Software Engineer II

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• Define business requirements with input from key stakeholders
• Driving engineering initiatives across engineering teams, status reporting and surfacing risks
• Collaborating with different teams to surface health and hygiene of engineering systems through monthly services reviews
• Engineering Systems Ops Support: This includes incident management, build pipeline monitoring and maintenance for engineering systems. Responsible for investigating and troubleshooting infrastructure-related build failures, engaging with partner teams for other failures, and assisting internal teams to integrate with pipeline components.
• Support Geo Expansion: This involves supporting geo expansion work as part of the services owned by team.
• Bringing clarity to the execution roadmap, risks and status of various engineering initiatives through engineering newsletters and other forums
• Automating program management through Azure DevOps, GitHub and Power BI
• Being plugged into various security and services infrastructure initiatives
• Partnering with solution engineers to validate that designs meet or exceed business needs
• Build project timelines, estimates of level of effort, manage milestones, and course correct projects to maintain schedules
• Identify and mitigate project execution risks
• Define acceptance criteria and partner with engineering to ensure that services align with requirements
• Partner with business teams to ensure that appropriate change management plans exist for the release of larger features
• Orchestrate planning, communications, testing, and stakeholder management across multiple teams
• Verify that solutions implemented capture the benefits identified during planning
• Provide ICM support and serve as an escalation point during outages or investigations
• Drive constant improvement in the administration and documentation of tools
• Help inform priorities of features based on knowledge of business and key stakeholders
• Assist in the implementation of new technology as it becomes available
• Identify opportunities for improvement in existing process and drive ideas to completion
• Manage the permission structure for internal tools
• Manage deployment of technology upgrades to existing systems. Qualifications (Text Only)
• Bachelor and/or Graduate degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• Experience: 3 years of professional development.
• Technical Stack: C , C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies.
• Focus Areas: Strong analytical skills, customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Background in computer engineering, preferably cloud services or DevOps and AI
• Prior experience with using Azure DevOps and GitHub for project tracking, or strong technical acumen to quickly learn new technologies Preferred Qualifications:
• You should self-identify as a technical software engineer with a passion for cloud technologies and AI
• Previous experience as a Software Developer Engineer
• Track record of working closely with agile and diverse engineering teams
• Comfort with command line, PowerShell and OSS software
• Understanding of cloud, AI and other computing technologies, including business drivers and emerging trends across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
• Experience working in geographically dispersed teams
• Self-starter who likes tackling new challenges and working independently
• Ability to build relationships with senior technical and business leaders
• Strong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English Other Requirements Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: - This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 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. 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. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #BICJOBS #BACJOBS

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