Job Description

The Partner Engineering Platform (PEP) Reporting team at Microsoft is seeking a Data Architect to design and evolve large-scale distributed data platforms for Windows OEM telemetry. The role involves defining architecture patterns, shaping data flows, and ensuring the platform meets strict performance and governance requirements while collaborating with various teams to deliver AI-powered insights.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering
5+ years of experience designing and architecting distributed data systems or analytics platforms
Deep experience with Microsoft data technologies, including Microsoft Kusto (ADX) clusters and advanced KQL
Experience architecting real-time analytics solutions
Proficiency with data security, privacy, governance, and compliance best practices for enterprise data systems

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and maintain distributed data platforms supporting OEM telemetry, reliability analytics, compliance signals, and AI-driven data products
Establish end-to-end data architecture patterns for ingestion, curation, enrichment, aggregation, and publication
Own schema modeling, partitioning strategy, indexing, caching, and performance tuning for large-scale datasets
Develop architectural blueprints enabling real-time or near real-time slicing, filtering, and aggregation across billions of records
Drive availability, resiliency, cost optimization, and governance across high-scale data workloads
Partner with engineering teams to establish best practices for data quality, observability, lineage, security, and access patterns
Guide engineers in building scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines
Collaborate closely with PEP TPMs on roadmap definition, platform migrations, and data-driven initiative planning

Benefits

Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.

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