Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Digital

## About the role - Business-to-tech translation. Partner with PM and business-ops leaders across GWS and CELA to turn ambiguous business problems into clear solution approaches with a defensible build-vs-buy-vs-adopt recommendation. - Technical direction & foresight. 1P product partnership. Build-vs-buy stewardship. Bring rigor and honesty to make-vs-buy decisions; be willing and able to say, "don't build this" and route to a 1P or 3P solution when that serves the business better. - Architecture across domains. Provide cross-cutting architectural guidance spanning workplace operations (GWS) and legal/immigration/contracts (CELA), ensuring coherence, reuse, and a common technical foundation as the two orgs converge. - Agentic-AI leadership. Shape the reference architecture for our agentic services and AI-native engineering direction, in partnership with the SWE managers and Engineering Excellence. - Established, active relationships with the key 1P product teams our roadmap depends on. ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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. - 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. - 5+ years experience as a technology or solution architect, setting technical direction for enterprise-scale platforms, with focus on security and scale. - 3+ years of architecting and/or building enterprise-scale Agentic platforms. - Prior depth in at least one of the domains - digital workplace or legal tech, along with the appetite to master unfamiliar domains. - Experience in Demonstrated build-vs-buy judgment. - Ability to no to building and ground to the business outcomes. - Track record influencing product/partner teams without formal authority; credible in senior technical rooms. - Strong grounding in AI/agentic architecture and modern cloud (Azure) patterns. - Gravitas to challenge and align senior engineering managers on technical direction. ## Nice to have - (None specified in the original text) ## What we offer - (None specified in the original text) ## About us - (None specified in the original text)