Senior Software Engineering Manager

Do you want to help revolutionize how Microsoft measures, monitors, and manages its $140B business portfolio? Do you want to design and build the next generation of data platform using cutting-edge technology? Do you want to influence product engineering teams to shape the next generation of data and analytics capabilities available to millions of Microsoft customers worldwide? 

The Finance Data and Experiences organization (FD&E) builds scaled solutions that enable Microsoft to run its end-to-end business more effectively and efficiently. FD&E operates within the business and has robust delivery partnerships across Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering. Our products influence data-driven decision making across a myriad of users and audiences ranging from the company’s Leadership Team to front-line sellers working directly with customers. 

We pride ourselves on a culture of customer centricity, innovation, agility, transparency, and flexibility. We are always eager to hear new ideas and promote out of the box thinking when addressing complex processes, architecture, or technology challenges.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager who embraces the cultural values of inclusion and belonging and feels empowered to coach (work with every person in your team to help them do their best work and grow), guide (define business goals for the team, then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals), collaborate (strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we’re working with) with proven record of successfully growing talent, building large scale enterprise level solutions, supporting business intelligence, and platforms to join us in our evolution. You will take a leading role in designing, implementing, and evolving innovative capabilities tailored to solving complex scenarios.  In this Senior Software Engineering Manager role, you will also leverage cloud technologies for delivering enterprise scale applications to drive analytics and insights. In this role, you will be working in Agile development method for faster, quick wins with the quality of design, development and operating the BI components you develop. This team enables tens of thousands of Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering users (from  executives to field leaders) to effectively monitor, analyze, and make data-driven decisions on their business.  

Required/Minimum Qualifications

•  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated work experience combining people and program management skills. Data, business, and/or financial analysis experience  

• Proficient cross-group collaboration and business partnering skills   

• Problem solving mindset that craves complex challenges and business problems under a fast paced/changing environment  

• Proficiency in SQL (query writing, SSIS, SSAS); Experience with C#, .NET, Spark, etc. a plus  

• Proficient skills across the entire Microsoft Office Suite including advanced Excel skills and familiarity with DAX and Cube Value formulas for report writing; proficiency with Excel VBA a plus  

• Experience and strength in building Power BI dashboards/reports is highly desired  

• Experience performing data and business analysis  

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.

As a leader:  

• Work with PM and Business stakeholders to understand requirements, translate them into technical requirements, and partner with our PMs to plan delivery commitments.  

• Provide thought leadership, creation, and execution on new platform capabilities.  

• Continuously evaluate our processes and reporting to identify opportunities to improve, enhance, and automate existing and new deliverables.  

• Collaborate with various functions at Microsoft to develop sound business tools.  

• Hire, manage, mentor and coach group of Software Engineers to ensure timely, accurate and within scope delivery of all sprint items  

As a manager you will help your team:

• Design, architect, implement, and support key datasets that provide structured and timely access to actionable business information with the needs of the end customer always in view.  

• Develop a deep understanding of vast data sources (existing on the cloud) and know exactly how, when, and which data to use to tackle business problems.  

• Design efficient and standardized, data structures, and database schemas.  

• Develop high performing and functional code.  

• Collaborate on delivering technical excellence across the organization.  

• Establish and operate data quality assurance processes 

• Work with multiple client partner teams to implement cohesive end-to-end experiences.