Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers, with responsibility of deep technical mentorship and career direction of team members.

• Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of the future architecture for proven highly scalable, resilient, durable, maintainable, performant services and user experiences.

• Lead and actively participate in the full software development life cycle:

• Create design and architecture documents.

• Review artifacts and code.

• Ensure safe release of updated experiences, with special consideration for security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility.

• Foster a data driven approach with focus on the customer.

• Collaborate with multiple teams across Microsoft for joint delivery of customer experiences.

• Collaborate with multiple functions to drive the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
• Evolve development guidelines, practices, systems, and tools to meet a world where client and services development and delivery is moving faster than ever.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• Advanced years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Java Script, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Extensive years of industry experience designing, building, testing, shipping, and maintaining software and services.
• Strong ability to attract, hire, and retain top talent.
• Excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to operate at a high level in a fast paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities and ambiguity.
• Ability to analyse, interpret, and communicate data to uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Excellence in software engineering practices - system design, coding, testing, and monitoring, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in building and running proven highly available, highly scalable, reliable, concurrent, distributed systems.
• Expertise in safe release, deployment and maintenance of cloud services using experimentation and telemetry.
• Experience with one or more of the following - C#, ASP.NET, Java Script, Service Fabric, Web Services, APIs.
• Deep understanding of web related protocols and standards, such as HTTP, SSL, REST and JSON.
• Passion for making software engineering more efficient by designing and developing solutions at scale and make data driven decisions.
• Deep commitment to inclusiveness and diversity.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Java Script, OR Python
  • OR 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, Java Script, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• People management experience.

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