Core Services Engineering builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster and more securely every day. Core Services Engineering employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

Do you love building successful software engineering teams? Are you passionate about data and unleashing the potential insights within? If so, come join Microsoft Core Services Engineering as a Software Engineering Manager and help envision and build the industry leading Management Reporting capability.

We are looking for someone who thrives in a diverse team setting, enabling teams to reach their best capability. Responsibilities include recruiting and retaining talent, supporting teams in cross organizational project delivery, building strong relationships with Program Managers and business partners and enabling organizational learning.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

• Lead software engineering team in adherence to engineering standards - Deliver with high quality and efficiency
• Effectively communicate and set the vision and direction for the engineering team
• Review and coach team on designs and code
• Collaboration with other engineering teams
• Support team members career growth through mentoring, succession planning and working to find appropriate growth opportunities for employees
• Provide regular feedback and manage performance of employees
• Recruiting and staffing of the team
• Identify new opportunities to help meet our customers’ needs

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience including experience leading development teams
• 7+ years experience architecting, designing and implementing complex enterprise solutions and services
• 3+ years experience in modern engineering practices, including but not limited to agile/lean, DevOps, CI/CD
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required

Preferred, not required:

• Passion for BI, Big Data and Data Science
• Experience in Spark
• Experience in distributed systems design and implementation
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of people

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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