Senior Director, Quality Engineering Leader

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

We are looking for a Seniror Director, Quality Engineering Leader, to join the team.

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.

Responsibilities

• Direct a high-performing team of Quality Engineers
• Implement a comprehensive supplier quality management strategy.
• Collaborate with leaders to drive Harward Quality across platforms
• Provide technical leadership in resolving complex issues with a sense of urgency.
• Establish and drive Critical-to-Quality performance metrics to enhance product quality.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 11+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• 10+ years of experience in leading a large-scale team or taskforce to resolve technical problems and solutions. 

• Proficient communication and project management skills. 

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.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
  • OR related field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
  • OR related field AND 13+ years technical engineering experi