Data Engineering

Job Description

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft?s global workforce sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about the future of work, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation? If so, Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is an excellent place for you to grow your career.
Microsoft Digital (MSD)?s mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world. Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft?s Data Platform & Growth (DPG) organization and Experiences & Devices (E+D) division. Microsoft Digital (MSD), is the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft?s employee experience, human resources, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft?s internal… network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. You will leverage the latest technologies and focus on empowering Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work.
Microsoft?s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we?re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.
Job Purpose
The HR Data Insights team is a part of the Microsoft Digital engineering division, and the key focus of the team is to enable decision agility through connected, trusted, and secure data and insights.
 
The HR Data & Insights team has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer to work in an employee-centric data engineering team at Microsoft. We are looking for a customer-obsessed individual, with a growth mindset, compassion for employee experience, and an experimental approach to join our team.
 
The Data & Insights team is a geo-distributed team building data products and key insights on people data to drive business decisions. As a Data Engineer in the team, you will be responsible for managing the data real estate, architecting, and developing the next-gen data platform as well as conducting deep data analysis.
Responsibilities
? Builds scalable data models and data pipelines to extract, load and transform data, ensures secure data storage, with focus on data quality and compliance.
? Establishes and builds processes and structures to channel data from multiple inputs, route appropriately, and store using any combination of distributed (cloud) structures, local databases, and other applicable storage forms as required.
? Designs, builds, and oversee the deployment and operation solutions, and software to capture, manage, store, and utilize structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources.
? Creates and establishes design standards and assurance processes for software, systems, and applications development to ensure compatibility and operability of data connections, flows, and storage requirements.
? Maintains customer privacy by enforcing data governance structures, defining data accessibility, using data in compliance with applicable laws and policies.
? Partners with teams across Microsoft & within HR/CELA to drive positive employee experience.
? Communicates key outcomes with stakeholders and leadership. 
Qualifications
? Bachelor’s/master?s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Data science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
? 4+ years industry experience in a deep technical role of which at least 3 years building products in Business Intelligence & Analytics, Cloud services etc.
? Expert knowledge in SQL with ability to write complex SQL queries with different join techniques. Well versed with Data Modeling for Analytical use cases.
? Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and experience on Azure Data tech stack ? Azure Data Bricks / Synapse would be a plus.
? Excellent data visualization skills to be able to present insights that drive business impact. 
? Knowledge of Machine Learning/Predictive modeling a significant plus 
? Passionate towards innovation and demonstrates strong growth mindset to constantly learn and grow.
? Strong team player with excellent communication & collaboration skills. 
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