Job Description
Microsoft 365 applications are pivotal to Microsoft's mission of empowering every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more.
Our Dublin-based Release and Delivery Experience (RDX) team is dedicated to equipping decision-makers with actionable insights, effective controls, and predictable releases to enhance end-user productivity in a seamless and efficient manner.
We manage the distribution of all Office products across various platforms—Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android—through a single, streamlined pipeline.
We are a dynamic, collaborative team committed to elevating customer satisfaction.
We tackle intriguing challenges, pursue growth and learning, and enjoy the journey.
**Job Summary:**
Lead a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work, fostering collaboration with key stakeholders to accurately gather user requirements and drive team alignment.
**Responsibilities:**
- Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.
- Foster collaboration with key stakeholders, such as project managers and technical leads, to accurately gather user requirements and drive team alignment.
- Lead the charge in identifying dependencies and orchestrating the development of comprehensive design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
- Champion code excellence, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to boost performance and maintainability, ensuring maximum effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
- Strategically guide the team in managing multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items, ensuring seamless coordination with relevant stakeholders, including project managers.
- Serve as a technical beacon, acting as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) roles and vigilantly monitoring engineers across product lines, ensuring system/product/service integrity through on-call duties.
- Lead by example in product development, meticulously scaling to customer requirements, applying industry best practices for scalability and performance, and taking full accountability for any products that fall short of excellence.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- People management experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- People management experience.
- Software engineering experience including building large-scale web applications.
- Experience creating high-quality, customer-focused products.
- Demonstrated success in bringing people together across teams to successfully collaborate on innovative solutions.
- Demonstrated success in creating an inclusive and fun work environment where every employee engages effectively.
- Demonstrated success in growing people and teams through modeling, coaching, and demonstrating care.
- Experience or working knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js/React or another similar web stack.
- Proficient with high-quality software design, development experience with effective problem-solving, and debugging skills.
- Experience in working on big data pipelines such as Cosmos, Kusto, Azure Data Factory, etc.
**Benefits:**
- Industry-leading healthcare.
- Educational resources.
- Discounts on products and services.
- Savings and investments.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Generous time away.
- Giving programs.
- Opportunities to network and connect.