People Leadership:

• Attract and build a diverse, high-performing team with the capabilities needed to meet current and future business objectives. Balance developing existing employees with hiring new internal and external talent.
• Create an inclusive environment where every employee feels empowered and engaged. Provide ongoing feedback that supports performance improvement and fosters a positive, morale-boosting culture.
• Foster seamless cross-geo engineering collaboration to ensure uninterrupted 24x7 support and shared ownership.
• Establish and execute a readiness framework ensuring Azure Customer Engineers stay current with rapidly evolving technologies and drive systematic upskilling of the team’s technical depth and breadth, including the development of ACE Technical Subject Matter Expertise.
• Leverage resources to help employees develop skills and support their career interests.
• Remove barriers to agility to enable the team to shift priorities quickly without losing productivity.

Technical-Oriented

• Oversee increasingly complex customer issues and incidents, ensuring they are expedited and investigated using engineering-quality diagnostics.
• Recommend solutions to close skill gaps and meet readiness needs. Act as a thought leader and mentor by sharing knowledge and contributing to external content and readiness strategies for customers and partners.
• Track evolving industry and technology trends and identify opportunities to improve team capability and product quality.
• Collaborate effectively with partners to synthesize feedback from difficult and strategic customers, identifying and proactively resolving product gaps, misconfigurations, and KPI-impacting issues.
• Facilitate discussions with engineering and product stakeholders on product strategy and roadmaps, interpreting customer scenarios and driving resolution of issues and concerns. Provide recommendations for large-scale automation and new features or tools to improve product reliability and scale.
• Lead your team in sharing insights and practices with customers and partners across multiple forums and collaborate with teams to recommend improvements to troubleshooting guides, content, and performance metrics.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year(s) of customer-facing experience

Additional Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field, AND at least 12 years of experience in the technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering; OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing and leading highly technical, customer-facing teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies; Azure experience preferred.
• Fluent communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to engage confidently with CxO and BDM audiences
• Fluent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills required.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of modern engineering practices such as Agile, Lean, DevOps, etc. and modern cloud competencies (distributed systems, observability, compute/storage/network, containerization, identity, etc.)
• Passion and focus on delivering the right customer experience and value. Demonstrated ability to build a deep relationship with internal teams and customers.
• Proven ability to recruit and develop global teams that are diverse and inclusive
• Ability to debug complex distributed system issues and guide engineers toward root cause using logs/traces/diagnostics
• Ability to innovate and drive change for growth, value, and efficiency

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.

Customer Experience Engineering M5

• The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £93,500.00 - £161,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find Additional Benefits And Pay Information Here

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.