Do you want to influence product engineering teams to shape the next generation of data and analytics capabilities for Xbox? The Xbox Platform Data Intelligence team is looking for a highly motivated Senior Data Engineer with data platform experience. You will work closely with Product Managers in designing, implementing, and evolving innovative capabilities tailored to drive analytics and insights on engineering features. You will also partner with business stakeholders to understand data requirements to support business intelligence. Our capabilities influence data-driven decision making across Xbox Leadership, Finance, Business Planning, and Engineering teams.

Collaboration, diversity, & self-direction are valued here. Expect to be given room and support to grow personally and professionally.

Technically challenging projects, a healthy and high-caliber team, game-changing products for excited fans… don’t miss this rewarding opportunity!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Work within and across teams to solve complex technical challenges

• Develop engineering best-practices – continuously evaluate our processes and reporting to identify opportunities to improve, enhance, and automate existing and new capabilities

• Measure the success and usage patterns of the product / feature at various levels as well as key engineering metrics

• Provide thought leadership, creation, and execution on data platform capabilities

• Grow & foster an inclusive, creative, high-performance team culture

• Coach & mentor other team members

As well as embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling or data engineering work

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ year(s) experience in business analytics, data science, software development, or data engineering work

• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management / engineering experience and a BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline

• 5+ years of data analytics or data science experience

• Ability to use judgement and rating schemes to turn qualitative information into quantitative estimates

• Proficiency in scenario analytics, mining for insights

• Experience with any or similar technologies: Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), Azure Cosmos DB, Reporting applications (Power BI, Tableau, Grafana), Applied LLM to local data stores.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 19, 2024.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .