Principal Group Engineering Manager

About the role

We are seeking a Group Engineer Manager to lead Planner engineering within the TEX organization at Microsoft IDC. Planner is responsible for delivering AI-powered Task/project management, collaboration, and business continuity solutions used at global scale, spanning products such as Planner and Visio, and deep integrations across Teams Meetings and Channels, Loop, and compliance-driven services like Purview.

What you'll do

• Partner with product, design, and stakeholders to define and execute the engineering strategy and product vision for AI-powered project management and collaboration…
• Own the technical roadmap and system architecture for critical Experiences and services, ensuring scalability, resilience, cost efficiency
• Create and drive a culture of engineering excellence, establishing best practices for secure, high-quality, and maintainable code
• Establish planning and execution rhythms that enable predictable delivery, effective dependency management, and successful global launches
• Champion CI/CD automation, telemetry, and observability to enable zero-touch deployments and solid live-site health across services

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Java
• JavaScript
• Python
• C++
• C#
• C
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA or M.Sc or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• AWS
• GCP
• LLMs
• Azure
• Product strategy
• CI/CD