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 (L65) 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.

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 architecture standards and technical guardrails across data, AI, platform, and engineering disciplines.
- Ensure production grade quality through architecture reviews, performance benchmarks, security controls, observability, and operational readiness.
- Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, SRE, and AI assisted development.
- Foster a culture of t

📌 Principal Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad