Did you hear about Azure Arc, the exciting announcement from Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella? Azure Arc is Microsoft’s new strategy for extending Microsoft Azure into customers’ data centers, edge computing, and even other public clouds like AWS and Google Cloud. We’re looking for a leader to join our team and help make this vision of a multi- and hybrid-cloud world a reality! Specifically, this position is opened to hire an engineering manager that will lead a new team to be built from the ground up in India!

You can learn more about it here:

Satya Nadella’s keynote announcement at Ignite - https://aka.ms/AzureArcSatya

15-minute overview of Azure Arc data services - https://aka.ms/AzureArcMechanics

Learn more – https://aka.ms/AzureArcData

We are the Azure Data and SQL Server part of the Cloud and AI organization. Working in the Azure Data and SQL Server team presents interesting challenges in technologies such as AI/machine learning, big data, cloud, and open source. We build reliable, highly scalable, and high performing distributed systems for data analytics on Azure, in customers datacenters and on the edge. Enterprise customers all over the world trust Microsoft’s data platform for mission critical systems in health care, finance, energy, scientific research, and beyond. SQL Server is the most widely used commercial database in the world. Azure data services lead the industry in cloud-based data and analytics.

We are looking for a senior thought leader and engineering manager with people management experience and a passion for data and analytics. Azure Arc is a multi-faceted strategy that spans many different teams within the Azure Data organization as well as broadly across Azure. This leader will lead one of the Azure Arc data engineering teams and work with the other Azure Arc leaders in other teams – Azure Stack, Azure IoT, Azure AI, Azure Backup, Azure Monitor, Azure Security, etc. - to bring it all together for customers.

As a leader in the organization, you will engage with and influence other senior leaders across Azure and SQL Server engineering, the Microsoft sales field, key ecosystem partners, business planning, and marketing as well as key decision makers within our customers. In this role, you will shape and define product capabilities and experiences by deeply engaging with product managers and customers as well as by using data to understand engagement and quality of experience. You will guide other engineers in delivering great product experiences through inception all the way through engaged customer usage. You will create and lead with clarity while bringing a strong bias for action. The opportunities to significantly impact the team, Azure, Microsoft, and the industry are practically limitless.

Responsibilities

Typical duties as a Principal Engineering Manager for this team:

Build and grow an engineering team through hiring and people engineering - career coaching, team building, and caring for the team

Work with customers, partners, and the PM team to define and deliver impactful capabilities for the Azure data services and SQL Server on Azure Arc

Drive user research, telemetry, and A/B testing to provide best in class data-driven insights

Work with customers and UX designers to design experiences that bring new levels of efficiency and security for all types of data professionals

Observe industry trends and chart a path forward to keep pace with and lead the industry in the fast-moving hybrid cloud competitive landscape Google Anthos and AWS Outposts present a competitive challenge in this fast-growing market

Work with engineering team leaders on planning and executing the product vision through multiple release cycles

Participate in deep technical design of features by engaging with engineering technical leaders and architects

Here’s a little bit about our team. We are fully bought into “the new Microsoft” culture. We follow Satya’s leadership in having an open mindset. We embrace open source. We embrace diversity of people and thoughts. We have an open communication culture. We operate like a startup. We love what we do because we align our work to Microsoft’s mission statement to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline

7+ years professional experience in software engineering in the field of enterprise software and services development

1+ year of people management experience in the software engineering field

Preferred Qualifications:

High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment

Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner

Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes

Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems

Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers

Experience working in open-source communities

Embrace diversity of thoughts and backgrounds and lead others to do the same

Experience building software platforms, operations management software, or cloud services is a big plus