The Employee Experience -Digital Workspace team is looking for an experienced Software Engineer 2 to drive key aspects of the cross-Microsoft enterprise services transformation. The ideal candidate will play a significant role working with other senior technical engineering PMs, Software Engineers, and Architects across Microsoft to identify opportunities, coordinate solutions (adjust priorities, define new features, co-design/develop, etc.), and accelerate delivery of key technology services and capabilities to improve and ensure the best end-to-end customer and employee experiences.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with top engineers & data architects across Microsoft to drive effective technical solutions.
• Coordinate with Microsoft Digital and PG leadership in project and strategy reviews
• Driving the company’s strategy and technical/data architecture for key technologies to achieve cross-company goals and alignment
• Architect, design, develop, and deliver high quality software that powers ever increasing demands of availability, reliability, security and performance of IT core tools.
• Stay on top of industry trends, standards from security and scalability perspective to Lead and influence design decisions to build services right ground up.
• Driving code and design reviews and take them closure

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience and skills:

• Should have a Computer Science or related degree; BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
• Strong understanding of fundamentals of Computer Science; Data Engineering, Databases – SQL Server and/or any Competitor DBMS System
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building - Data Engineering frameworks, Data Warehouse, Data Pipeline, Data Lake, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
• Proficient hands-on experience in building applications using Python, SQL/PLSQL, JSON, XML
• 5+ years software development experience in full product cycle: design, development, release and maintenance.
• Familiarity with Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and the .NET Framework) and/or competitive offerings (e.g. J2EE, WebLogic or WebSphere).

            Experience should entail some or all the below:

• 3+ years of experience delivering scalable and resilient services at large enterprise scale.
• Understanding on basic Machine Learning Techniques – Regression, Classification, Clustering, Decision Tress, Time Series Analysis (to name a few)
• 4+ years of experience in data platforms including large-scale analytics on relational, structured and unstructured data
  

Preferred, not required:

• Strong Azure Dev Ops (formerly Visual Studio Team Services).
• Experience with Agile project management techniques.
• Passion for using data and analytics to drive business insights & value.
• Understanding of Statistical Modeling & Data Distribution
• Excellent interpersonal, team collaboration and group dynamic skills
• Able to execute tasks with minimal supervision
• Strong written & verbal communication and presentation skills

Describe the ideal candidate (optional)

Successful candidate must have deep technical aptitude, great communication and cross-group skills, strong customer focus, a can-do and ready-to-learn attitude and the ability to jump in and get the job done in a fast-paced and stimulating environment. Will have experience working in a high-performing team environment, experience running and designing enterprise scale services and platforms, technical depth in cloud platforms, agile development practices, and experience in designing & tuning telemetry.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.