Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

PRODUCT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a rapidly growing business at Microsoft and is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications. CRM consists of a model driven platform that revolutionizes how business applications are designed and delivered.   This platform drives business applications for domains such as Sales, Marketing and Customer Service - whilst also enabling customization by business users - or completely new solutions to be built by business users, developers, and ISV's.

This is an exciting time to join Dynamics where we are innovating and rethinking CRM - focusing on what capabilities next generation business productivity software needs to provide in a mobile first, cloud first world.   We aim to build the best-in-class cloud application experience on Azure and are looking for experienced engineers to help us design the next version of our online service and lead Microsoft’s charge against SalesForce.com.   This is a great opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft.

TEAM

The team consists of highly motivated, innovative, customer focused engineers and engineering leaders. We’re optimizing our engineering for the cloud first with a faster cadence of releases to deliver innovation at an exciting pace. Our team works in an agile start-up like environment where we expect each team member to think out of the box to contribute and collaborate towards the mission of the team in a feature-crew setting. As part of this team you would get exciting opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies across a variety of platforms to build the next generation application experiences for Dynamics CRM and revolutionize the way businesses operate.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a passionate and motivated principal level developer to be a technical leader in design and implementation for the next generation cloud platform capabilities in Dynamics CRM leveraging Office365 and Azure.   These capabilities must not only provide the foundation for cutting-edge user experiences and complex business process definitions, they must also scale out to support active usage around the world by thousands of customers 24x7.   You will be expected to work closely with the development leadership team and our architects to design, implement, and ship features, work through competing priorities, and solve complex technical challenges to meet business goals and maintain live site availability.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE - YOU

The ideal candidate is a strong Software Development Engineer with a proven track record of delivering products:

- 10+ years of experience in software development

- Deep knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, SQL, HTML5, and JavaScript

- Experience designing and deploying distributed systems leveraging Azure services

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work in a dynamic and agile environment

- Ability to provide technical leadership at the senior level

- Ability to think and execute creatively and independently

- Able to collaborate well within the team and across product groups to deliver end to end experiences

- Passionate, self-motivated and customer focused

- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal IT Software Development Engineer

MSIT Dynamics SR Principle Solution Architect

Are you interested in shaping the future vision of how we implement Dynamics across various businesses scenarios and evolve the platform strategy for Microsoft?   Is it your passion to glue various technologies together across the Microsoft stack and tell the market ready story of how we provide private and public cloud solutions?   This career is for you.  

We are looking for a strong Senior Principal Solution Architect that can work with various business stakeholders, product teams, and engineers to shape the solutions we deliver.   We are paving the way to move Enterprise Applications to the Cloud.  

The ideal candidate will have a deep passion for engineering excellence, has the ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply to real world scenarios, works well in a fast paced and agile environment, and can traverse various client types (business and technical) to stitch together solutions quickly.

The primary role includes:

• Drive the roadmap strategy for end-to-end Dynamics AX and CRM scenarios across IT that integrates other platform technologies and services within Strategic Enterprise Services.

• Develop the vision and roadmaps that bring together all cloud technologies as an integrated eco-system that will result in business value to our stakeholders and clients.

• Demonstrate thought leadership across the architectural community to develop the solutions strategy, and provide direction to other solution architects as they execute against the strategy.

• Establish very close partnerships with the product teams and influence the direction that will integrate enterprise thinking and mimics real life IT scenarios in support of our business models.

• Develop artifacts and principals that influence how we implement solutions leveraging the product stack.

• Work across Application and Services Engineering teams to Integrate operational soundness and reuse into our design practices as we drive towards RealTime IT and the unified client experience.

• Lead the teams with early adoption and incubation that will help differentiate Microsoft with real competitive advantage

• Design, Develop and Drive creation of strategic POCs, experiences in support of RealTime IT

• Deliver and present key artifacts and communication strategies to Senior Leadership across RealTime IT scenarios

• Line manage engineering team of 7-9 FTE’s

The position requires:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or 15+ of years’ experience in related technical disciplines

• Minimum 15 years of experience in delivering enterprise platform solution

• Minimum 8+ years of experience building data integrations including: (A2A,B2B,integration with Package Products, and integration with other IT Platforms)

• Minimum 8+ years of working with large scale data, data collection, data distribution, data mastering

• Minimum 8+ years of working with customer experience UI, workflow and on online experiences

• Minimum 8+ years of experience designing physical large scale and distributed systems

• Minimum 6+ years of experience working with packaged products and cloud technologies

• Minimum 10+ designing and implementing large scale distributed tracking, monitoring and issue tracking and resolution systems, integration with engineering platform and operational systems

• Minimum 4+ years of experience with mobile and other form factor technologies

• Minimum 6+ years of experience delivering large scale roadmaps across enterprise solutions

• Excellent analytical, development and debugging skills across integration platforms and large scale distributed systems

• Proven ability to work effectively within a team and across groups

• Outstanding communication skills and can delivery conceptual designs that cater to various audiences from engineering to executive briefings

• Proven track record of conceptual and physical designs

• Strong focus on performance with a proven ability to implement key performance improvements to a product or service

• Proven skills with Windows Server, SOA, T-SQL, ETL, SSIS, Data warehousing, SQL Server, HTML, C#, IIS and .NET technology, ASPX, System Center, SCOM, WCF, Networking Protocols and Infrastructure Topology

• Good understanding of cloud computing concepts and platforms (i.e. SQL Azure, Azure Appfabric, Windows Azure, SharePoint Online, other)

• Ability to provide technical leadership at the senior level across disciplines

• Strong working knowledge of data security, access security, role security, provisioning services, networking, and privacy methods

• Experience designing, developing and driving solutions in a global delivery model

• Experience with SOA, SQL Server, .Net Framework, SharePoint Server, ASP, and WCF

• Experience with CI, BI, targeting, segmentation and building realtime and near realtime reporting strategies and systems

• Experience working with security, authentication, authorization and data awareness (LBI, MBI, HBI and PII) requirements including encryption (in transit and at rest)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Software Engineer

Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The Information Protection team is chartered with the very challenging missions of delivering on core mail delivery/hygiene in Exchange/o365 as well as compliance scenarios across Exchange, SharePoint and other office products and o365 hosted services.

IPTDLP team is looking for strong software engineer to help us in building and servicing challenging features in Exchange Transport.   Exchange Transport is truly a core piece of technology and critical to the success of Office 365. As time goes on, more workloads are being run on Transport, and we are running in many different environments, with higher and higher scale. This is driving more challenges for our team and we are growing the size of the team and team capability. We need a strong software engineer to join our team and take on some of these challenges directly and in collaboration in others. We are looking for a Principal developer that is technically strong, excited about new challenges, comfortable with ambiguities and willing to take on larger scope and ownership. You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.

Primary responsibility:

- Design and deliver features end to end that are ‘serviceable’. Distributed computation, high scale, high availability, geo-redundancy, low maintenance and with provable quality

- Able to handle large scope and complicated feature ownership by working under self-driven initiatives with PM and across teams

Requirements:

- A degree in CS or similar

- 8+ years software development experience with familiarity of at least one of OOP languages: C++/C#/Java

- Strong coding and problem solving skills

- Server and/or service experience is preferred but is not a must

- Able to ramp up new technologies fast

Come and stretch your talent in a highly technical team. You will have plenty of opportunities to grow if you are a developer who is strong, excited about the space and is hungry!

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Software Engineer

Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The Information Protection team is chartered with the very challenging missions of delivering on core mail delivery/hygiene in Exchange/o365 as well as compliance scenarios across Exchange, SharePoint and other office products and o365 hosted services.

IPTDLP team is looking for strong software engineer to help us in building and servicing challenging features in Exchange Transport.   Exchange Transport is truly a core piece of technology and critical to the success of Office 365. As time goes on, more workloads are being run on Transport, and we are running in many different environments, with higher and higher scale. This is driving more challenges for our team and we are growing the size of the team and team capability. We need a strong software engineer to join our team and take on some of these challenges directly and in collaboration in others. We are looking for a Principal developer that is technically strong, excited about new challenges, comfortable with ambiguities and willing to take on larger scope and ownership. You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.

Primary responsibility:

- Design and deliver features end to end that are ‘serviceable’. Distributed computation, high scale, high availability, geo-redundancy, low maintenance and with provable quality

- Able to handle large scope and complicated feature ownership by working under self-driven initiatives with PM and across teams

Requirements:

- A degree in CS or similar

- 8+ years software development experience with familiarity of at least one of OOP languages: C++/C#/Java

- Strong coding and problem solving skills

- Server and/or service experience is preferred but is not a must

- Able to ramp up new technologies fast

Come and stretch your talent in a highly technical team. You will have plenty of opportunities to grow if you are a developer who is strong, excited about the space and is hungry!

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Azure is undergoing explosive growth (150% y/y) as customers around the world realize the benefits of moving their services and applications on to the cloud. Security is the foremost concern for our customers as they move their services outside their datacenter. The charter of the Windows Azure Security group is to ensure that Azure is the most secure and resilient cloud platform. We are responsible for identity and access control management, secrets/key management, encryption and data protection, security monitoring agent, anti-malware protection, fraud detection automation, and other security capabilities for the Azure platform. We are looking for a manager to lead, define, and design cloud scale platform security services in these areas. This is a unique opportunity building and owning core security technologies and applying them to the cloud scale. In this position, you will be responsible for all aspects of building and running highly available secure distributed services providing mission critical functionality for Azure. These are high visibility projects which are of the highest priority for Azure.

Qualifications include:

Strong design and development experience, preferably with distributed programming models.

Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.

Experience managing at least 3-5 developers and leading them through at least one ship cycle.

Passion in building and designing very large scale systems; prior experience in building large scale online systems is a big plus.

The ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long term needs is essential.

Knowledge of security technologies is highly desirable but not required.

8+ years of software development experience in a product group.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Service Engineering Manager

Job Purpose:

Microsoft IT (MSIT) has one of the most exciting and challenging IT environments in the world. Delivering services that enable our customers, our partners, and our employees to be the best they can be and using the products we make in groundbreaking ways is one of the most invigorating positions available in Microsoft or anywhere in the world.

As part of the Corporate Functions IT leadership team, you will lead the Service Engineering Organization that deploys and provides escalation support for our four distinct business functions that run the company: HR, Finance, Legal and IT. In this role, you will leverage your technical experience and knowledge in services architecture to design and deploy scalable solutions, collaborating with multiple teams and disciplines to create truly horizontally-scalable and robust services.

We particularly look for at least one of two backgrounds: either as a developer or as an operations engineer (preferably both). If you were a developer, you were the one on the team who got most excited by increasing the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of your services-oriented architecture. You loved adding telemetry to your application so that you could investigate how your users interacted with and experienced your application.   If you were an operations engineer, you were the one who was keen on automation, never wanting to do the same manual task twice.

Core Job Responsibilities include:  

  Develop and maintain a vision and strategy for the Service Engineering Organization

  Develop and own the strategy and roadmap for tools to support Service Engineering‘s catalog of Services

  Understand the customer and market to align the Service Engineering organization to successfully achieve the service-wide IT vision and strategy

  Deliver real-time and self-serve experiences across our service portfolio and aligned with Microsoft’s server and cloud platform strategy

  Design Services using Service Oriented Architecture

  Design of effective diagnostics and alerting

  Minimize failures and resulting customer impact through Resilience Modelling Analysis (FMEA for Cloud) and Simulating service outages

  Drive Data-driven analysis of current service behavior to inform service designs, and identify ways that standard data center SKUs can be leveraged.

  Work with Software Engineers to help design approaches to enable “Testing in Production” (Tip) as a strategic alternative to more extensive pre-production testing.

  Understand end to end performance characteristics of services

  Design systems and processes for running enterprise or consumer services at scale, drive cost & operational efficiency

  Deliver one service management solution and experience for change, problem, configuration and incident management

  Review, cost and design optimized designs based on rigorous understanding of costs and returns

  Measure and drive improvement in organizational performance through the identification and implementation of performance metrics.

  Deliver high level design documents addressing the business, infrastructure, security, support and operational needs of a solution

  Provide excellent customer service, leadership and communication to the organization and businesses we support

Skills/Qualifications:

  Minimum 10+ years of current software development/service engineering expertise and a minimum of 5 years leading or managing a high performing Engineering or Service Engineering organization

  Ability to read/write and debug code

  Expertise in a scripting language such as Powershell, Python, or Perl

  Knowledge in OOD and an OOP language such as C# or Java

  Knowledge and familiarity with Open/Enterprise Architecture frameworks

  Knowledge of how the entire service landscape works (Service dependencies) and related technologies

  Service Lifecycle COGS and planning

  Deep familiarity with cloud technology strengths and limitations

  Deep knowledge of building high-performance, highly available, reliable, distributed software & services

  Experience with continuous delivery & configuration management

  Track record of leading technical teams across stages of service development and delivery using agile methods

  Strong problem solving and algorithmic thinking

  Strong ability to deal with ambiguity and identify important problems to solve

  Track record building and coordinating technical/architectural plans to address enterprise service goals and challenges

  Experience automating the delivery and management of private and public cloud infrastructure series at enterprise scale using the Microsoft server and cloud platform or similar technology

  In-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of network services and technologies and how they are evolving. Strong candidates should be knowledgeable of future IT trends in multiple areas such as security, network and system virtualization, WAN routing, datacenter ecosystem, disaster recovery, SAN, and wireless networking.

  Management experience with executive communications, coaching others, driving and delivering results, fostering teamwork, enforcing standards, giving constructive feedback.

  Experience working in virtual team environments across business boundaries to deliver value beyond the scope of your reporting structure, focus on business value to the Microsoft ecosystem of customers, partners, and employees, and be a champion for intellectual property (IP) sharing and reuse.    

  Strong domain knowledge in Human Resources, Finance, Legal and IT preferred.

  A BS in Computer Science or Engineering strongly preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Group Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (MICO) team is chartered with supporting profitable growth of Microsoft’s Cloud business by optimizing the infrastructure capacity management.   Cloud services enable a promise of elastic scale and infinite capacity. A key challenge in realizing this promise is to always know the ideal quantity of infrastructure resources (datacenters, power, racks, servers, network devices, bandwidth, IP addresses…) to carry - a hard problem, and employ near real-time mechanisms to achieve the planned resource utilization at scale - an even harder problem.

We envision a dynamic, scalable and distributed system that will allow us to continuously model the planned quantity and automatically adjust the provisioning and consumption rate of cloud infrastructure resources. An ideal system will employ machine learning, change modelling, automation of business process and logistics, real-time data collection and analysis, prioritization of resource allocations, and other techniques to efficiently deliver customer promise around infinite cloud resources.

We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about solving large business optimization problems at scale and develop a new class of services.   If you are comfortable working in a start-up/v1 effort, motivated by solving hard business process problems with technology, in a continuous learning environment then this could be the position for you.

Responsibilities

  Leading a new team of engineers to design and implement a scalable and highly available capacity provisioning system

  Design and implement an automated workflow to encapsulate and optimize tasks necessary to provision infrastructure resources from ‘signal’ to ‘live’ state.

  Employ innovative techniques to collect high fidelity data about provisioning progress, automatically identify salient gaps or deviations from planned model, and driving ongoing optimizations.

  Coach and develop team members

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent, MS or PhD preferred

• 5+ years of experience leading a development of software platforms, preferably in server or cloud based systems

• Knowledge of various techniques to automate business or engineering processes at scale

  Proven track record of design and technical accomplishment

• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques

• Strong problem solving, debugging and communication skills

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal IT PM Mgr

Be part of a strong team with global impact and scope, running critical services for Microsoft IT (MSIT). The Service Deployment and Operations (SDO) organization is a global organization responsible for IT Hosting Services and IT Support Services. We have a passion for quality, service and technology, and we are looking for a seasoned Program Manager to join Global Capacity Services’ (GCS) leadership team. The ideal candidate has the capability and desire to work in a broad capacity across business, technology, strategy, processes and people.  

This Program Manager role will focus on driving Infrastructure service costing (on-premise and Azure), charge back / show back models and predictive financial analysis to help improve our service strategy and service offerings. This role will act as the primary liaison with IT customers and finance business partners to develop, manage, and report infra services consumption data, historical trends and future forecasts to help them better utilize our services and levers to optimize.

Primary Responsibilities Include:

  Partner with the EIS (Enterprise Infra Services) service owners to develop financial service costing and service charge back models and analytics to support and inform service chargeback / showback strategy.

  Partner with the IT finance organization to define IT wide strategy and the implementation of infrastructure services chargeback/showback, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and cost optimization.

  Partner with consumers (BPUs - IT Business Process Units) of infrastructure services to develop showback/chargeback analytics, reporting views and review cadence to establish ongoing understanding of consumption of Infrastructure services and the resulting financial impact.

  Help IT BPUs and IT leadership teams to understand the trends and levers to help optimize costs related to infrastructure services.

  Collaborate with Infra service owners and Finance organization establish processes to integrate service costing and chargeback policies into ongoing budgeting and planning cycles

  Program manage the next gen billing/showback/chargeback platform launch in partnership with GCS billing, other partners like GFS and Azure and external solution providers like Apptio and Cloud Cruiser.

  Provide ‘what if’ modeling/analysis as needed

  Unit cost analysis for SDO service (cost per ticket, cost per alert, cost per server, etc.)

  Cost roadmap and impact for cloud adoption using Azure.

  Assist in creating content and performing periodic presentations to educate the broader team on.

Competencies Required:

  Service costing and cost modeling expertise with excellent overall financial analysis and planning skills, including ability to assess current strategies and develop new strategies to optimize the business. Experience operating within large enterprise infrastructure environments and services a plus.

  Ability to communicate financial information in way that is easily understood and actionable by all levels.

  Excellent communication and negotiation skills that can be employed when partnering with Finance business partners and other stakeholders in order to build relationships and achieve goals.

  Ability to understand complex financial systems interactions and reporting structures.

  Comfortable working with all levels of management and critically evaluate and concisely communicate business issues/risks with conviction to business and financial partners.

  Ability to influence without authority.

  Ability to navigate and resolve unstructured deliverables and problems with equanimity.

  Ability to juggle overlapping and sometimes competing commitment timelines and reprioritize as necessary in order to meet current business objectives.

  Excellent Excel skills a must.

  Solid program management skills

  BA/BS a must. Finance / Accounting Major preferred. MBA preferred.

  Minimum of 6+ years of related IT experience preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Engineer, Principal

Do you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge cloud-scale distributed systems technologies? Do you want to enable massive scale, stateful cloud applications that are self-managing and can be operated with ease in public or private datacenters around the world? Do you want to contribute to the critical solutions for Azure on which both cloud and enterprise computing depends? Do you want to be part of a fast paced and energetic team?

The Azure HyperScale Compute team is looking for highly motivated and talented engineers to design and deliver the next generation platform for Internet of Things (IoT), Platform-as-a-Service and Messaging. Engineers in this team work on solving some of the most complex and challenging problems in distributed systems, for example:

- Internet of Things (IoT) - the next major wave of computing, from working with standard protocols like AMQP, MQTT or WebSockets, to building massively distributed messaging and compute systems designed for IoT

- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) - a highly decentralized autonomous platform that cleanly abstracts and effectively solves hard distributed systems problems like failure detection, leader election, replicated state machines, etc. and makes it easy to develop and manage stateless and stateful reliable micro-services running at high-density on shared pool of machines. This platform powers many critical 1st and 3rd party internet scale services and runs symmetrically in cloud and on premises.

- Systems that scale and perform in almost all dimensions - millions of transactions per second with multiple GB/s ingress and egress with sub-second end-to-end latency, systems that run across tens or hundreds of thousands of machines, and handle petabytes of data, etc.

- Integration ecosystem - support clients running on various hardware form factors and integrate with different backend systems like Hadoop, Storm, Azure Stream Analytics, etc.

Successful engineers in our team will have strong problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills, drive for execution and results, while delivering quality software for large scale projects. We value passion, creativity, agility, accountability and desire to learn new complex technical areas. You will be an important part of a team of highly motivated and talented individuals and this is a great opportunity to challenge yourself, grow your career and influence the next generation of distributed systems platform for Microsoft.

An ideal candidate will have the following skills and experiences:

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

- Solid coding skills in C/C++ or C#/Java

- Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming, strong inclination for architecting at scale

- Excellent technical design, problem solving, debugging and communication skills

- Demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services

- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Patent Engineer

Are you a technical person looking for a way to leverage your technical knowledge in new strategic and creative directions? Do you like thinking about where Microsoft is heading in the future and applying your technical knowledge to help predict what technologies and competitors will play a role in that future? Do you enjoy the challenge of working and communicating with a wide variety of people?   We are looking for a strongly technical person to bring deep subject matter expertise and creative, “big picture” approach to our patent team to help us build the intellectual property portfolio that Microsoft will need for those future scenarios.

Patents are a key element of Microsoft’s strategy - from establishing the value of Microsoft’s longstanding R&D investments through the our patent licensing programs to creating and maintaining industry differentiating intellectual property to augmenting Microsoft’s patent position through targeted licenses, acquisitions, and alliances with industry players.   The Innovation & Intellectual Property Group’s (IIPG) Patent Strategy team is an interdisciplinary team at the center of these activities and responsible for creating, maintaining and executing Microsoft’s patent strategy.

We are looking for a unique individual who combines a deep knowledge of a technical area and a passion for creative, strategic thinking about the future of Microsoft with an interest in learning about intellectual property.   Ideal candidates will have an interest and curiosity to understand technology markets and the underlying trends driving them. In this role you will work closely with licensing executives, engineers in Microsoft’s various businesses, and patent prosecution and litigation attorneys in support of Microsoft’s patent development, licensing programs, litigation efforts and acquisition efforts.   Exemplary responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:

  Contributing to IIPG’s strategy development process by applying your technical proficiency and creative problem solving skills to recognize market trends, opportunities and threats

  Researching emerging technology areas, including working with Microsoft engineering teams, to identify critical areas of technology that will be important to Microsoft in the near future

  Identifying and analyzing patents in Microsoft’s portfolio that may be relevant to technologies that are being deployed widely

  Reviewing patent applications during key points of the patent lifecycle to provide detailed guidance on prosecution, international filing decisions, continuations, abandonments, etc. that are necessary to build and maintain our portfolio  

  Reviewing potential ideas coming from inventors all over Microsoft and providing input on which ones should be patented

  Analyzing on patent portfolios that IIPG is evaluating for acquisition to inform its potential value

  Evaluating 3rd party patents, when necessary, in support of licensing negotiations or litigation

  Managing and reviewing work product of external vendors who provide portfolio analysis services  

The Patent team currently has 20+ Patent Engineers with diverse backgrounds and technical expertise.   There is an established career path for the Engineers to grow and advance within IIPG, while staying technical.

Desired qualifications:

  7-9 years work experience and/or research in ONE of the following technical areas:

1. Search & Ads:   search engine technologies, including core search, web crawling/indexing, ranking/relevance, SERP development, local/mobile search, social networks, shopping and ecommerce, and advertising platforms including search and display ads.  

2. User Interfaces: Experience in the design, coding and/or testing of technologies that enable people to interact with computers and other devices, including graphical user interfaces and natural user interfaces. A general understanding of traditional human-computer interfaces, inking, speech, and augmented/virtual reality is preferred but not required.  

  A degree in computer science, computer or electrical engineering or physics or significant work experience in software or hardware development

  Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex situations to diverse audiences

  Demonstrated outstanding written and verbal communication

  Demonstrated advanced knowledge of Excel, proficiency in PowerPoint and ability to ramp quickly on a variety of analytical tools

  Demonstrated ability to partner on projects with others, working across organizations

  Experience in patent analysis and/or supporting patent licensing activities is desirable but not required

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Development Engineer, Principal

Have you ever imagined the world with infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? Everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere in the world at any time via any means (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, PCs, smart devices, etc). Did you ever desire to universally accessible storage system to record the all knowledge known to mankind, to keep all the books/music/videos ever created, or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon? Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality?

If so, Windows Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building Microsoft’s Cloud storage solution - Windows Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world.   We are continuing to have tremendous growth, where we will have several Exabytes of storage within the next year.  

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about distributed storage. To be successful in this area you must thrive dealing with durability, availability, and concurrency, and you should be passionate about storage and the next generation of distributed storage systems. You will be challenged on a daily basis, as you build the largest storage solution Microsoft will offer.

Requirements for the position are:

• Passion for distributed structured storage

• 2+ years of experience building scalable structured distributed storage systems

• 5+ years of experience in developing commercial distributed systems software

• Proficient at C++ and C#, and experience with LINQ/SQL/ADO.net

• Experience with distributed programming models - Experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming

• Excellence in software engineering practices and coding

• Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software

• BS+ in computer science or related fields

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Program Manager – Xbox Video – Microsoft Studios

Be part of something AWESOME at XBOX! We're changing the face of entertainment & looking for passionate individuals who are energized about where we’re headed.  

Do you have a passion for the latest and greatest movies and television on your Xbox console? Do you want to work on something you, your family, and millions of consumers will use daily to get the latest premium entertainment?

The Console Video and Music studio plans to transform entertainment on Xbox One and Xbox 360 and introduce a rich set of new experiences that our users will love! Our team will delight users with enhancements to Xbox Video, Xbox Music, and other console entertainment experiences.

Our team is a champion of modern engineering at Microsoft. We’ve embraced agile and combined engineering and transformed our team culture with amazingly positive results. And, did I mention, we ship often! We deliver updated app experiences to our users every month.

We are looking for a rockstar Principal Program Manager to lead the design, development and coordination of commerce experiences in Xbox Video.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

•      Drive new merchandizing offers and scenarios for Xbox Video movie and TV content:

o      Drive requirements and end-to-end solutions for new video content merchandizing scenarios across all of our partner dependencies (Xbox Commerce teams, Paris content ingestion and services teams, Business, Marketing, etc.)

o      Program manage the design and implementation efforts of new merchandizing scenarios in console client applications (Xbox 360 and Xbox One)

o      Coordinate the implementation with other client applications (Windows, Mobile, and Web) as well as across content types (e.g. applications, games, music, and store) where it makes sense

•      Partner with Windows/Windows Phone teams in the planning and implementation of future store and catalog experiences:

o      Partner with Windows/Windows Phone Video and Music teams, Xbox Commerce teams, Paris content ingestion and services teams, and purchase flow UX teams to input console requirements and feedback as they settle on their plans and implementations of future store and catalog experiences (e.g. schema designs, API calling patterns, programming requirements, UX designs, etc.)

o      Ensure that all scenarios across existing client applications continue to work seamlessly during the implementation of new features and systems

•      Drive planning and implementation of future Windows/Windows Phone store and catalog experiences into Xbox Video and Music console applications:

o      Drive the creation and execution of a plan to synchronize Xbox Video on 360 and Xbox One with future store and catalog experiences and APIs, including partnering with Xbox platform teams owning the purchase flows and other dependent platform components to update as needed

o      Evaluate and create a plan for Xbox Music on 360 and Xbox One, in relation to future store and catalog experiences and APIs

o      Partner with Xbox Shell team to design and execute future purchase and consumption experiences for Xbox Video and Music client applications

o      Coordinate these plans with our partners in Business, Business Development, and Marketing

•      Drive troubleshooting of consumer and system issues around existing offers in Xbox Video and Music clients on console:

o      Act as point person to investigate and resolve customer merchandising, authentication, and licensing issues with existing Xbox Video and Music clients on Xbox 360 and Xbox One

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

•      Develop strategy for maximizing consumer impact while reaching overall Xbox Video goals

•      Run product and service definition to support strategy

•      Design your product and service in partnership with Xbox Video and Music design and engineering teams

•      Manage the end-to-end customer lifecycle

•      Serve as senior sponsor/owner for assigned consumer facing video focus area Initiatives, owning the why and what of your features and coordinate the how with engineering teams

•      Develop a positive team environment by modeling your own behavior to promote good morale

•      Serves as a mentor for other PMs and provide insight into growth opportunities for PMs that want to broaden their skill sets and develop their careers

•      Work closely with Finance and the Xbox Video Business team to feed into, understand, and manage to budget

•      Determine early any required OPEX/Product Development to support product and service development and operations that are new to the product. Make the business case for, and then manage to, any of these new budget requirements. Feed these into the annual budgeting process, and actively drive the requests when out of band of the annual process

•      Stand up as the final and ultimately accountable owner for your owned features

QUALIFICATIONS:

•      7+ years of Program Management experience, including strong partner management and communication skills with deep experience working with external and internal partners

•      At least 5 years of technical industry experience, managing complex UI and/or Engineering teams with proven success on at least two high-quality consumer products or experiences

•      Experience with financial planning (budgets, trends, projections, or analysis) over at least 2 fiscal years

•      Demonstrable creativity, ability to strategically think, and a high tolerance for ambiguity

•      Excellent organizational, communication and cross-collaboration skills, with experience working in highly-matrixed organizations preferred

•      Required Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Development Engineer, Principal

CloudML Is Hiring, Principal SDE (Machine Learning Algorithms)

@ Cambridge, MA Microsoft NERD (New England R & D)

We are in the midst of a revolution in a part of computer science called machine learning.  

Our vision is to make machine learning cloud technology accessible to every enterprise, data scientist, developer, information worker, consumer, and device anywhere in the world. We will design machine learning services that are elastic, highly scalable, highly available and low latency with the long-term design goal to support millions of developers and enterprises, and billions of devices through the cloud.

We are a fast paced team within the Microsoft Cloud + Enterprise organization building an exciting Machine Learning platform that will make it easy to create experiments and deploy robust, scalable and highly available machine learning web services on the cloud.   We will design our platform services both for first party as well as external customers and drive great leverage for our products, and ecosystem of devices and services.

This could be the next best adventure in your career!

We are looking for an experienced Principal SDE who is passionate about delivering a highly available, reliable, secure and elastic cloud platform at a Global Scale.   In this role, you will be responsible for crafting the core machine learning algorithms that power our platform.   As a key member of the engineering organization, you will collaborate extensively with a diverse and talented team from other disciplines such as Development, Test, Data Science, Research and Service Engineering. The algorithms and frameworks you design and develop will enable us to take leading-edge machine learning concepts and make them accessible as an everyday tool, train and score against massive amounts of data, and visualize datasets and machine learning models in intuitive ways.  

You are/have:

•A strong engineering leader, 10+ years of experience in building commercial grade software. Prior experience in shipping cloud services preferred.

•Experience with machine learning algorithms, data mining, statistics, and/or data science, understanding of predictive analytics

•Experience using and/or extending standard machine learning toolkits such as WEKA, Scikits-Learn, Vowpal Wabbit, NLTK or LIBLINEAR. Experience with distributed toolkits such as GraphLab and MLBase desirable

•Practical experience in the trade-offs involved in building high performance, highly available, reliable, distributed systems software

•Good understanding of cloud development principles and patterns such as loose coupling and clean separation of services

•A strong background in data structures and algorithms

•Excellent Communication Skills and the desire to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team across geographies and disciplines (development, test, data science, research and program management)

•Expertise in C++, .NET framework or equivalent programming languages and frameworks. Experience with numerical computing environments (such MATLAB, NumPy or R) and libraries (such as MKL or FFTW) preferred.

•BS or MS degree in Computer science, Math, Physics or equivalent industry experience. A doctoral degree is preferred but not required.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Development Engineer, Principal - 889367

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with $40 billion of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Microsoft is innovating rapidly to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with a world-class online advertising platform and service. The Microsoft Ads Research & Development team is one of the most strategic and growing teams at Microsoft.

As part of a software company with powerful innovations and part media company with global properties, at Microsoft Ads we bring both our technical and creative side to the table. Through incisive analytics, we know who cares - both when and where. We understand how to get in front of the right people at the strongest point of influence. Above all, we love data and excel at interpreting it for our partners. Collecting valuable information from every campaign and mining it for insights.

Our team does Click Prediction, Ranking and Pricing of Ads which are some of the most fundamental problems in Search Advertisement.   Probability of being clicked is the most important feature used in Ranking of Ads. Pricing of Ads borders on Computer Science and Economics and presents some of the most exciting challenges. This particular position is for the team that owns the “Online Infrastructure” for serving the prediction and optimization models. We are looking for a seasoned software developer who is able to contribute code to complex online stack and also serve as a technical lead for a project.

Successful candidate will have to solve ambiguous problems, design and develop machine learning software and analyze big data.   They will be comfortable working within short release cycles with a variety of different technologies. An ideal candidate will be a very quick learner who is able to comfortably switch from one technology to another or one problem to another based on business needs. The work requires collaborating with multiple teams in "Revenue and Relevance", Ads Platform and Business Intelligence.

Successful candidate will be good at solving ambiguous problems requiring strong design skills and Algorithms knowledge. They will be comfortable with developing in C++ and C# and one or more of the scripting languages like Perl and Python.

1) B.S. in Computer Science (or related discipline). M.S. Preferred.  

2) Solid software development and engineering experience (C/C++, C#). (Minimum 5 years)  

3) Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale.

4) Most successful candidates will possess the ability to learn new techniques from textbooks or research papers and apply them to the business problem at hand.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Principal Production Control Data Coordinator - University of California Berkeley - Berkeley, CA

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is: October 18, 2012

Departmental Overview

Infrastructure Services is a unit within UC Berkeley’s Information Services and Technology (IST) organization providing the hardware and systems software to run campus business applications. Most central campus functions are hosted on Infrastructure Services equipment and many departmental applications as well.

Infrastructure Services Production Control Shared Service Center (PCSSC) is seeking a Production Control Coordinator to monitor and manage workflows associated with UC locations including (UC Office of the President, UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley and UC Irvine Medical Center). Workflow management includes assistance in the resolution of errors, job restarts, and reruns associated with UC location business systems work flows. Using skills related to IBM mainframe, Unix, and Windows computer systems and job scheduling software, as well as source-code control-management tools and knowledge of UC multi-campus business systems, the Production Control Coordinator will execute and monitor computer systems business work flows to successful completion.

Responsibilities

Using mainframe and distributed job scheduling software Control-M, Zeke or UC4 - Active Jobs File (AJF) – complete the following:Reconcile “Wait confirmations” and “Ended not OK” conditions“Hold” “Free” and “Delete” jobs based on review of AJF or Queue associated with job streams/flows for combined UCOP/UCSF/UCB production schedulesForce END OK termination of jobs “not-submitted ”or ”ended NOTOK”Apply filters to limit AJF review and analysis to specific applicationsDisplay log messages associated with the completed execution of a jobEdit Job Control Language (JCL) of a job schedule definition queued on the AJF for revisions necessary to successfully complete the jobCode, schedule, execute and confirm successful completion of adhoc production job requests for multiple UC locations.Perform restart/rerun procedures with Job Control Language (JCL)/Script overridesPerform restart/rerun procedures using Control-M RestartConfer with Application Services on proper sequencing of tasksModify appropriate IN/OUT conditions to reflect proper sequencing of restart/rerun job streamsAdd/Modify Control-M/Zeke/UC4 job scheduler definitions, and calendarsPrepare shift turnover documentation.Define, code, and submit trouble tickets clearly describing production job stream problems. Escalate trouble tickets to appropriate support groups as necessary.Convert and migrate existing jobs/schedules of other UC campuses into BMC Control-M. Code and test converted/migrated jobs and schedules prior to production turnover.Administer PageCenter web browsing of mainframe generated reports. Including: Add/Change/Delete user account definition; Add/Delete users from User Groups; Add/Change/Delete user groups; Add/Change/Delete Pageset definitions; Authorize application access.Migrate production job control streams (Job Control Language/JCL) using source control management tools.Monitor FTP Server. Identify and report failed FTP processes.Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/trainingTechnical skills and knowledge of BMC Control-M and Enterprise Manager and other automated job scheduling software, utility programs, and associated subsystemsTechnical skills and knowledge to maintain mainframe TSO/ISPF, Windows and Unix user environment associated with a Production Control Login IDProficient in MS Office Word and ExcelExperience with Mainframe z/OS TSO/ISPF and SDSFKnowledge of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) flow and controlExperience with Levy Ray, Shoup (LRS) PageCenter account administrationKnowledge and skill with mainframe z/OS operating system file organizations (Sequential, PDS, VSAM)Strong verbal and written communication skillsAbility to work non-prime shift hours and weekend on-call supportPreferred Qualifications Experience with BMC Control-M and Enterprise Manager.Experience with ASG Zeke, or UC4 job schedulers a plus.Knowledge of UCSF, UCOP or UC Berkeley production workloads and job flows a plus.Salary & Benefits

The annual salary range for this position is $49,080 - $72,864. Salary offered will be commensurate with experience.

For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit:

http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/forms_pubs/misc/benefits_of_belonging.pdf

How to Apply

Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying.

Other Information

This position is governed by the terms and conditions in the agreement for the Clerical Unit (CX) between the University of California and the Coalition of University Employees (CUE/Teamsters).

The current bargaining agreement manual can be found at:
http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/employees/policies_employee_labor_relations/collective_bargaining_units/clerical_cx/agreement.html

Criminal Background Check

This position has been designated as sensitive and may require a Criminal Background Check. We reserve the right to make employment contingent upon successful completion of a Criminal Background Check.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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Principal Documentation Scientist--Regulatory and Safety

Job Role Sales Specialist (Cardiology/Radiology)

Territory TBC

Product Interventional Products

Salary Up to £40,000 + Benefits

The Role

Our client is recruiting for a Sales Specialist to sell their devices into both the NHS and Private Sector. ...

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Principal Documentation Scientist--Regulatory and Safety

Job Role Sales Specialist (Cardiology/Radiology)

Territory TBC

Product Interventional Products

Salary Up to £40,000 + Benefits

The Role

Our client is recruiting for a Sales Specialist to sell their devices into both the NHS and Private Sector. ...

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Principal Documentation Scientist--Regulatory and Safety

Job Role Sales Specialist (Cardiology/Radiology)

Territory TBC

Product Interventional Products

Salary Up to £40,000 + Benefits

The Role

Our client is recruiting for a Sales Specialist to sell their devices into both the NHS and Private Sector. ...

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Principal Electrical Designer - USA

Leads discipline design team on assigned project or phase of assigned project. Ensures project discipline deliverables for technical quality, accuracy and compliance with Company standards.Performs project discipline administrative tasks including: developing and monitoring manpower and schedule requirements, establishing discipline design requirements, maintaining design and drafting data, and preparing Work Share Packages.Provides design sketches/technical guidance utilizing theoretical and practical design knowledge for drawing/model preparation by lower-level Designers or CAD Technicians.Schedules and/or reviews/resolves 3D model interferences/clashes.Checks work assigned to lower-level Designers or CAD Technicians for technical quality, accuracy and compliance with customer, Company and discipline standards.Provides training and mentoring of new CAD Technicians and Designers. Provides input to performance appraisals of lower-level personnel.Plans and conducts field investigation trips to work sites as required.

Job Requirements:
Typically ten years progressively responsible discipline related design experience; AA degree or completion of technical courses with 7-10 years of relevant experience.Principal level design position responsible for leading teams as well as performing difficult and complex work assignments involving independent judgment to determine a course of action consistent with established functional and organization's policies and goals. Strong understanding of basic engineering and/or design/drafting concepts. Has general understanding of other disciplines' roles in the design process. Able to lead others in completing tasks in accordance with project procedures and applicable codes and/or standards. Able to discuss routine technical problems and communicate effectively with immediate supervisor and other project personnel.Able to utilize advanced PC, 2D CAD, and 3D CAD tools (if applicable), and other applicable hardware and software to perform duties. Performs advanced design and able to utilize design tools effectively as well as providing technical direction and training. Conducts more complex checking as needed. Ability to meet deadlines and manage priorities is critical. Strong organizational skills as well as the ability to effectively communicate and take a leadership role over the group for which they have supervisory responsibilities.Commitment to customer service and ability to assist others in applying knowledge and understanding in solving functional problems within area of expertise. Ability to maintain confidential information critical.Generally characterized as a "Principal" with ability to discover issues and recommend solutions to business problems uncovered during course of performing assignments. Has less independent contributor responsibilities and more supervisory responsibilities. Provides oversight, expertise and guidance to less experienced individuals. Responsible for scheduling, checking, technical training, progress reports, etc.Typically will regularly interface with departmental staff and upper management, and frequently with outside customers.General attributes required of all WorleyParsons employees involved in leadership include: Zero Harm, Action Orientation, Building Effective Business Relationships, Commitment, Customer Focus, Dealing with Change, Drive for Results, Integrity and Trust, and Leadership Skills including Strategic Ability, Managing Vision & Purpose, Command Skills, and Global Business Knowledge.Willingness to travel or to accept field assignments preferred.Ability to work effectively in teams.For CSA positions - Capability to perform field surveys and utilize survey equipment and transform data into CAD.

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Vice President / Principal

Hiring Company Industry: Financial Services Number of Employees: 100 - 1,000 Employees You will be redirected to TheLadders.com

Job Description
EXCEPTIONAL
FINANCIAL SALES OPPORTUNITY BASED IN

SAN
FRANCISCO

One of the premier financial services/wealth management firms catering exclusively to ultra high net worth private clients, endowments and trusts, is once again recruiting throughout the nation to augment their sales organization. We are seeking new business, hunter type, senior sales candidates to sell a variety of financial products and services to the target market.  We are looking in most major cities but are currently focusing on filling positions in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa/Orlando and Washington DC.

This is a very high earnings position with a generous base income, which, when combined with a production based commission income should yield long term compensation in the upper six figures as well as affording the opportunity to earn into seven figures.

In addition to the strong new business sales background, additional “must haves” are:

You must have a 4 year degree from an accredited school, an advanced degree (MBA) is preferred.
You must have at least 8-10 years of progressively successful relationship sales experience and be customer/client oriented.  
You must have an engaging personality and be able to quickly build trust and confidence with your clients.  You must want to be a trusted advisor.
You must be able to demonstrate high earnings over the past several years and show where you have worked through and succeeded during difficult times.
You must have a financial “stripe” in your background, either through formal education, work related or your own personal appetite for knowledge.  You must understand the difference between finance and accounting.
You must be a fearless networker and have a strong referral network in place.
You must have either built your own successful business or built a successful business within your employer’s structure.  In other
words, we are only looking for entrepreneurial, self-motivated personalities.
You should be involved in your community and be involved in various clubs and organizations…not because your job requires it but because that’s who you are.

Should you be successful in joining this elite world class organization they will train you on their products and proven methodology as well as prepare you for obtaining any required licenses.  You will be among the most exclusive group of Advisors in the country and work with some of the most impressive people in the industry.  We are only seeking applicants that have a sincere desire in helping people and match the above attributes.  The next training class is forming so if the above describes You and you are truly a big game hunter, then you must respond today.

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