Principal Engineer Manager

Cloud migration is one of the most critical steps in modernizing enterprise Information Technology (IT), and Azure Migrate is at the forefront of enabling this transformation. Our team is innovating with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reimagine how migrations are planned, executed, and optimized—bringing intelligence, adaptability, and precision to every customer journey. You'll be part of a dynamic engineering team that blends deep platform expertise with cutting-edge AI capabilities to simplify complex migration scenarios and deliver seamless cloud adoption experiences.

As a Principal Engineer Manager in Azure Migrate, you will build intelligent systems that guide customers through their migration journey with clarity and confidence. You'll work on scalable services, data-driven insights, and AI-powered experiences that anticipate user needs and streamline decision-making. Azure Migrate plays a pivotal role in Azure's growth strategy—enabling customers to move critical workloads to the cloud and unlocking long-term platform adoption. Your contributions will directly impact customer success, cloud consumption, and the evolution of Microsoft's intelligent infrastructure. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, deepen your understanding of cloud infrastructure and intelligent systems, and contribute to one of Microsoft's most strategic cloud offerings.

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.

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience. 

Other Qualifications: 

• 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. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 
  • OR Python 
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 4+ years people management experience. 

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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