Multidisciplinary Manager (Software Engineer) FDE
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Job Summary
In the Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering team you wont just build software; youll deliver real outcomes for some of the worlds most complex organizations.
We are a global team of world-class engineers who have been working in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model for more than a decade embedding directly within customer teams to solve their toughest challenges side-by-side and shipping production-ready solutions in days not months.
As a Multidisciplinary Manager you will lead a cross-discipline engineering team operating with a portfolio mindset to deliver high-impact customer outcomes while coaching talent modeling engineering excellence and strengthening Frontier Company Engineerings multidisciplinary operating model. Youll work alongside engineers data scientists product managers and domain experts owning delivery across the full lifecycle from problem definition through to deployed solutions.
Our work is powered by AI applying the mindset and tooling across the entire development lifecycle to move from idea to production in days while maintaining the highest standards of security quality and trust.
This role offers the opportunity to:
Lead a multidisciplinary crew to deliver scalable production-ready solutions
Coach talent and drive outcomes that directly influence business strategy
Collaborate with leading global organizations across industries
Apply the latest advancements in AI to deliver high-impact outcomes at scale
Microsofts 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
- 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 playercoach by taking on selected engagements modeling engineering fundamentals customerobsessed execution and inclusive crossdiscipline 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 AIforward 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or PythonOR equivalent experience.
- People management experience.
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)Bachelors Degree in Computer ScienceOR related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python OR Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or PythonOR equivalent experience. - People management experience.
- Customer-facing project-delivery experience professional services and/or consulting experience.
- 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%
Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is 93500.00 - 161800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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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.
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Manager