Principal Architect

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Microsoft is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the architectural vision and technical strategy for the Perception Platform, an advanced Agentic AI platform focused on security. This role involves defining scalable, multi-tenant architectures for AI capabilities, ensuring security, reliability, and scale across diverse enterprise environments. Expertise in Generative AI, RAG, distributed systems, and cloud architecture is essential.

Ansvarsområden

Define the architectural vision and long-term technical strategy for the Perception Platform, establishing principles and reference architectures for production-grade AI capabilities.
Define scalable multi-tenant reference architectures that enable platform capabilities to operate securely and reliably across multiple tenants and enterprise environments.
Establish architectural principles, system boundaries, and reusable platform abstractions across compute, storage, networking, identity, configuration, deployment, observability, data, AI execution, and service integration.
Drive architectural convergence across distributed systems and engineering teams, identifying divergent implementations and establishing common patterns.
Define an automation-first architecture for tenant provisioning, configuration, deployment, validation, upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, and operational readiness.
Define architectural approaches that accommodate variations in tenant configuration, service availability, infrastructure topology, networking, identity, security, data residency, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.
Establish architectural strategy for scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
Define reference architecture and architectural principles for agentic and multi-agent AI systems.
Define architecture for identity, authentication, and authorization across AI and agentic systems.
Establish architectural guardrails that ensure tenant isolation and authorization are preserved end-to-end across retrieval, reasoning, planning, memory, and execution.
Define architecture for AI safety, security, and trust boundaries.
Establish architectural approaches for AI memory and state management.
Define architectural expectations for automated validation, testing, and architectural conformance.
Establish observability, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational architecture that enables engineering teams to understand end-to-end platform health.
Define architectural strategies for resilience, scale, capacity, dependency management, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and failure isolation.
Identify systemic architectural dependencies and drive the evolution of existing production systems toward modular, configurable, reusable, secure, and scalable platform architectures.
Lead architecture reviews for critical platform investments and provide technical guidance on build-versus-reuse decisions, service boundaries, data and API contracts, technology selection, cross-service dependencies, and architectural tradeoffs.
Partner with engineering and product leadership to translate customer and business requirements into long-term architectural roadmaps and strategic technology investments.
Influence architecture beyond the immediate team, partnering with architects and engineering leaders across Microsoft Security and related platform organizations.
Mentor and develop senior engineers and architects, raise architectural capability across the organization, and create a culture of rigorous design, technical depth, engineering excellence, and long-term systems thinking.

Krav

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience designing and building complex software systems, distributed systems, cloud platforms; OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Önskade kvalifikationer

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience designing and building complex software systems, distributed systems, or cloud platforms; OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience designing and building complex software systems, distributed systems, or cloud platforms; OR equivalent experience.
Significant experience architecting large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant services, enterprise platforms, cloud infrastructure, or AI-powered systems in production environments.
Experience establishing reference architectures, architectural principles, platform standards, system boundaries, and reusable architectural patterns across multiple engineering teams or organizations.
Experience designing architectures with strong tenant isolation across identity, authorization, data, compute, configuration, networking, and operational boundaries.
Experience defining architecture for Generative AI systems, including model orchestration, RAG, semantic retrieval, memory, context management, reasoning, tool use, evaluation, grounding, safety, and production operationalization.
Experience architecting agentic or multi-agent systems, including planning, tool invocation, task orchestration, memory, state management, delegation, agent-to-agent or agent-to-service communication, policy enforcement, and bounded autonomous execution.
Deep understanding of identity, authentication, authorization, RBAC, least privilege, delegated authorization, workload identities, service identities, agent identities, and multi-tenant security boundaries.
Experience defining secure architectural patterns for integrating AI systems with enterprise data, services, APIs, plugins, tools, and distributed execution environments.
Experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures, including ingestion, indexing, embeddings, retrieval, re-ranking, provenance, grounding, authorization-aware retrieval, and evaluation.
Experience with modern cloud architecture, including Kubernetes, containerized services, compute, storage, networking, service-to-service communication, configuration management, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment, and CI/CD.
Experience architecting highly available and resilient services, including approaches for dependency failure, capacity constraints, throttling, graceful degradation, fault isolation, recovery, and disaster scenarios.
Experience defining observability, diagnostics, health monitoring, deployment validation, and operational architecture for large-scale distributed systems.
Experience identifying architectural coupling and successfully evolving existing production systems toward modular, reusable, configurable, extensible, and scalable platform architectures.
Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs involving security, reliability, scalability, performance, cost, operational complexity, developer productivity, and time-to-market.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy and align engineering organizations around common architectural direction without requiring direct organizational authority.
Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex architectures and tradeoffs clearly to engineering teams, architects, product leaders, security experts, and senior leadership.
Demonstrated ability to mentor senior technical leaders and raise architectural and engineering capabilities across an organization.

Förmåner

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Färdigheter

Generative AIRetrieval-Augmented GenerationAI SafetyDistributed SystemsCloud ArchitectureIdentity and AuthorizationKubernetesRAGRBAC

#AI#Security#Distributed Systems#Cloud Architecture#Multi-tenant#Enterprise

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142 800–304 200 US$ · Förhandlingsbar

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