Principal Software Engineering Manager - Microsoft

Microsoft Ireland is home to several engineering teams that work on products and services such as CFS Financial Experiences, Microsoft Digital, Microsoft Sign team, Identity, OMEX, Office 365, Teams, Azure Reliability, Dynamics 365, etc.

Some of these teams are focused on User Interfaces, whereas others are more focused on Backend services or Infrastructure. Infrastructure refers to software that is common and other groups depend on.

As we are adding and growing more of such (usually) DevOps engineering teams, we are also looking for people to manage and grow them. In this job, you will have access to a variety of experienced professionals to help you expand your knowledge and build this team in which members can thrive and establish a culture that is aligned with the Microsoft core values. You will collaborate with other groups, to define and deliver new and exciting projects.

The code your team works on powers the world’s largest application service impacting hundreds of millions of individuals every single day. Our organization continuous to push the envelope to deliver more value to our customers while making our systems more efficient, which provides huge technical challenges and growth opportunities for both you and the team members.

Some of the teams recruiting for a Principal Software Engineering Manager at the moment are:

CFS Financial Experiences team, within Commerce and Ecosystems (C +E) as part of the Cloud + AI organisation, builds, supports, and transforms the processes and services that our partners around the world use every day. In this team, you will have the opportunity to lead, design and develop creative and compelling solutions that accomplishes business outcomes in an automated, timely, cost-effective, compliant, and secure way. The Financial Experiences team is responsible for building world class services and solutions that allows Microsoft to run financial processes at scale, remain competitive, agile, and be a world class industry reference. We build and extend solutions that enable Microsoft to perform financial planning, procurement, and case management, through amazing experiences that are simple, delightful, and responsive to the speed of business.

You will lead and develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies and modern engineering practices. Delivery of solutions will be done via a DevOps model where success not only includes delivering business value but having a cost-effective, reliable, stable and supportable solution. We partner closely with several engineering teams to ensure a great solution is delivered that can help our customers around the world. You will be an integral part of the digital transformation that is happening in Microsoft.

• The ideal candidate is a seasoned Engineering manager with a proven track record of managing the team and delivering programs in a collaborative feature crew structure.
• The ideal candidate will love taking on big challenges and working to align diverse teams to a common outcome that focuses on creating value for customers. This person will have an infectious and relentless pursuit of growth and improvement both for themselves as well as their solutions.

The Identity engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s online identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. 

Our teams are seeking experienced and passionate engineering leaders to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s online presence. You will have the opportunity to build top quality data and engineering platform that improves customer security posture, through horizontal policy enforcement and password protection. This team has both machine learning experts and engineering guru. You can learn and grow expertise in both fields. The projects in this team are highly visible at CVP level. If you are result driven and seek fast career growth, this is the team for you.

Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth. 

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! 

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• Build and manage a world class team of software engineers who are eager to learn, committed to professional growth and have impact.
• Foster a team culture that is aligned with the Microsoft Corporate values.
• Collaborate with other teams that are often geographically spread, to define, plan and oversee projects that your team will own or participates

• Commitment to a growth mindset, and customer focus.
• Excellent planning, execution, people management and mentoring skills.
• Advanced technical problem solving and design skills.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent degree.
• Extensive experience in software development, in C#, Java, C++ or equivalent.
• Experience operating in a Continuous Deployment environment

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.

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