Microsoft

Technical Architect

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23 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$166k - $331k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship secure software using Microsoft security and privacy practices, threat modeling, and safe deployment patterns.
  • Lead discovery with customers and stakeholders, translating business goals and constraints into technical requirements and solution approaches.
  • Architect and implement cloud and AI solutions from prototype through production.
  • Improve reliability through automation, iterative delivery, testing, observability, and other modern engineering practices.
  • Deliver solutions that meet customer success metrics, support adoption, and enable customer teams through coaching, knowledge transfer, and documentation.
  • Create reusable reference implementations, frameworks, and best-practice patterns for use across customers.
  • Guide teams through ambiguous technical problems and balance value, feasibility, compliance, and risk.
  • Set technical direction, unblock teams, mentor engineers, and communicate recommendations and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master's degree and 12+ years of experience, or a bachelor's degree and 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, and performance monitoring.
  • Familiarity with deploying and operating AI systems in production environments.
  • Experience using cloud AI platforms such as Azure ML or OpenAI.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
  • Comfort with travel up to 25%.

Benefits

  • The position may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Travel may be required up to 25%.
  • The U.S. typical base pay range is $165,600-$296,400 per year, with a separate range for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.

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Forward Deployed
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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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