Within AI Platform, the Azure ML team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models.

Responsibilities

As the Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Driving strategy, vision, and execution for the team in collaboration with Azure Machine Learning - compromised of engineering, design, and program management leaders

• Lead team through design, architecture, and execution of core services at planet scale

• Lead the definition of requirements, key performance indicator (KPIs), priorities and planning of engineering deliverables

• Innovate and make service deployment and maintenance an efficient well-oiled machine that provides excellent reliability with minimal manual engineer intervention

• 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

We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-disciplined team.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns

• 12+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++)

• Relevant people management experience

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries

• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks

• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable

• Analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design

• Passion for building highly scalable, reliable services

• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.

• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions

• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices

• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges

• Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies

• A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations

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