Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is seeking a Principal Consultant, Apps & AI to lead complex AI-centric customer engagements from discovery through production. The role combines hands-on engineering, consulting judgment, and delivery leadership to architect secure, governed Azure AI and modern application solutions, manage risks and stakeholders, and build reusable delivery capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex AI engineering and application-development engagements from discovery through production, owning delivery decisions and customer outcomes
- Serve as the senior technical leader for complex AI transformation engagements, guiding multidisciplinary consulting and engineering teams
- Architect and deliver enterprise-scale AI, agentic AI, and cloud-native solutions leveraging Azure AI, Copilot, and modern application platforms
- Translate business objectives into executable delivery strategies, technical roadmaps, and scalable solution architectures while managing risk, resources, and stakeholder expectations
- Establish technical governance across security, Responsible AI, quality, scalability, operational readiness, and platform reliability
- Shape and grow consulting opportunities through contributions to solution strategy, estimates, technical proposals, and SOW development
- Drive AI-first delivery transformation by leveraging GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, accelerate delivery, enhance quality, and scale consulting impact
- Build organizational capability by mentoring technical talent and developing reusable frameworks, accelerators, and AI-first delivery methodologies
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, driving strategic alignment, executive sponsorship, and successful business outcomes across customer organizations
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field AND 6+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business application architecture, and enterprise solution delivery, leading large-scale cloud and AI transformation initiatives
- OR equivalent experience
- 8+ years' experience modern application solutions, leading multidisciplinary teams from strategy and architecture through implementation
- Deep hands-on expertise in modern application development, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, microservices, DevOps, security, identity, and operational excellence
- Experience designing and implementing Generative AI and agentic AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, agentic frameworks, RAG architectures, and orchestration patterns
- Demonstrated success leading customer-facing consulting engagements, driving architecture decisions, mitigating delivery risk, and achieving measurable business outcomes
- Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and consulting skills, with the ability to influence C-level and senior technology leaders
- Technical or Professional Certification in the relevant domain
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