Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

The Microsoft Viva Suite was launched two years ago to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their workplace. Employee engagement is in flux during times of economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, and feel supported in their careers. The broader Viva product family is dedicated to examining the employee journey and delivering software and services to make it better.

Viva Horizontals is a shared platform and core services team under Viva Employee Experience Organization (EXP) and are a catalyst for suite growth. The team creates foundational services in core suite-wide areas like access management, innovates on suite-level platforms like Viva Skills, Viva HR Co-pilot and are responsible for pioneering Viva’s presence on M365 Copilot. Viva Horizontals work on pivotal platform services and experiences that have a Viva-wide influence and value.

The Viva Horizontals team is looking to hire a Principal Engineering Manager to lead a team that will be responsible for delivering stellar customer experiences on Viva Skills and Viva AI/Copilot. We run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founder-ism.” Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. We are a truly distributed team and have mechanisms in place to make individuals successful irrespective of their location and time zone differences. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and motivated. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a keen sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth. 

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Hire, build and manage a team of engineers responsible for delivering large scale, impactful features in Viva Skills and Viva Copilot.

• Lead the definition of requirements, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables. 

• Apply strong engineering principles for defining robust/maintainable architectures and operational excellence. Help establish and drive the adoption of good coding standards and patterns. 

• Collaborate broadly across multiple disciplines from PM, Design and People Scientists to create customer delighting AI experiences in Viva. 

• Develop collaborative partnerships across stakeholders to advance the team’s mission and help the team to plan and execute technical deliverables.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years experience building software and complex services.

• Strong experience in ReactJS, React Native, Java script and modern frontend technologies for building rich and performant UX

• Strong experience working with distributed systems/Microservices architectures

• 3+ years experience as an Engineering people leader

• Proven track record of forming, mentoring, and growing strong engineering teams

• Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues

*Preferred Qualifications *

• A passion for software engineering building resilient, operationally efficient platforms, and experiences

• Experience working across disciplines and teams.

• A passion for leading diverse, inclusive engineering organization. 

• Significant developer experience that builds empathy and understanding of the developer community.  

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) .