Principal Architect
Microsoft
Principal Architect
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
Join our innovative Web Data Platform Team as a Principal Architect to envision and deliver Web Data needs for Grounding LLMs for 1st party Copilots and 3rd party AI solutions.
At Web Data Team, you'll play a key role in building large scale platforms that are fundamental to Bing Search, AI Grounding and Microsoft AI training scenarios driving transformative scenarios powering massive scale of users while processing tens of billions of documents per day and managing hundreds of petabytes of data.
In today's AI-driven world, where data is more valuable than ever, we're embarking on an exciting mission to elevate our platform, harnessing additional richness to position it as the integral building block of AI solutions across the industry. If you're passionate about building high-performance systems that shape the future of data platform that power AI solutions, this is the place for you!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 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.
- Experience with large-scale distributed data platforms, such as: Apache Spark, Kafka, Columnar storage, data modeling and schema designs.
- Experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to web applications, microservices in layers, database design, API design, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis.
- Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications.
- Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design.
- Passion for building reliable and well-tested code.
- Experience managing and working on full-stack teams and products.
- Committed collaboration and communication around articulating technical details.
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Responsibilities
- Align team efforts with business and user requirements by collaborating with stakeholders to define priorities, resolve dependencies, and ensure delivery of well-documented design and implementation plans for products, applications, services, or platforms.
- Guide system design and architectural decisions across multiple components, encouraging the use of data and telemetry to make informed decisions.
- Drive engineering excellence by fostering a culture of building modular, secure, reliable, testable, maintainable, and reusable solutions, while promoting active monitoring practices.
- Establish quality assurance strategies by setting standards for improving test coverage, streamlining integration testing, and addressing critical problem areas proactively.
- Oversee and improve operational reliability, guiding efforts to troubleshoot and optimize automation, monitoring, and Live Site health.