Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world. 

The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join our team!

This is an exciting time to join our group Customer Zero and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. The goal of the Customer Zero Engineering is to build the next generation of our applications running on Dynamics 365, AI, Copilot, and several other Microsoft cloud services to deliver high value, complete, and Copilot-enabled application scenarios across all devices and form factors. We innovate quickly and collaborate closely with our partners and customers in an agile, high-energy environment. Leveraging the scalability and value from Azure & Power Platform, we ensure our solutions are robust and efficient. If the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse engineering team, on enabling end-to-end business scenarios using cutting-edge technologies and to solve challenging problems for large scale 24x7 business SaaS applications excite you, please come and talk to us!

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.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5 to 10 software developers and be a technical and operational leader. 

• Foster and develop talented Engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services. 

• Create robust career development plans to help grow team members. 

• Keep a razor focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focus. 

• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.   

• Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work. 

• Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables. 

• Collaborate closely with teams within Microsoft to leverage the best technology to advance and support the team’s mission. 

• Bring your curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion to deliver on the promise of technology in a difficult, competitive, and exciting vertical. 

• You will be responsible for the long-term health of your team, hiring and retaining top talent, creating a healthy environment where everyone can do their best work and provide hands on technical leadership as needed, with architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site. 

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, or related technical field. 

• 3+ years of managing and leading a team of software developers. 

• 10+ years of proven track record for building and shipping production software 

Preferred /Additional Qualifications (Optiona l , at HM disc retion)

• Master’s+ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field is a plus. 

• Strong customer empathy and willingness to learn.  

• Commitment to collaboration, teamwork, and ability to deliver via influence. 

• Experience delivering large cross group projects in collaboration with multiple partner teams. 

• Demonstrated ability and experience in the entire product development lifecycle: design, implementation, deployment, and live site support. 

• Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems. 

• Strong collaborator who can clearly explain work, listen to peers and customers, embodies growth mindset, and work effectively cross group and within the team. 

• Background on services and cloud computing a plus. 

• Experience on Microsoft Power Platform is a plus. 

• Prior experience building business-centric web applications and latest web development technologies. 

• Strong problem solving, design, implementation, and communication skills. 

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