Senior Consultant Apps - (AI + Full stack )

Overview Microsoft Industry Solutions – Global Center for Innovation and Delivery (GCID) delivers end‑to‑end, industry‑aligned solutions by accelerating the adoption of Microsoft technologies. With a global team of 1,000+ professionals, GCID offers experienced consultants the opportunity to deliver high‑impact, enterprise‑scale solutions.

As a Senior Consultant – Full Stack AI Application Developer, you will design and deliver modern, cloud‑native and AI‑powered applications that drive measurable business outcomes. You will contribute across the solution lifecycle—as an advisor, architect, and hands‑on engineer—on complex, high‑visibility customer engagements. The ideal candidate combines strong full‑stack engineering expertise with applied AI capabilities, deep knowledge of Cloud services, and a consulting mindset focused on customer value. You will ensure strategic, architectural, and operational alignment while advocating for scalable, secure, and well‑designed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of complex, cloud‑native and AI‑enabled engagements, contributing as a hands‑on individual contributor and, where required, leading engineering teams to ensure high‑quality, predictable outcomes.
• Define and drive the technology strategy for large and complex customer engagements, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to business objectives, 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 user‑centered design principles to translate customer needs into clear technical requirements and scalable solution designs through iterative prototyping and feedback.
• Provide delivery leadership by setting technical priorities, estimating effort, managing dependencies, making disciplined trade‑offs, 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 long‑term delivery risks.
• Apply information security, compliance, and assurance standards to maintain stakeholder confidence and meet customer, regulatory, and Microsoft governance requirements.
• Drive innovation and digital transformation, leveraging existing intellectual property (IP), reusable assets, and best practices to improve delivery predictability and speed.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including Sales, account‑aligned 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, cons…