Principal Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 04, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the business intelligence team builds and maintains Power BI which is the undisputed leader in BI tool in the industry today and serves as the bridge between data professionals & Office users. Power BI's core value proposition is to enable end users to get answers & insights from their data through data visualization. Within Power BI, this role as a Principal Engineering Manager will lead an established team of 8-10 software engineers spanning from new-to-career to experienced. As an agile and largely full-stack team, you'll have the opportunity to own scenarios end-to-end, working closely across product management, design & engineering. Designing UX experiences and the middle & backend services to power them. Building off Microsoft's leadership in artificial Intelligence, the focus is on applying LLM's and machine learning patterns to enable natural language interactions with all types of data. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
ResponsibilitiesAs a people manager, you'll be tasked with attracting, retaining and growing strong engineering talent. This includes developing tailored career plans for each individual's capabilities and aspirations & supporting them through active coaching and feedback.Guide efforts to ensure best practices are employed for scalability, security, privacy, accessibility and more. Ensure highly available and reliable feature/service offerings.Provide opportunities for experienced engineers to lead, but ultimately ensure code and architecture quality are maintained. Focus on extensible, maintainable & well factored code. Define, track and utilize quality metrics & telemetry to guide investments. While also factoring needs for engineering enablement & productivity.Partner closely with product and design partners to influence product strategy & achieve business goals. Including meeting and supporting customer directly, balancing feature design aspirations with technical capabilities, with a clear focus on an ROI based approach.Embody our culture and values | |