Principal Software Architect

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Solutions engineering team is leading the delivery of first party solutions and applications to health & life sciences clients powered by Microsoft Azure and AI to transform how we work and bring Microsoft’s mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more to life. We are currently hiring a Principal Software Architect to join the team to work on healthcare orientated Copilots.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Architect to join our team. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our ideas are better, our products are better, and our customers are better served.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

We are looking for passionate professional with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.   

Responsibilities include: 

• Design: Oversees, influences, and owns efforts and design discussions for the overall system architecture of entire products/solutions that are deeply complex and often ambiguous. Owns creating proposals for architecture and design documents, and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
  
  
• Coding: Provides technical leadership during code reviews for a solution/product area to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature. Ensures coding standards are followed.
  
  
• Implement: Breaks down long-term project vision into milestones. Guides other members for project estimation and escalates only the most critical issues. · Leads the creation of implementation framework as necessary, following industry standards. Leads implementation and deployment of the solution in the existing framework. components to meet differing business objectives. Leads efforts to assure that solutions are deployed safely.
  
  
• Reliability and Supportability: Proficient in design and integration across teams or multiple products on telemetry in systems and products to provide feedback on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and implement safety mechanisms resulting in iterative feedback loops resulting in subsequent designs. Ensures solutions are scalable, financially responsible, and meet capture/storage guidelines. Sets expectations for outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
  
  
• Engineering Excellence: Shares and teaches others practices about new tools and strategies. Provides technical leadership through efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility across solutions and teams. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. Applies, extrapolates, and helps to create practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying practices for new code development. Leads efforts to initiate and maintain communication with key partners across Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: