Principal Engineer Architect

Windows is the best OS experience on the planet. Windows helps more than a billion people around the world to Do Great Things, and we are looking for Principal Engineer Architect to drive critical growth bets across multiple Windows customers and segments. The Windows Experiences team is responsible for delivering seamless and integrated AI experiences in Windows for consumers, information workers, frontline workers, gamers, and others. In this role.  You’ll partner closely with other teams in Windows, as well as across Microsoft. Windows is a complex and mature product, and one of the largest codebases on the planet. We have ambitious business goals, and the architecture we have built over decades can make some changes more difficult to achieve. One of our key high-level goals is to ensure that our technologies, architecture, and decisions accelerate our ability to achieve our business goals, rather than stand in the way.  Ensuring we make quality decisions requires establishing, maintaining, and building strength in our engineering organization. You will be responsible for identifying long-term architectural investments, solving cross-organizational technical challenges, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring that our platform evolves to meet the demands of an AI-first future. This role requires exceptional strategic thinking, deep technical expertise, and the ability to influence senior leaders across organizations. 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.

Technical Leadership for the WXP IDC org You will be seen as and will be playing the technical leadership role at the WXP IDC GM level where you will be setting up, reviewing, signing off and contributing to the technical and architectural decisions made by various GEM teams across the org. You will act as driver, consultant, bouncing board and champion for such technical choices and directions. You will be expected to represent the GEM and their projects at Director level communities to be able to align and bring back the cohesiveness in the technical and architectural stream.  Contributing to the Architecture Community Great ideas come from everywhere. Our goal is for every group to have architecture representation, ensuring that everyone gets their feedback heard and the design help they need. You will also be responsible to be deeply connected with the other Principal IC community within W+D and being deeply involved with the top issues they are helping with and bring new issues to that group for W+D India that will most benefit from their expertise.  Writing it Down & building infrastructure The cumulative decisions we all make on an individual level, in combination, form our overall system architecture. You will drive and contribute to producing documents that support easy offline sharing, commenting and review of the important points of any significant choice. To reduce process overhead, we will look to you to drive and contribute to defining templates that enable quick specifications for large-scale, multi-organizational architectures while ensuring consistent detail and review flow. Review Forums You will be here to help, supporting from one-pager reviews to get early design insights and coaching, all the way through any needed reviews. This individual will set up forums for review of their team’s work. Planning and Strategy While we encourage teams to dream the future of Windows unrestricted by technical realities, we also understand that technical realities exist that make some efforts more costly or difficult to achieve than others.  Identifying these “big rocks,” up-levelling