Overview
Microsoft Industry Solutions – Global Center Innovation and Delivery Center (GCID) delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. An organization of well over 1000+ exceptional people, GCID presents a significant prospect for highly experienced services professionals to shape enterprise transformation at scale.
The Principal Architect is a senior executive level technical leader accountable for enterprise-wide architecture strategy, AI first delivery execution, and business outcomes across complex, multiyear customer engagements. This role serves as a trusted advisor to CEO, CIO, CTO, CDO, and executive leadership teams of customers, influencing digital, data, and AI transformation agendas.
In an AI first GCID organization, Principal Architects are expected to shape vision, define guardrails, and lead execution of intelligent, scalable, and secure solutions that directly drive business value, resilience, and innovation. The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional technical breadth, strategic depth,



executive presence, and the ability to operate confidently in ambiguous, high impact environments.

Responsibilities
AI First Delivery Leadership
Define and drive enterprise scale AI first delivery strategies, aligned to customer business vision and executive priorities.
Lead end-to-end technical accountability for mission critical, multiprogram engagements, ensuring strategic alignment, architectural integrity, and measurable business outcomes.
Establish delivery models that scale intelligent automation, autonomous systems, and AI native execution across programs and portfolios.
Act as the executive technical authority during escalations, guiding recovery, transformation, or exit strategies for high-risk or underperforming engagements.
Partner with CIO/CTO/CDO leadership to balance innovation, governance, cost, security, and speed at enterprise scale.
Engineering Excellence
Set enterprise architec

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