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Principal Engineer Architect

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In short

As a Principal Engineer Architect, you will lead critical growth initiatives for Windows AI experiences, partnering across Microsoft. You will set technical direction, solve complex cross-organizational challenges, and ensure the platform evolves for an AI-first future, requiring exceptional strategic thinking and deep technical expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership at the WXP IDC GM level, setting up, reviewing, and signing off on technical and architectural decisions across various GEM teams.
  • Act as a driver, consultant, and champion for technical choices and directions, representing GEM projects at Director level communities.
  • Contribute to the architecture community by ensuring representation and feedback for all groups, and connecting with the Principal IC community within W+D.
  • Drive and contribute to producing documents that support offline sharing, commenting, and review of significant technical decisions.
  • Define templates for quick specifications of large-scale, multi-organizational architectures with consistent detail and review flow.
  • Set up forums for review of team work, providing early design insights and coaching.
  • Identify "big rocks" (hardest problems), increase their visibility, and build multi-release approaches for addressing them.
  • Participate as a key member of the GM’s Leadership Team, contributing unique viewpoints to decision-making discussions.
  • Engage in group-impacting activities such as D&I initiatives, training, and communications.
  • Mentor and grow others, maintaining a pulse on the IC community and advocating for improvements to the employee experience.
  • Represent the Group Manager and their LT to the IC community.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
  • 12 + years of experience shipping commercial software.
  • 5+ years of experience with C++ and Windows.
  • Deep technical experience including leading others.
  • Researching new ways of doing things.
  • Good communication and data presentation and storytelling skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple organizations without direct authority.
  • Exhibits a growth mindset and humility, while working through high-stakes scenarios.
  • Proven experience as an ally who can further a more open, diverse, and inclusive workplace with a goal of everyone feeling like they belong.
  • Proven experience leading architecture for enterprise-scale platforms, operating systems, cloud services, or highly distributed systems.
  • Demonstrated hypothesis-driven, problem-solving orientation.
  • Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, and communication skills.
  • Ability to think holistically and strategically.
  • Leverage understanding of execution rhythm so that the team operates at a high level, knowledge is shared appropriately, and decision making happens at the right levels on the team.
  • Proven ability to plan, organize, and manage complex technical products.
  • Able to conduct insightful, multi-faceted conversations with senior product and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.
  • Conceptualize complex ideas quickly and convey those thoughts to others in a clear, effective and motivating manner.
  • Experienced collaborator able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft.
  • Proven ability to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusion.
  • Excellent technical judgment.
  • Consistently demonstrating maturity and intellectual curiosity, helping the team pursue the best ideas.
  • Windows and/or Experience in Artificial Intelligence is an added advantage.

Benefits

  • Microsoft's mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
  • A culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
  • Opportunity to drive critical growth bets across multiple Windows customers and segments.
  • Involvement in shaping an AI-first future for Windows.
  • Chance to influence senior leaders across organizations.
  • Opportunity to mentor and grow others within the IC community.
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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

1 month ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Redmond, United States

Qualification

Bachelor

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