Principal Enterprise Architect, CTO Office, US Commercial Industries

Microsoft

  • USA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 15 days ago
We are the CTO Office for Microsoft's US Commercial Industries, and we are looking to hire a team of Principal Enterprise Architects, who each be aligned to the following industries: 1.) Health Life Sciences; 2.) Financial Services; 3.) Manufacturing & Mobility; 4.)Retail Consumer Goods.We are seeking visionary and strategic principal level leaders with depth and breadth in the aligned industries to drive the evolution of our focus on delivering outcome-based solutions by embedding co-engineering and co-innovation practices and AI transformation capabilities across industry operating units. This role will be instrumental in shaping how we co-create with customers, accelerate their digital transformation, and scale AI adoption through deep customer engagement and innovation across industry operating units.Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of 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 to achieve our mission.Responsibilities:Strategic Influence & Leadership
  • Partner with operating unit leaders to define and embed co-engineering and co-innovation models that align with customer outcomes.
  • Champion complex delivery and AI transformation initiatives that empower customer engineering teams to deliver scalable, repeatable, and impactful solutions.
  • Serve as a thought leader and change agent, influencing cross-functional stakeholders to adopt modern engineering and AI practices.
  • Partner with industry operating unit leadership to establish and build proven industry capabilities to accelerate customer outcomes and innovation
Customer Engineering Innovation
  • Lead the design and deployment of reusable engineering frameworks, toolkits, and accelerators that enable co-development with customers.
  • Drive the integration of AI capabilities into customer success engagements, ensuring alignment with business value and ethical AI principles.
  • Foster a culture of experimentation, agility, and continuous learning within customer engineering teams.
Operational Excellence
  • Establish governance, metrics, and best practices to measure the impact of co-engineering and co-innovation on customer outcomes.
  • Collaborate with product, industry advisors, consulting, and account teams to ensure feedback loops and innovation cycles are tightly integrated.
  • Scale successful models within the operating units through playbooks, communities of practice, and enablement programs by aligning with operating unit leadership, industry advisors, consulting, and account teams
Talent Development & Culture
  • Build and mentor a high-performing team of customer engineers and AI specialists.
  • Promote diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety to unlock creativity and innovation.
  • Inspire teams to embrace a growth mindset and customer-obsessed culture.
Other
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andQualifications:Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technical program/product management, coding, software development/delivery work
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of enterprise customer-facing experience.
  • Hands-on experience with complex production applications that use Azure, AWS, GCP, and large-scale, on-premise deployments with a focus on one or more of the following:
  • Designing and implementing production cloud data estates
  • Developing and implementing production AI applications from first hypothesis to production
  • Network and application security at cloud-scale
  • 3+ years enterprise experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Business maturity and experience working with upper-level executives and upper-level customer stakeholders.
  • Ability to work independently but seek guidance, coaching, and assistance from both direct leadership and the Americas CTO as needed.
  • Experience leading co-engineering, co-innovation, and complex delivery programs with enterprise customers.
  • Experience leading co-engineering, co-innovation, and complex delivery programs with enterprise customers.
  • Familiarity with AI governance, responsible AI frameworks, and ethical deployment practices.
  • Background in consulting, technical sales, or customer engineering roles.
Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Month Day, Year.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .#SEO #MCAPSA

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