Senior Consultant Apps (AI + Full stack )
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Job Summary
Microsoft Industry Solutions Global Center for Innovation and Delivery (GCID) delivers endtoend industryaligned solutions by accelerating the adoption of Microsoft technologies. With a global team of 1000 professionals GCID offers experienced consultants the opportunity to deliver highimpact enterprisescale solutions.
As aSenior Consultant Full Stack AI Application Developer you will design and deliver modern cloudnativeand AIpowered applications that drive measurable business will contribute across the solution lifecycleas an advisor architect and handson engineeron complex highvisibility customer ideal candidate combinesstrong fullstack engineeringexpertisewith applied AI capabilitiesdeep knowledge ofCloudservices and a consulting mindset focused on customer value. You will ensure strategic architectural and operational alignment while advocating for scalable secure and welldesigned solutions.
Responsibilities
Lead the technical delivery of complex cloudnative and AIenabled engagements contributing as a handson individual contributor and where required leading engineering teams to ensure highquality predictable outcomes.
Define and drive the technology strategy for large and complex customer engagements ensuring solutions are scalable secure and aligned to businessobjectives architectural best practices and Microsoft reference architectures.
Design develop and deploy solutions on Microsoft Azure accelerating customer value through the effective use of Microsoft technologies platforms and delivery methodologies.
Applies usercentered design principles to translate customer needs into clear technical requirements and scalable solution designs through iterative prototyping and feedback.
Providedeliveryleadership by setting technical priorities estimating effort managing dependencies making disciplined tradeoffs and driving successful releases.
Ensure engineering excellence and solution quality with accountability for the overall efficacy performance security and compliance of technical delivery within assigned engagements.
Identify assess and manage technical risks and dependencies across projects including defining mitigation strategies handling escalations and planning for both short and longterm delivery risks.
Apply information security compliance and assurance standards tomaintainstakeholder confidence and meet customer regulatory and Microsoft governance requirements.
Drive innovation and digital transformationleveragingexisting intellectual property (IP) reusable assets and best practices to improve delivery predictability and speed.
Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including Sales accountaligned teams and peers to articulate technical value propositions and support the expansion and adoption of Microsoft cloud and AI solutions with strategic customers.
Contribute to thought leadership and continuous improvement fostering new ways of working that enhance engineering productivity solution quality and responsiveness to evolving customer needs.
Technical Delivery
Follows the capacity process outlined by Resource Insights Capacity and Capability (RICC) team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
Leads meetings with customers/partners to understand business needs. Uses business industry and technology strategies to map customer/partner requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions. Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements.
Participates in project planning and develops project documents by identifying the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners. Identifies technical and business risks in programs and proposes mitigations. Assists project managers/architects in preparing for steering committee (e.g. developing artifacts). Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Generates and delivers Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
Implements solutions and provides oversight and leadership on workstreams across domains while adhering to Industry Solutions processes. Aligns solutions with the intent of the architecture. Manages escalations analyzes situations and coordinates appropriate resources to resolve issues by following delivery practices considering cost implications and engaging in conversations with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Customer Service and Support Project Manager Solution Architect Product Group) as needed.
Proactively manages executive-level customer/partner/stakeholder relationships to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction determine the root cause and establish recovery actions to improve the experience. Works with account team to ensure One Microsoft approach. Shares lessons learned with workgroup and consultant community.
Intellectual Property Management
Acts as an ambassador in the consumption of intellectual property (IP) by leveraging and/or modifying existing IP or creating repeatable content where applicable. Provides feedback on Managed IP for continuous improvement reports IP gaps reviews IP to be considered for harvesting and curation and ensures it is logged for consumption. Improves Industry Solutions offerings quality and collaborates with portfolio and solution teams by providing feedback.
Business Development
Identifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies. Facilitates as appropriate other team members to scale the business with existing customers by articulating value propositions of strategic Microsoft products and services and developing new offerings for the domain. Drives innovation and digital transformation. Ensures the use of the existing intellectual property (IP).
Readiness
Learns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by domain leadership team. Identifies certifications and readiness plans in partnership with World Wide Learning. Leads or participates in relevant technical communities and conducts training sessions to evangelize technology and/or offerings based on availability. Mentors team members and acts as a technical advisor for stakeholders by providing thought leadership articulation of solutions value and outcomes of business strategies.
Operational Excellence
Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy. Follows Microsoft policies compliance and procedures (e.g. Enterprise Services Authorization Policy Standards of Business Conduct labor logging expenses travel guidelines). Leads by example and guides team members on operational tasks readiness and compliance.
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Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
10 years of overall professional experiencein software engineering application development and solution delivery with a strong focus on enterprisescale customerfacing engagements.
5 years of experience in customerfacing delivery leadership
Bachelors degree incomputer science engineering or a related field. Advanced or highereducation qualifications are a plus.
Microsoft and cloud technology certificationsare preferred including but not limited to:
AZ204 (Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure)
AI102 (Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution)
MCSD / MCSEor equivalent modern cloud and AI certifications.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
FullStack Application Development
Strong experience designing building and deploying business and missioncritical applications (C#) .NET Web APIs .
Fullstack developmentexpertiseacross UI API service domain data and integration layers withproficiencyin C# JavaScript TypeScript Angular or React HTML5 and CSS/SCSS.
Deep understanding of software architecture patterns and antipatterns for largescale systems including MVC CQRS and Saga with a focus on performance scalability and resiliency.
Excellent foundation in software engineering principles data structures algorithms testing debugging and analytical problemsolving.
Proficiencywith cloud data platforms including Azure SQLCosmosDBAzureDatabase for PostgreSQL MySQLAzureSQLManaged InstanceandMariaDB.
Experience creating reusable application frameworks and shared components that address crosscutting concerns such as logging security resiliency and configuration management.
Handson experience with multithreaded and parallel programming and highthroughput service design.
AI Application Development & Generative AI
Strong handson experiencepreferablywith Azure AI Foundry Azure AI Search Cognitive Search Vector Search and RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) patterns.
Provenexpertisein building enterprisegrade LLM and agentic AI solutions using Semantic KernelLangChainLangGraphAutoGen and developer copilots such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor.
Practical experience in prompt engineering prompt optimization evaluation frameworks and reliability tuning to deliver safe highquality AI outputs.
Advanced Pythonexpertisein implementingRAG pipelines vector workflows agent orchestration and AI evaluation frameworks.
Strong understanding and application of Responsible AI principles including safety fairness transparency and governance (mandatory).
Cloud Architecture Platforms & DevOps
Extensive experience in designing implementingoperating tuning and troubleshooting largescale cloud solutions on Microsoft Azureor any public cloud.
Handsonexpertiseimplementing microservices and serverless architectures using Kubernetes Azure Functions Service Fabric and related platforms.
Strong experience defining and implementing CI/CD pipelines automated testing and release strategies including Blue/Green and Canary deployments.
Deep experience with cloud monitoring and endtoend telemetry ensuring observability reliability and production readiness.
Security Compliance & Zero Trust
Strongexpertisein securitybydesign principles including encryptionauthenticationand authorization (AuthN/AuthZ).
Deep knowledge of Zero Trust architecture IAM securebydefault design threat modeling compliance standards andDevSecOpspractices.
Handson experience with leastprivilege access assumebreach concepts microsegmentation continuous monitoring SAST/DAST and secure CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with security and monitoring tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool Azure Sentinel and Splunk.
Consulting Transformation & Industry Experience
Proven experience delivering largescale digital transformation initiatives including cloud migration and hybrid modernization programs. Brings architectural breadth through exposure to opensource technologies and platforms. Has good exposure to Azure/AWS/GCP along with industry experience across domains such as financial services government healthcare manufacturing and retail/supply chain.
Good to have
Customer Co-Innovation Mindset & Customer Enablement
Lead rapid prototyping pilots and early-stage production deployments for enterprise customers accelerating time-to-value
Translate from whiteboard to production with minimal friction engineering alongside customer teams to unblock delivery and adoption
Own troubleshooting across performance reliability cost security and data quality delivering outcome-driven engineering in ambiguous high-pressure environments
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Embody ourcultureandvalues
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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