Principal Software Engineering Manager London, England
Microsoft
Full Time
London, England
54009 - 96216 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Do you thrive when coaching technical teams and do you have a passion for working closely with customers to solve their biggest challenges? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day?
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, your engineering leadership experience will position you effectively to manage a number of teams who design and deliver solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. You’ll be working with managers and developers on your team to apply their skills, creativity, and aspirations to the benefit of the customers and to advance their careers.
Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves.
Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world.
Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) is part of Microsoft Industry Solutions, a global organization of elite engineers, industry experts, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts who work together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology - to life for the world’s most influential customers.
ISE is a customer co-innovation and co-engineering team who develop solutions side-by-side with our customers through collaborative innovation to solve their challenges. This work involves the development of broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform
Watch this video to learn more about who we are and what we do: https://aka.ms/csevideo.
Responsibilities
This is a hands-on management and customer facing leadership role where your focus on coaching and continuous improvement in capability will be fundamental to you and your team’s success.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Leading and mentoring 3-4 software engineering leads and their development teams.
- Providing thoughtful feedback, nurturing an inclusive environment, championing engineering fundamentals, and providing mentorship for team members to grow
- Modelling Microsoft’s core values of respect, integrity, and accountability to leads and engineers across your team.
- Coaching and guiding your leads to ensure that we successfully deliver projects with our customers. Ensure great architectural decisions and engineering practices.
- Hands-on technical leadership with your team and our customers, the broader ISE organisation, Microsoft product teams, and the open-source community.
- Partnering with technical program management and other teams to successfully nurture, plan, prioritise and deliver engagements that build trust and expand Azure expertise with our customers.
- Working with other managers across our team to continuously improve our engineering process and our technical capabilities.
- Continuously building your technical knowledge and improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.
Find out more about our culture and values
Qualifications
- Extensive experience shipping or running production systems and/or software, including complex production systems that run on public cloud
- A history of having managed software engineering teams or technical lead experience.
- Clear design and coding skills with a bias for architecture at scale, grounded in engineering fundamentals
- Regular interaction with customers, both internal and external, and at all levels within an organisation
- Understanding of cloud computing and experience working with cloud architecture. Microsoft Azure expertise preferred but AWS, or similar cloud computing platforms will be considered.
- Experience and skills with Azure Data and AI services or equivalent
- Prior experience in Government and Defence or related industries (Preferable).
- This role requires you to be eligible for, and willing to be, UK Security Vetted to level 2 (Security Check (SC))
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Redmond, United States
Satya Nadella
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1975
