Microsoft Principal Software Architect 

United States, Washington 

606870761

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#,C++, and JavaScript.
• OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience designing, building and supporting highly scalable, highly available and fault tolerant workloads in Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• 5+ years of Engineering leadership experience in delivering complex, time sensitive initiatives across organizational boundaries.

Other Qualifications:

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Cybersecurity.
• 4+ years of experience with agile delivery methodologies using Azure DevOps.
• 2+ years of experience with Cloud Security and Controls
• Experience with deploying cloud security guardrails and controls
• Experience with one or more programming or query languages (PowerShell, Python, Javascript, SQL).
• Excellence in written and verbal communication and ability to partner for success across all levels of organization and technical depths.
• Understanding of the Software development ecosystem; from inception to delivery.
• Proven track record of improving reliability, availability, and performance of cloud services.
• Experience developing and maintaining large scale distributed systems.
• 5+ Experience in containerization, serverless, micro services and Kubernetes (ex. AKS, ARO, Docker)
• 5+ years of Expertise in Azure (ex. API manager, Networking, Event Grid, Front Door, Logic Apps, ADLS, Data Explorer, Cosmos).
• 2+ years of experience in Open AI/ML services is a plus.
• Proven experience with real time or near real time data ingestion and analysis technologies (ex. Azure Event Hub, Stream Analytics, Data Explorer)
• Expertise in bringing together diverse stakeholders and perspectives, aligning goals between business and technology, and driving focused results with significant impact.
• Analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with distributed systems in a cloud environment.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 7, 2025.

• Lead the requirements, analysis, and development efforts for Engineering projects, solving complex business problems while leveraging Azure technologies and Agile Scrum methodology.

• Effectively manage tradeoffs between cost, schedule, roadmaps and business impact, incorporate seasoned and up-to-date expertise in Quality, Cybersecurity, distributed services, infrastructure, and components, partner with and influence a multi-disciplinary stakeholder group to envision and formalize effective engineering system and solution architecture and deliver accurate design specifications.

• Collaborate with Architects and Engineers to define and prioritize workstreams as appropriate across functional areas and drive the adoption and implementation of cohesive architecture patterns, designs, and best practices; perform technical architecture reviews and support security and risk assessment as a trusted advisor.

• Spearhead the development and evolution of architectural patterns for resilient, scalable and secure cloud services and solutions for CST and the CELA department

• Partner across CELA, Cloud + AI (C+AI), Experiences + Devices (E+D), Microsoft Security, other Microsoft Departments and teams to ensure coordinated management engineering dependencies, and to continuously foster alignment of long-term vision for system integration that drives and elevates Trust across Microsoft.

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of software industry and cross-company best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies, and how these can apply to our product, business, service, and technology stack.

• Manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize workload effectively, and thrive in a dynamic environment.

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