Principal Software Engineering Manager

Job Description

The mission of Microsoft Digital is to power, protect, and transform Microsoft as the voice of our digital transition in the market.As part of Microsoft s Cloud + AI Group, we are responsible for building, managing, and securing the platform, products, processes, and services that powers Microsoft. We build, maintain, and implement a cloud-first approach to our technology and experiences, from custom-built business solutions developing our campus of the future and our productivity and collaboration experiences like Teams and SharePoint, to horizontal 3rd party solutions like SAP and Adobe. As a steward of Microsoft and our customer s data, a core function of Microsoft Digital is ensuring the security of every aspect of the business. Microsoft Digital is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity. Microsoft Digital s charter is also to influence and work alongside engineers across the company and with strategic partners to build and grow their cloud products and services. As customer zero, we deploy these services inside Microsoft and then share best practices with enterprise customers at scale across the globe.While you ve heard about Microsoft s Digital Transformation and how it s leading our industry to the cloud, have you ever thought of becoming a key member of the team that builds modern engineering systems and processes that drives engineering productivity and velocity in the digital enterprise As a Principal Engineering Manager within Engineering Fundamentals (EF), you will have the opportunity to be at the center of key disruptive transformations and influence our industry s Digital Transformation. We are focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of developing software at scale without sacrificing stability, quality, velocity, or code health. Our environment is start-up by nature, where we move fast and learn fast. This is a highly collaborative role, where you will lead the work across the organization and the company with other Fundamental teams globally.

• Develop and grow a healthy, diverse team, mentor great engineers, and be a great role model of a customer obsessed data-driven engineering leader.
• Setting up engineering strategy for the team both from technical and business front
• Ensuring that all programs are delivered with agreed upon business value, on time and highest quality
• Ensuring that all features embody engineering best practices, efficient and scalable architecture, elegant design with high-quality secure implementation
• Ensuring that pro-active/cooperative relationships exist within the program and project teams. Assisting team members in resolving issues
• Leading software design, Code reviews to ensure consistently high level of design and implementation
• Driving quality initiatives and live site culture throughout the product lifecycle to eliminate architecture, design and coding defects at the source
• Communicating policy & technical directions to all levels within group and cross discipline. Status reporting and presenting solutions is an integral part of the job
• Internal Partnerships - Partner with internal Microsoft teams to leverage and integrate Microsoft technology into the service portfolio
• Contributing to organizations big bet initiatives like talent hiring, people skill development, etc.

, Basic Qualifications:

• Total of 12+ years of demonstrated work experience in professional software development
• 10+ years of solid Design/Software engineering experience using large/complex application using various technologies
• 3+ years of experience in People Manager Role - build and grow teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Very strong software engineering - design, development and testing, experience.
• Proficient in Web Development, App Development, API s and test methodologies.
• Strong Architecture skills, and practical implementation experience of design patterns at scale.
• Experience shaping a DevOps culture with a vision for building and nurturing an innovative culture while maintaining a Live Site focus
• Solid object-oriented design, critical thinking, software debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Good on Estimation Practices: Effort and Schedule
• Experience in Development processes like creating technical and architectural documents and QA processes like designing test plans, functional testing, end to end scenario automation, performance and security testing.
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting and be able to research innovative solutions for challenging business/technical problems.
• Expertise and knowledge in modern engineering practices (Continuous Integration, TDD, automated deployments with integrated quality gates)
• Background with online services and cloud computing
• Great communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team
• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills

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. 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 .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Keyskills :
work effectivelybehavioral trainingenterprise businesssoftware designskill developmentdesign patternsweb developmentcomputer sciencebusiness solutionsfunctional testingonline servicescritical thinking