Microsoft Principal Software Architect 

United States, Washington 

710118070

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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++, C#, Java, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience designing, building and supporting highly scalable, highly available and fault tolerant workloads in Azure.
• 5+ years of AI experience.
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience in delivering complex, time sensitive initiatives across organizational boundaries.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in working with cross-functional teams, such as product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and stakeholders, with proven communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated technical skills and knowledge in large language model, deep learning, transformer models, data engineering, cloud stack technologies, information fusion, large-scale machine learning models.
• Experience in Language AI areas including machine translation, language understanding, text summarization, etc.
• Demonstrated ability in self-learning, entering new domain, managing through uncertainty in an innovative team environment.
• Demonstrated design, problem solving skills and drive to success

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 September 23, 2024.

• Lead the requirements, analysis, and development efforts for engineering projects, solving complex business problems while leveraging Azure AI technologies and Agile Scrum methodology.
• Effectively manage tradeoffs between cost, schedule, roadmaps and business impact, incorporate seasoned and up-to-date expertise in AI runtime, large scale web services, 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, scientists 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 Language AI
• 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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