The Senior Data Engineer role at Microsoft Business Operations involves designing, building, and operating software that supports product management across the company. The position focuses on leveraging AI tools and practices to enhance engineering quality and efficiency. You will work closely with product managers and engineers to ensure the delivery of reliable and scalable services. This role emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to operational excellence.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering OR Bachelor's Degree in the same fields AND 4+ years experience OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience with data governance, data compliance and/or data security.
• 4+ years of hands-on software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages such as C#, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production data pipelines and platforms at scale.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into production systems, including familiarity with Responsible AI principles.

• Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle for key components and services.
• Use AI tools across the full SDLC in a disciplined way.
• Lead design discussions for your project area and evaluate tradeoffs.
• Partner with PM and engineering to define data requirements.
• Write extensible, secure, and performant code for pipelines and transformations.
• Own the test strategy for your area, including data contract tests and schema validation.
• Identify cross-team data dependencies and manage upstream and downstream impacts.
• Drive your workgroup's project and release plans.
• Design and run experiments to guide ship decisions for data and models.
• Drive deployment automation toward zero-touch and strengthen CI/CD for data systems.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.