Microsoft Azure SQL DB is a leader in managed relational database business, and we are growing rapidly. We are operating hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide with millions of databases in over 50 regions. In the past few years Azure SQL DB brought revolutionary capabilities to the market that span hyperscale, serverless compute, insights, auditing, performance optimization, encryption, accidental and disaster recovery, regional fault tolerance as well as a spectrum of features that deeper integrate with Azure platform capabilities, providing truly end-to-end solutions. Our product pushes the limits of technology to exceed requirements of the most demanding data applications in the industry. Large enterprises and SaaS providers are migrating to Microsoft Azure bringing large volume of data and manageability requirements.  Lately, one of our top priority investments for the business is winning the hearts of minds of modern developers with a SaaS solution that is deeply integrated with developer frameworks, patterns and pipelines, simple to adopt and delightful to use.

As our platform keeps being an industry leader in innovation and customer value, the Sql Portal and Experiences team is responsible for introducing and delivering the user interaction experience concepts, patterns and capabilities that will make the platform shine in our competitive landscape. This position is for a technical, hands-on engineering leader and entry level people manager to build and lead a small but effective team of engineers who are proud to work on what we call “the face of the service” with the mission to build a world class user interaction experience for developers, database administrators, solution architects, that is simple, scalable, reliable, intuitive and consistent. As a hands-on technical leader for this team, you will collaborate closely with many other engineering and PM counterparts in the SQL organization to design and deliver the best user experience, you will set technical and organizational direction, establish good practices and set clear, measurable goals. As a people manager, you will drive a team culture of inclusiveness, collaboration and mutual support, you will lead by example and you will coach the team members to grow in their career.

If you consider yourself a strong engineering leader looking to grow into people and if you are interested in shaping how users see, learn about and interact with a world class service, this is the place where you can take your career to the next level while following your passion.

Candidate should have:

• Passion for building UX components (client/API), distributed systems, cloud technology
• Great analytical skills and learning agility
• Capacity to drill deep through software layers
• Rigor to drive the change and pursue results across teams and disciplines
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results in fast-paced environment
• Team spirit and drive to make improvements that accrue to the greater good

Responsibilities

• Release improvements on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability, accessibility, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate closely with engineers from partner teams develop a deep understanding of the product functionality end-to-end and across the stack.
• Establish standards and integrate them with the team
• Operate the service through telemetry, monitoring and analytics
• Partner with customer support channels to provide the best experience
• Build and maintain partnership between our team and teams operating services across Data Services and Azure ecosystem
• Partner with Program Management, UX designers, architects and leaders to define/understand requirements, scope improvements and validate solutions
• Exhibit thought leadership by taking initiative to bring improvements to our product, engineering systems and team culture
• Establish strong committer ownership by implementing solid, extensible patterns and upholding high standards.
• Foster a team culture of mutual respect, support and collaboration

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or 5+ years of leading industry engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• 5+ years of programming experience in JavaScript OR TypeScript OR Java OR C# OR C/C++ OR object-oriented programming
• 2+ years of programming experience in Client Web or user interface related technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

 Experience using React and other modern web client development practices, frameworks and tools. 

• Ability to lead and communicate effectively across teams and disciplines.
• Acumen for mentoring and coaching.
• Experience using agile methodologies.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment. 
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
• Experience with SQL or other database systems.

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