Principal Group Engineering Manager - Bengaluru, India - Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Microsoft background
    Full time
    Description

    Overview

    The Product

    The rapid growth of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power BI), is fueled by organizations across the globe investing in leveraging low-code/no-code development models to accelerate their digital transformation ambitions. Power Platform is a strategic new growth area for Microsoft, but more importantly, it is a disruptor technology that is giving "Citizen access" to broader set of users in an enterprise, to create next generation of business productivity software via radically simplified experience and without requiring extensive and costly training. It is transforming careers of 'citizen developers', making pro-developers far more productive and helping IT finally innovate at the pace that their businesses expect. To boost Power Platform to scale to millions of 'citizen developers', we are investing in Power Portals – an early emergent-stage product within Power Platform suite currently used by customers to enable collaboration with users both internal and external to their organizations. We are earlyin our journey to innovate on Power Pages product and shape it into a thriving standalone customer-facing business to drive incremental revenue and value for Power Platform.

    The Team

    We are passionate about building things that help other teams and solving problems that span across the org. We collaborate closely with many different teams and pursue creative solutions to help make them successful. We embrace modern tooling and approaches, and we're optimizing our engineering for building cloud first web applications with a faster cadence of releases to deliver innovation at an exciting pace. Our responsibilities span across multiple key areas, including building administration, governance and security experiences and features along with the engineering infrastructure to develop, build, and deploy complex business data rich applications. Our team works in an agile start-up like environment where we expect each team member to think out of the box to contribute and collaborate towards the mission of the team in a feature-crew setting.

    The Candidate

    As a team, we are very customer focused and driven by passion, creativity, teamwork, agility, accountability, and desire to learn every day. We are looking for a Group Engineering Manager to lead our team that creates the foundational frameworks and technologies that our Power Pages applications are built upon. The Group engineering manager will have multiple teams reporting to them that encompass Administration, Governance and Security for Power Pages Product offering.

    Qualifications

    Basic qualifications:

  • Minimum 15+ years of experience in software development of which 3+ years is managing and mentoring managers.
  • 10+ years of solid experience in leading distributed services and systems
  • 5+ years experience managing a team of managers.
  • Experience with AI/ML
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent or 10+ years of industry experience
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with data-driven decision making
  • Experience with Strategic thinking, Designing organizations and Thought leadership
  • Great written and oral presentation skills
  • Experience building applications on the Azure platform is a plus
  • Experience working with JavaScript monorepos is a plus
  • Experience with Security, observability and governance and building enterprise grade applications is a plus
  • If you are a Software Engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering features and are motivated by our mission, please contact us.

    Responsibilities

    Responsibilities

  • Leads and develops a team of 25+ engineers and engineering managers to deliver high business impact
  • Driving the strategy, vision, and execution for the team in collaboration with the collective team across engineering, product management, and design.
  • Lead team through design, architecture, and execution of core services at planet scale.
  • Provides technical insight on the following: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site management.
  • Lead the definition of requirements, key performance indicator (KPIs), priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
  • Coach team leaders and engineers within the team, grow the energetic, diverse, and high energy team, senior managers and ICs.
  • Actively shape and drive a flexible, diverse, and inclusive culture where everyone is enabled to be at their best.
  • Provide thought leadership and clarity to areas and scope of responsibility by exploring industry trends and signals offer innovative features that improve adoption and growth.
  • Working with product management and design to formulate specifications for features.
  • Innovate and make service deployment and maintenance an efficient well-oiled machine that provides excellent reliability with minimal manual engineer intervention.
  • Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect