Senior Engineering Manager - CXP

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Description

Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure Customer Experience Platform (CXP) team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work.

The Azure CXP PRIMO organization within Azure CXP is responsible for building great products to enable Customer Success at scale, focusing on Customer Troubleshooting, Diagnostics, Workload Resiliency, Service Health Experiences, and Azure Advisor within the Azure Portal. We also build, manage, and operate critical systems required for Microsoft Cloud operations at scale, across Incident Management & Response, Quality, and Customer Engagement & Observability. We are an international, diverse team of engineers, product management, technical program management, and data science professionals. We are known for consistently innovating and creating new solutions, utilizing the latest in AI technologies to solve complex problems. As a team, we are empathetic to our customers' needs and driven by data to improve and grow the success of our programs.

We are looking for a collaborative and skilled senior software engineering manager with a growth mindset who would love to work in an agile development team, embrace and solve new technology challenges. As a Software Engineering Manager on this team, you will have ample opportunities to grow your team, to make a positive impact and obtain valuable experience across the spectrum of technologies, from UI to back-end. You will be a meaningful part of a growing team that values the diversity of thought and recognizes everyone for their personal strengths and desire to learn and grow.

Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 6+ years development experience

• A minimum of 1+ years of people management or other leadership roles

• Experience writing software in one or more high level language including C++, C#, and/or JavaScript/Typescript/React.

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, etc.)

• Strong problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills.

• Drive for execution and results, while delivering quality software for large scale projects.

• BS or MS in computer science or related degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience, including building large-scale web applications.

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, customer-focused products.

• Skilled in fostering cross-team collaboration to develop innovative solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to create an inclusive and engaging work environment where employees thrive.

• Experienced in growing people and teams through modeling, coaching, and showing genuine care.

• Proficient in JavaScript/Node.js/React or similar web stacks.

• Strong expertise in software design, development, problem-solving, and debugging.

• Experience with big data pipelines such as Cosmos, Kusto, Azure Data Factory, or similar technologies is a plus.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, SQL, or equivalent technologies is a plus.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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You must be legally authorized to work in Ireland to be eligible for this role.

Role and Responsibilities

• Leads, coaches, and builds a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.

• Fosters collaboration with key stakeholders, such as project managers and technical leads, to accurately gather user requirements and drive team alignment.

• Leads the charge in identifying dependencies and orchestrating the development of comprehensive design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.

• Champions code excellence, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to boost performance and maintainability, ensuring maximum effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).

• Strategically guides the team in managing multiple group’s project plans, release plans, and work items, ensuring seamless coordination with relevant stakeholders, including project managers.

• Serves as a technical beacon, acting as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) roles and vigilantly monitoring engineers across product lines, ensuring system/product/service integrity through on-call duties.

• Leads by example in product development, meticulously scaling to customer requirements, applying industry best practices for scalability and performance, and taking full accountability for any products that fall short of excellence.