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Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.\nMicrosoft Services India Global Delivery delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are looking for exceptional architects who have a passion to lead large, complex, innovative programs for customers-now with a focus on AI-driven transformation.\nThe Data & AI Architect is a critical role in the solution implementation lifecycle, cutting across all phases. Architects are technical leaders with a strong understanding of both application and AI technologies, and the ability to apply them to drive business outcomes. This role leads solution architecture, technical design, and governance throughout the lifecycle of Azure Cloud and AI-based solutions. 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