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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.

The Windows Fundamentals team is responsible for ensuring Windows delivers delightful reliability, performance, battery life, sustainability and compatibility to our large (over one Billion) and growing user base. This role offers the opportunity to contribute as a mentor and leader across assorted business functions within the organization. We are building a team where diversity of thought and background is valued as strongly as technical skills, and where everyone is encouraged to come up with new ideas to make our customers’ lives better. 

If you love the pursuit of excellence and are inspired by the challenges that come through driving innovations that impact how the world lives, works and plays, then we invite you to an exciting opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within the Windows + Devices Fundamentals Team.

Responsibilities

• As a Principal Architect in the Windows Fundamentals team, you will mentor members of the team and help them grow their technical expertise and communication skills.

• You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with organization leaders, and work across a supportive group of like-minded Architects across disciplines who deeply interact across all software disciplines.

• You will contribute your leadership and collaboration skills to help define or refine our overall business and technical vision, including the “architectural how” of building scalable architectures with great fundamentals (such as performance, power, and reliability) and with high engineering rigor.

Qualifications

Required Qualification

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience 

• 7+ years of relevant industry software design and development experience, working with a mainstream programming/scripting language (C++, C#, Java, etc...) 

• Experience collaborating/ability to collaborate with teams across different time zones and geographies 

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills with great attention to detail .

Preferred Qualifiation

• Understanding of the Windows operating system

• Experience designing secure and scalable services on Azure or other cloud technologies

• Experience with AI tools and big data platforms is a plus

• Ability to quickly ramp up on new technologies 

• Ability to resolve ambiguities effectively, prioritize and drive projects to completion, prioritize between multiple needs and adapt to changing circumstances 

• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .