Support Engineer Manager- Data Technology
Overview
With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.
Helps secure funding for the headcount plan of record, including lobbying for incremental funding, when needed. Supports hiring activities to meet the headcount plan of record. Looks broadly across organization infrastructure to pilot or add a new capacity/technology.
Uses data-driven analysis and actionable insights to make decisions that drive operational/business outcomes.
Develops strategy and ensures that it aligns with the broader organizational strategy to improve return on investment (ROI). Demonstrates agility while selecting subordinate organizations to implement (including internal and delivery partner resources), and secures and allocates resources that improve customer and employee experience and financial return on investment (ROI).
Drives and influences others to facilitate the creation of the tools, proactive/diagnostic, and automation assets required to deliver world-class service to global customers. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of tooling and automation business landscape.
Oversees the development and implementation of the fiscal organization budget and quarterly re-forecasts (including allocation decisions, discretionary decisions, etc.). Where applicable, is accountable for return on investment (ROI) commitments for net investments.
responsibility descriptionPeople Leadership
Attracts, develops, motivates, and guides a team of managers toward successful business outcomes. Partners with Global Talent Acquisition stakeholders as well as leveraging professional networks to strategically attract top-tier, diverse Technical and non-Technical staff. Strategically identifies and utilizes diverse, high-growth, and talent-rich regions and creates overarching hiring strategy for the organization.
Inspires employee communities to build, strengthen and support globally inclusive connections.
Sets clear readiness and learning objectives for the organization. Directs and guides manager direct reports to assure the organization meets timing and completion expectations.
Actively drives Diversity and Inclusion and fosters global culture and mindset within the organization. Creates and promotes an inclusive environment that results in high performance and engagement.
Helps secure funding for the headcount plan of record, including lobbying for incremental funding, when needed. Supports hiring activities to meet the headcount plan of record. Looks broadly across organization infrastructure to pilot or add a new capacity/technology.
Uses data-driven analysis and actionable insights to make decisions that drive operational/business outcomes.
Develops strategy and ensures that it aligns with the broader organizational strategy to improve return on investment (ROI). Demonstrates agility while selecting subordinate organizations to implement (including internal and delivery partner resources), and secures and allocates resources that improve customer and employee experience and financial return on investment (ROI).
Drives and influences others to facilitate the creation of the tools, proactive/diagnostic, and automation assets required to deliver world-class service to global customers. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of tooling and automation business landscape.
Oversees the development and implementation of the fiscal organization budget and quarterly re-forecasts (including allocation decisions, discretionary decisions, etc.). Where applicable, is accountable for return on investment (ROI) commitments for net investments.
responsibility descriptionPeople Leadership
Attracts, develops, motivates, and guides a team of managers toward successful business outcomes. Partners with Global Talent Acquisition stakeholders as well as leveraging professional networks to strategically attract top-tier, diverse Technical and non-Technical staff. Strategically identifies and utilizes diverse, high-growth, and talent-rich regions and creates overarching hiring strategy for the organization.
Inspires employee communities to build, strengthen and support globally inclusive connections.
Sets clear readiness and learning objectives for the organization. Directs and guides manager direct reports to assure the organization meets timing and completion expectations.
Actively drives Diversity and Inclusion and fosters global culture and mindset within the organization. Creates and promotes an inclusive environment that results in high performance and engagement.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
· 7+ years operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience
o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 5+ years operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience.
· 3+ years experience of managing managers.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
· 5+ years managing managers.
· Microsoft Technology Certifications.
Other Requirements
- 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.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
• Effective customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to set and communicate team and individual goals and communicate strategy, tactics and behaviors required to achieve those goals.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to ambiguous and changing situations
• Ability to manage high pressure situations
Technical Support Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $121,800 - CAD $219,100 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 18, 2024.
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Responsibilities
People Management
· Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
· Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
· Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
· Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
Response and Resolution
· Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue and manages customer relationship. Monitors tickets of direct reports and delivery units to ensure resolution. Uses tools and strategy to monitor the performance of a team or delivery unit as a whole (e.g., backlog, structure, trends, volume, other business metrics). Serves as the first line of management escalation.
· Tracks resolution speed and removes roadblocks (e.g., skill gaps, handle difficult customers) preventing issues from being resolved. Acts as an escalation point in case resolution as necessary. Aligns resources of product group to support engineers.
· Identifies patterns (e.g., number of cases with similar issues), solutions, and collaborates with internal stakeholders to prioritize issues at the global level.
· Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve highly complex customer issues.
Readiness
· Analyzes group readiness strategy proactively to ensure the team has the correct readiness plan and executes readiness plan for technologies and feature releases. Provides feedback to global readiness team to ensure they have they appropriate readiness strategy and build material. Creates Microsoft role guides and ensures Technical Support Engineers have attended compliance trainings. Aids team in identifying gaps in technical documentation and collaborates with engineering and product teams to fill document gaps regarding new and existing technology.
Product/Process Improvement
· Communicates aggregated customer feedback to stakeholders to influence and drive product quality improvements.
· Identifies resources needed to resolve bugs. Drives visibility of product bugs to ensure timely engagement and/or action. Tracks pending cases due to bugs and influences product team to improve resolution and prevent customers from being impacted.
· Establishes requirements and collaborates with others across the organization to build monitoring and diagnostic tools that automate the discovery and resolution of issues.
· Creates and establishes operational frameworks and sets standards and measures for resolving issues. Enhances processes or workflows across the line of business.
· Ensures team member participation in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and develop efficient customer solutions by prioritizing issues, identifying resources, reviewing processes, or providing additional customer support.
Business Integration
· Establishes an engagement strategy with internal teams to promote a consistent plan. Creates methods of relationship building and collaboration to influence local and global strategy for lifetime customer loyalty.
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