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Senior leader, Technology Consulting

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In short

Microsoft is seeking a senior leader for its Industry Solutions - Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID). This role involves leading the technical execution and delivery of complex client projects, with a strong emphasis on embedding AI-first principles and cloud-native architectures (Azure). The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, full-stack development, and AI-driven application development, along with excellent leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Embed AI-first principles into delivery workflows, leveraging automation and intelligent orchestration.
  • Own the Architecture and drive end-to-end delivery of complex projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, robust, and aligned with client business outcomes.
  • Drive engineering excellence through reusable components, accelerators, and scalable architecture.
  • Oversee technical execution across multiple projects, ensuring adherence to best practices, quality standards, and compliance requirements.
  • Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to define strategies, delivery plans, milestones, and risk mitigation approaches.
  • Act as a technical point of contact for clients, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Ensure delivery models are optimized for modern, AI-native execution, including integration of automation and intelligent processes.
  • Ability to step into at-risk projects, quickly assess issues, and establish a credible path to recovery or exit.
  • Champion high-quality engineering practices across all delivery engagements.
  • Ensure adherence to coding standards, architectural integrity, and performance benchmarks.
  • Define and institutionalize engineering guardrails that embed secure coding, test-driven development, observability.
  • Encourage continuous learning and technical certifications to maintain cutting-edge expertise.
  • Drive adoption of modern delivery methodologies (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD) to ensure robust and scalable solutions.
  • Foster a culture of technical rigor, innovation, and accountability within the team.
  • Monitor and evaluate emerging technologies to inform strategic direction.
  • Lead innovation in delivery models, reusable assets, and accelerators to enhance efficiency and impact.
  • Champion modern thinking and best practices across teams and engagements to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Use design thinking to shape user-centric solutions, aligning business goals, architecture decisions, and delivery execution.
  • Engage with clients to understand business needs and provide expert guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Support pre-sales and solutioning efforts with estimations, proof-of-concepts, and technical proposals.
  • Build and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and value delivery.
  • Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Conduct reviews, provide feedback, and support professional development of team members.
  • Ensure secure, compliant, and reliable solution delivery through secure coding, test-driven development, observability, design reviews, and quality gates across all engagements.
  • Serve as a strategic partner for internal and external stakeholders on key initiatives.
  • Provide strategic guidance and execution oversight to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Requirements

  • 18+ years of experience in software/solution engineering, with hands-on experience and willing to code and design.
  • Proven experience in leading delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
  • Strong understanding of modern delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, etc.).
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and team leadership skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • End-to-end design and development of modern web and mobile applications using React, Angular, Next.js, Blazor, or equivalent frameworks.
  • Strong backend engineering expertise using .NET, Java, Node.js, or Python, applying clean architecture, domain-driven design, and API-first principles.
  • Experience building scalable microservices and distributed systems, leveraging REST, gRPC, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.
  • Hands-on data and platform fundamentals, including relational and NoSQL databases (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB), performance tuning, scalability, resiliency, and application security.
  • Build AI-driven, cloud-native applications with intelligence embedded into core workflows.
  • Hands-on use of GitHub Copilot across the SDLC, enabling solutioning, development, CI/CD, and production readiness.
  • Lead a Copilot-assisted engineering culture, driving AI pair-programming and high-velocity delivery at scale.
  • Modernize large application estates using Copilot-assisted code comprehension, refactoring, and cloud-native migration.
  • Coach teams and customers on safe, enterprise-grade Copilot usage, prompt strategies, and adoption patterns.
  • Apply Responsible AI principles, embedding security, privacy, governance, and compliance into delivery workflows.
  • Deliver production-grade AI solutions using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, and custom ML, including RAG architectures with Azure AI Search and enterprise data grounding.
  • Deep expertise in LLM integration—prompt engineering, context and grounding strategies—for copilots, conversational applications, and intelligent business workflows.
  • Proven design of agentic AI systems (single and multi-agent), with orchestration, tools, memory, human-in-the-loop, and enterprise-ready operations including observability, governance, and cost/performance optimization.
  • Design PaaS-first, cloud-native Azure architectures, prioritizing managed services for scale, resilience, security, and efficiency.
  • Architect solutions across App Service, Container Apps, AKS, Functions, and API Management, selecting optimal compute per workload and business need.
  • Strong expertise in identity, security, and networking, including Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identity, Key Vault, private endpoints, VNET integration, and landing patterns.
  • Build highly available and resilient systems, including multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and fault-tolerant architectures.
  • Apply cost-aware and Well-Architected principles, optimizing reliability, performance, operations, and cost efficiency.
  • Design and operate secure CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with automated build, test, and deployment.
  • Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code using Bicep, ARM, and Terraform, leveraging GitHub Copilot to enforce enterprise standards.
  • Deep understanding of observability and reliability engineering, including logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs, alerting, and production readiness.
  • Drive developer productivity and delivery velocity through inner-source practices, reusable platforms, accelerators, and automation.
  • Embed DevSecOps and platform engineering, delivering paved-road, self-service capabilities that balance speed, governance, reliability, and compliance.
  • Lead technical solutioning, estimations, and support architecture design during pre-sales and delivery shaping.
  • Translate business outcomes into clear architecture, execution plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Influence technical direction across multiple teams and engagements.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal leadership.
  • Lead rapid prototyping, pilots, and early enterprise deployments, taking ideas from whiteboard to production with minimal friction.
  • Hands-on troubleshooting and production support, addressing performance, reliability, and security issues to unblock progress.
  • Side-by-side engineering engagement with customer teams, accelerating deployments, adoption, and time-to-value through direct coding support.
  • Outcome-driven delivery in ambiguous, high-pressure environments, building reusable accelerators and reference implementations while engaging senior customer stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

  • Relevant certifications are a plus.

Benefits

  • Embody our culture and values
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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

1 month ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Hybrid

Experience Level

Executive

Locations

United States

Qualification

Bachelor

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