Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure CXP team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work.

Responsibilities

People Manager

Lead a diverse team of Senior and Principal Engineers based out of multiple countries in Asia

Practice Model, Coach and Care and abide by our principles of Accountability, Integrity and Respect while providing ongoing feedback that helps your direct reports improve their performance, develop skills and support their career aspirations

Exhibit curiosity towards different cultures the teams come from, ensure inclusion of thoughts & ideas, and build a cohesive team that contributes to each other’s success, and bring their authentic self

Provide technical guidance, help unblock roadblocks by bringing in global expertise within the organization & beyond when needed

Contribute to Asia Data & AI Strategy and Semester plans – identifying focus areas, patterns, stakeholder alignments, setting goals etc.

Ensure Team is working on high quality Data, AI & Analytics engagements in their areas, by partnering with Program managers (PM) & their leads

Contribute to execution excellence for Asia based Engineers, ensuring a healthy balance between customer engagements, upskilling and internal initiatives

Qualifications

The Skills listed below can help in being successful in this role, we don’t expect you to have all of them and we seek individuals who are excited about this role and love to learn what’s required.  

Technical experience in building and designing Data, Analytics or AI systems on at least one public cloud Azure, AWS, GCP

5+ years of people management experience, managing Engineers. Additionally, leading teams which are functionally & geographically diverse will be advantageous

Customer-facing experience in leading projects, consulting or delivery, in leading technical conversations and leveraging expertise from other teams

Working with enterprise customers on cloud specific data solutions, systems development and deployments

Experience working across stakeholders & leadership, with an ability to educate and influence with high levels of ambiguity and tight deadlines

Bachelor’s or relevant degree in Computer Science background, with coding, systems design, information systems management and other relevant subjects

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .