Microsoft

Architect Data & AI

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7 days ago
Noida, India +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end technical delivery of complex client projects, including recovery of at-risk engagements.
  • Define scalable enterprise data architectures, modernization strategies, target states, and platform optimization plans.
  • 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, capacity planning, query tuning, indexing strategy, workload sizing, and storage optimization.
  • Design agentic AI workflows and AI-powered data engineering solutions for discovery, preparation, profiling, validation, governance, and optimization.
  • Integrate and optimize AI and machine learning workloads, AI agents, RAG pipelines, inference workloads, monitoring, drift detection, and responsible AI controls.
  • Drive secure coding, testing, observability, performance, quality, compliance, and governance practices across engagements.
  • Lead technical solutioning, estimates, architecture design, proposals, demonstrations, and pre-sales support.
  • Lead cross-functional teams, mentor team members, influence technical direction, and engage with senior clients and internal leadership.

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.
  • At least 10+ years in architect and delivery leadership roles.
  • Proven experience leading complex, multidisciplinary project delivery and providing hands-on architecture or engineering leadership.
  • Strong experience with enterprise data platforms, large-scale data processing, databases, AI and machine learning enablement, performance engineering, and production operations.
  • 8+ years of technical sales experience preferred.
  • 8+ years of project management experience preferred.
  • Technical or professional certification in a relevant domain is preferred.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, decision-making, team leadership, and consultative skills.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkDatabricksMariaDBMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLSnowflake

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Microsoft

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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