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An organization of well over 1000+ exceptional people, GCID presents a great opportunity for highly skilled services professionals to make a foray into consulting, solution development and delivery roles.\nThe Architect is a senior leader responsible for the successful technical execution and delivery of complex client projects across diverse domains. This role acts as a strategic anchor between clients, leadership team, delivery managers, project managers, and delivery team(s). In the AI-first GCID organization, Architects are expected to embed AI-native thinking into delivery models, ensuring solutions are intelligent, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, demonstrates breadth of expertise, and advocates for solutions that deliver true client value.\nResponsibilities\nAI-First Delivery Leadership\nEmbed AI-first mindset into delivery workflows, leveraging automation and intelligent orchestration where applicable.\nLead end-to-end delivery of complex projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, robust, and aligned with client business outcomes.\nDrive engineering excellence through reusable components, accelerators, and scalable architecture.\nOversee technical execution across multiple projects, ensuring adherence to best practices, quality standards, and compliance requirements.\nCollaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to define strategies, delivery plans, milestones, and risk mitigation approaches.\nAct as a technical point of contact for clients, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.\nEnsure delivery models are optimized for modern AI-native execution, including integration of automation and intelligent processes.\nAbility to step into at-risk projects, quickly assess issues, and establish a credible path to recovery or exit.\nEngineering Excellence\nPromote high-quality architecture and ensure integrity and performance across delivery. Establish secure coding, test-driven development, observability, and performance standards as defaults. Support ongoing learning and certifications to stay current. Advance adoption of modern methodologies like Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD for scalable solutions. Cultivate technical rigor, innovation, and accountability within the team.\nInnovation & Thought Leadership\nApply AI-driven design for user-focused solutions that support business, architecture, and delivery goals. Assess modern technologies to guide strategy. Drive innovation in delivery methods and reusable tools to boost efficiency. Promote best practices and continuous improvement across teams.\nClient Engagement & Solutioning\nEngage with clients to assess their needs and provide guidance throughout projects. Additionally, assist pre-sales teams by preparing estimates, demonstrating products, and developing proposals. Maintain strong client relationships to ensure ongoing satisfaction and deliver value.\nTeam Management & Mentorship\nLead cross-functional teams to encourage learning, collaboration, and technical excellence. Review work, give feedback, and support team members' growth.\nQuality & Compliance\nEnsure secure, compliant, and reliable solution delivery through secure coding, test driven- development, observability, design reviews, and quality gates across all engagements.\nOther\nEmbody our culture and values\nQualifications\nQualifications & Preferred Skills\n20+ years of experience in software/solution engineering, with at least 10-15 years as Architect and Delivery leadership roles.\nProven experience in leading delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary projects.\nStrong understanding of delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, etc.) and adopt emerging practices for faster Go To Market (GTM) using Hyper Velocity Engineering \nExcellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and team leadership skills.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).\nRelevant certifications are a plus.\nAreas of Expertise\nEnterprise Data Architecture & Modern Platforms\nLead enterprise data modernization initiatives in close collaboration with Customer, team and Enterprise Architects, spanning assessment, target-state design, and optimization.\nDrive and influence architectural decisions for modern data platforms, providing hands-on delivery leadership across Microsoft, Microsoft Purview, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and partner platforms such as Snowflake and Teradata.\nPartner with Customer teams, cross functional Architects on workload characterization, environment separation, capacity planning, balancing performance, scalability, resilience, and total cost of ownership.\nShare accountability with Delivery Managers, Development team for production rollout, owning performance outcomes, operational stability, and long-term sustainability through continuous optimization and issue resolution.\nData Engineering & Large Scale Data Processing\nHands-on leadership in designing, building, and operating large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, and HDInsight.\nOwn data engineering standards, SLAs, SLOs, and performance baselines, while actively implementing and reviewing critical pipelines.\nLead and perform performance assessments, compute sizing, partition strategies and concurrency management.\nDrive AIOps, DataOps practices in monitoring, alerting, capacity scaling, and continuous optimization.\nDatabase Platforms, Performance & Capacity Engineering\nHands-on expertise across Azure SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Cosmos DB, and columnar analytics engines.\nLead and execute database performance assessments, capacity planning, and workload sizing for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads.\nPerform query tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing strategy design, wait state analysis (e.g., CXPACKET), and storage/I/O optimization.\nAccountable for delivering predictable, scalable, and cost efficient database performance in production.\nAI First Data Engineering & Unify Your Data\nDesign and implement agentic AI workflows that assist in data discovery, preparation, profiling, validation, and performance optimization.\nActively adopt and promote use large language models to automate data engineering tasks such as schema inference, pipeline generation, metadata enrichment, documentation, and tuning recommendations.\nLead AI powered data wrangling solutions, while maintaining governance, explainability, and human in the loop controls.\nAccountable for operationalizing autonomous assisted data platforms in real customer environments.\nAI & Advanced Analytics Enablement\nArchitecture definition to integrate AI and ML workloads into data platforms, including performance tuning and cost optimization.\nDesign, lead to implement, and optimize solutions using AI Agents where viable using Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Services, including RAG pipelines and inference workloads.\nEnsure AI and analytics solutions are grounded help improving trust, explainability, and relevance of AI outputs.\nTune AI systems for retrieval latency, inference performance, concurrency, and cost, using telemetry and real usage patterns.\nEmbed observability, monitoring, drift detection, and performance metrics into production AI systems.\nEnsure Responsible AI principles are applied in all AI solutions.\nBalance governance, performance, and usability by implementing governance by default patterns that scale self-service access without introducing friction\nSolutioning, Pre-Sales & Technical Leadership\nLead technical solutioning, estimations, and support architecture design during pre-sales and delivery shaping. \nTranslate business outcomes into clear architecture, execution plans, and risk mitigation strategies. \nInfluence technical direction across multiple teams and engagements. \nAct as a trusted advisor to clients and internal leadership \nFrontier Consulting Skills\nFull Stack Engineering \nLead rapid prototyping, pilots, and early-stage deployments for enterprise customers \nAbility to go from whiteboard to production with minimal friction \nStrong troubleshooting and production support expertise, including performance, reliability, and security issues \nOutcome driven engineering focused on business impact, not activity \nAdopt Hyper Velocity Engineering (HVE) methodology for rapid production deployment of AI Services\nBuilding reusable assets, accelerators, and reference implementations \nComfortable operating in ambiguous, high-pressure environments with C-Level customer stakeholders \nPersonal Attributes\nPassion for technology and innovation.\nAbility to interact confidently with senior leaders and clients.\nStrong decision-making skills and a consultative mindset.\nFlexibility to manage a fast-moving, ambiguous consulting environment.\nCommitment to continuous learning on emerging technologies\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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