Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. The Fabric Data & Telemetry team is part of the Fabric Platform. It is responsible for all platform capabilities in support of “observability” – From telemetry creation (Application Programming Interface-APIs, event repositories, etc.), through routing and storage, to eventual consumption tools and data models. This observability is critical for the service and business and supports pillars such as live-site monitoring, diagnostics, analytics for operations and product development, and ensuring Fabric customers have high quality data for their own observability needs. The charter of the team is to provide Fabric stakeholders, partners and clients with world-class data for running the Service and Business. The team and its members work across different codebases, disciplines, platform components and observability pillars. In particular, the team is required to function within the service core, applying classic cloud and software engineering practices and tools, as well as a core-data team, applying (big) data-engineering and analytical practices and tools. The Fabric Platform Data and Telemetry team is hiring a Principal Cloud Observability and Data Architect to help the team modernize and scale the platform using cutting edge technologies and Fabric/Azure-Data stack specifically, while contributing to the full stack of team ownership, from core cloud-platform to data architectures. 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 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** • Work with partners and stakeholders to establish platform and feature requirements, analyze and suggest options and strategies, provide architectures and designs, oversee and contribute to implementation, be accountable for the quality, security and compliance of owned systems and code. • For the modernization of the telemetry data platform, work with stakeholders and partners to shape the vision and define a roadmap. Work with Data Team PMs and Engineering managers to scope and breakdown the work deliverables. Identify dependencies, needs and gaps and collaborate with partner services and teams to leverage and impact cross-organizational architectures, designs and processes. • Within the Fabric service platform and components, provide guidance, solutions, architectures, etc., for the optimization of observability, in terms of telemetry and event-systems effectiveness, trustworthiness, cost, security, compliance and so on. • For the data platform that transforms the above telemetry/event-systems to support the organization’s analytical needs, provide data solutions and architectures, consultation regarding data models and pipelines. Introduce tools and processes for ensuring data quality, availability, scalability, and performance etc. • Ensure the data-platform leverages Fabric and Azure-Data offerings in proposed solutions. Provide feedback to the feature teams to impact these offerings both from client's perspective (e.g., suggested client-facing improvements) and from internal perspective, e.g., performance or platform-integration improvements. • Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + 6+ years of cloud software engineering experience. + 4+ years in architectural or cloud-services design role. + 3+ years of cloud data experience, leveraging and/or designing database technologies, data transformations, event streaming, etc. **Other Requirements** Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. **Preferred/Additional Qualifications** + Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + Experience in data modeling, analytics and visualization, preferably using Fabric and Azure Data offerings, such as Power-BI, Data Warehousing, etc. + Experienced in advanced analytics, leveraging near-real time, AI, etc. + Demonstrate broad understanding of data regulations, e.g., GDPR, Schrems-II, etc. Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 7th, 2025. \#azdat \#azuredata Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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