Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is a global technology company whose Frontier Company Engineering team delivers production-ready software solutions for complex organizations through a Forward Deployed Engineering model. The Multidisciplinary Manager will lead cross-discipline engineering teams, manage portfolios of customer engagements, coach talent, and guide the delivery of AI-powered solutions from problem definition through deployment.
Responsibilities
- Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, owning a portfolio of work to maximize customer and Microsoft value through strong portfolio and delivery leadership
- Provide clear coaching, career development, and performance support for engineers across software engineering, technical program management, and data science, fostering growth in a multidisciplinary environment
- Serve as a player‑coach by taking on selected engagements, modeling engineering fundamentals, customer‑obsessed execution, and inclusive, cross‑discipline collaboration
- Partner with leadership and discipline managers to ensure healthy team rhythms and strong operational excellence across engagements
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning by elevating engineering practices, sharing reusable patterns and accelerators, and strengthening our multidisciplinary operating model
- Champion AI‑forward hypervelocity engineering by guiding teams to apply responsible AI practices, leverage accelerators and reusable patterns, and integrate emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions and delivery
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
- 6+ years people management experience
- 3+ years customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and use of cloud AI platforms
- Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%
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