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Principal Data Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewImagine being at the forefront of a revolution powered by Data and Artificial Intelligence, where your leadership directly shapes how Microsoft engages with billions of customers worldwide. As Principal Data Engineering Manager in the Global Marketing Data Engineering team, you'll guide a talented group of engineers to build and scale cutting-edge data platforms-enabling personalized customer journeys, driving media innovation, and powering high-impact campaigns that redefine customer engagement. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to architect and deliver data products that integrate, enrich, and unlock deep insights across countless scenarios. You'll work hands-on with advanced technologies like Microsoft Fabric and Purview, and collaborate closely with business, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to translate complex requirements into actionable solutions. If you're passionate about leading high-impact teams, driving technical strategy, and making a world-changing impact through data, this is your opportunity to unleash your potential and help shape the future of marketing at Microsoft. 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.
ResponsibilitiesTeam Leadership & Development Lead, coach, and empower a team of data engineers to deliver high-impact data solutions.Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and customer focus. Model Microsoft values and drive team growth through mentorship and career development. Technical Strategy & Execution Define, document and drive development of connected marketing data model across the customer lifecycle identifying data gaps in the current state and producing strategy and roadmap to address the gaps. Identify patterns of data needs to help translate to data product capabilities and solutions. Own the end-to-end delivery of data products and models that enable critical business insights and campaign performance measurement. Provide technical leadership by identifying dependencies across teams and translating product vision and strategy into tangible impact. Define and drive technical requirements, architecture, and roadmaps for scalable data solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data stack, and Lakehouse architectures. Oversee data acquisition, semantic model development, and deployment pipelines. Stakeholder Management Build partnerships with analytics, marketing, and engineering stakeholders to understand business needs and evaluate solution options. Influence and negotiate cross-organizational dependencies impacting roadmaps and delivery. Drive the federated marketing data strategy across multiple source data engineering teams. Operational Excellence Ensure data quality, reliability, and security across all data flows and products. Implement monitoring, issue responsiveness, and privacy-compliant data processing practices in collaboration with Data Platform and Product Management teams. Drive Agile/Scrum execution, backlog management, and vendor team coordination. Innovation & Continuous Improvement Define and establish engineering excellence frameworks, standards, and best practices, driving adoption across Data Engineering. Contribute to enhancing architecture, design principles, and frameworks through feedback and domain-specific scenarios. Champion the adoption of innovative technologies and continuous improvement across the data engineering organization. OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |