This Job is eligible for the following work arrangements :Flex Time
Job Description :
Introduction to group/job Are you looking for work in the most interesting business in Microsoft? Do you want to help deliver quality Line of Business applications on the latest Microsoft technologies to help the MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN BPU (Business Process Unit), which manages the businesses of manufacturing and supply chain (MSC) for XBOX, KINECT, WINDOWS PHONE Mobility and SURFACE continue on its mission to produce the world’s best entertainment systems? And are you a self-driven Performance Lead who has a passion for delivering quality and are looking for a place where your abundance of ideas will be welcomed and supported? You may just have found your dream job. MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN BPU is a global Engineering team that delivers Line of Business applications to support our the rapid growth of our business. Currently there are 200+ applications in our portfolio and these include revenue systems, forecasting and planning, returns & reburbishment, sales, business intelligence and much more based on core Microsoft platforms including Azure, SQL, Biztalk, MOSS, MS Dynamics AX and more. The application portfolio is largely based on Supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model comprising of 5 distinct management processes namely - Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return. Application portfolio also includes third party products like SAP R/3, APO etc. We engineer applications from the ground up specific to the requirements of the business, and we need people who are passionate about delivering a high quality bar into production.
You will fit right in if…
You thrive in an ambiguous start up like environment
Responsibilities between Business Architect/SolutionArchitect/Dev/Test/PM/SM and Support will blur. Everyone stretches beyond their current role to ensure the team succeeds as a whole
You are passionate about delivering great business capabilities and experiences. Everyone in the team is expected to constantly push the envelope to create the experience the best it can be
Passion for Microsoft physical supply chain as well as software quality, delivering high scale services and achieving engineering excellence are some of your core values
You are proactive, self-motivated, driven and results oriented
Roles/Responsibilities The MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN BPU team is seeking a highly motivated Sr. SDE to lead the BizTalk platform development and test activities that support MSC business. As a Sr.SDE, you will be responsible for deeply understanding our clients’ needs, both end-user as well as developers, translating those needs into detailed plans and designs for software engineer consumption, and gaining broad consensus on those plans and designs with a wide variety of constituents. Key deliverables includes technical specifications development, designing/developing solutions/programs, designing/validating arechitectureal POC’s, developing/implementing monitoring frameworks/ tools and detailed strategy and planning aspects for the teams to consume and perform necessary actions. Successful candidates will have demonstrated expertise and knowledge in MS technologies like .NET, Biz Talk and deeper SQL server expertise and an aptitude for driving technical requirements and finally - and most importantly - a deep interest in maintaining high quality customer Focus. The candidate will have working knowledge of .Net, ASP, BizTalk, SharePoint Technologies, SQL, and services oriented architecture technologies, along with the ability to integrate with 3rd party off-the-shelf and custom in-house solutions. Experience in implementing business solutions in the Supply Chain domain would be an added advantage. The candidate will need to communicate at many organizational levels, balance daily support needs with long-term strategy, and successfully converting project plans into software reality. It is desired that the candidate have a demonstrated ability to work successfully in a matrixed organization with multiple customers/owners, along with both direct employees and dotted-line reporting talent.
Roles and Responsibilities
Partner and influence stakeholders across business and engineering teams, embracing cross-boundary collaboration and driving win-win relationships and results
Develop design and technology prototypes to prove out concepts, as required
Bring innovative approaches to the project functional areas that continuously improve our ability to deliver faster, better, and cheaper solution
Bring efficiencies to the Envisioning and Design phases of complex projects, and gain business and Solutions Delivery trust as a technical authority.
Demonstrate understanding of business requirements analysis and the ability to utilize technical skills/experience to improve business processes, system feature/functions, usability and performance
Follow industry best practices for Agile development in a team environment
Research and keep current on IT trends, technologies and system solutions
Assist in scoping and planning new projects - identifying degree of fit of with MS technologies and estimating overall timeline/cost for an implementation.
Provide guidance to the team in troubleshooting issues
Promote proactive and cooperative relationships within the work group by working collaboratively with business stakeholders, vendors, support, development and test teams
Work closely with solution management, engineering and architecture teams to deliver high quality services
Manage a team of highly motivated developers
Assist project members with infrastructure and application performance monitoring and analysis
Work tightly with application development, architecture, infrastructure and engineering groups for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
Excellent verbal communications and negotiation skills. Excellent cross group collaboration skills with proven leadership experience of managing multiple virtual/global teams
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
8+ years of experience in system implementation, project management, process analysis, and enterprise level services/systems
Extensive knowledge in Telemetry using Bigdata, Hadoop, Scala, .Net C#, SSIS, Azure
Extensive knowledge in XML, XSLT, XSD.
3+ years of experience in Microsoft technologies like .NET, WCF, WF, Windows Azure etc.
Proven experience working on the Microsoft technology stack in web/windows applications with a combination of any of the technologies like ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, WF, BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL Server
Solid understanding of BizTalk best practices and design patterns.
Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
Proven experience driving big and complex projects to successful completion
Familiar with Lean Scrum Ban or similar agile development/implementation methodologies, and cross-functional engineering practices/excellence. Expertise and knowledge in Agile engineering practices (Continuous Integration, TDD)
Strong verbal communications and cross-group collaboration skills. Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
Strong creative thinking and problem solving skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity without stalling progress
Excellent understanding of Engineering Excellence processes and requirements
Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, web services, cloud, distributed and standalone applications and messaging layers.
Knowledge of SAP or experience in deploying solutions that integrate in an SAP environment is an added advantage
ITIND
Information technology (IT) & operations