Microsoft Digital (MSDigital) builds and manages critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances for Microsoft and its customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. MSDigital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. Within MSDigital, Employee Experiences for Human Resources (EE HR) is a highly motivated team focused on transforming into a real-time enterprise as we Connect the Company, Delight Customers, and Inspire the Industry

Responsibilities

As a Product Owner for the Human Resources Data and Insights team you will have impact by:

• Understanding various Microsoft HR functions and how we can optimize operations through quality & timely insights built on a high speed, high scale tech stack.
• Partnering closely with other Engineering teams in the ecosystem to light up actionable insights in experiences they support.
• Arriving at business outcomes and roadmap definition, defining system roadmap required to meet core business outcomes, and creating high quality scenarios, features and user stories to deliver on those outcomes.
• Providing thought leadership on migrating legacy systems to the HR data lake.
• Providing thought leadership on how scenarios and features will be implemented across multiple systems and organizations.
• Developing and sustaining strong working relationships with business, application program managers, software engineers, services engineers, vendors and Engineering peers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of IT/Product Engineering experience as product owner (or related) with strong understanding of the Agile framework.
• Experience working on a Data Platform as a Product Manager, Business Analyst or Data Engineer.
• Knowledge of analytics, data mining, data visualization, modelling and machine learning.
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.

Preferred, not required:

• Passionate problem solver who continuously strives to make things better.
• Enjoys wearing multiple hats and digging in to make things happen. Equally comfortable articulating the big picture and refining the small details.
• Customer and data obsessed, always learning, and refining your features to deliver maximum business impact.
• Loves pushing for clarity in communication and can explain large, complex systems, in simple-straightforward language. Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).
• Experience working in a global delivery model.
• Strong candidates should have a Computer Science or related degree, direct involvement designing and delivering enterprise-class solutions, as well as familiarity with Microsoft technologies, excellent communication skills, strong organizational skills, experience operating in an agile methodology, and in-depth skills in requirements identification and clarification. Candidates should have previous experience with multiple product release cycles, an understanding of transaction processing systems, reporting and analytics is desired. A good understanding of human resource business domain is a plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

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