  • Lead database performance assessments, query tuning, execution-plan analysis, indexing, capacity planning, and storage optimization across diverse database platforms.
  • Design and operationalize agentic AI workflows, large-language-model automation, AI-powered data wrangling, RAG pipelines, inference workloads, and responsible AI controls.
  • Embed observability, monitoring, drift detection, alerting, governance, security, quality gates, and reliability practices into delivery and production systems.
  • Support pre-sales through technical solutioning, estimates, product demonstrations, proposals, architecture design, and delivery shaping.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, recover at-risk projects, translate business outcomes into execution plans, and lead risk mitigation.
  • Lead and mentor cross-functional teams while promoting reusable assets, accelerators, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, or a related technology domain, including at least 10+ years in architect and delivery leadership roles.
  • Proven experience leading complex, multidisciplinary project delivery and working with senior client and internal stakeholders.
  • Strong expertise in enterprise data architecture, modern data platforms, large-scale data engineering, database performance, AI/ML enablement, and production operations.
  • 8+ years of technical sales experience is preferred.
  • 8+ years of project management experience is preferred.
  • Technical or professional certification in a relevant domain is preferred.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, team leadership, consulting, and technical decision-making skills.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkDatabricksMariaDBMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLSnowflake

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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