Senior Mechanical Engineer Manager Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Senior Mechanical Engineer Manager

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Administration

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services. The CO+I Critical Environment Systems Intelligence (CESI) team is responsible for designing and delivering solutions to support global datacenter operations and to improve availability. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer Manager, you will be a key player in this transition, responsible for managing a team of engineers and onboarding as well as driving the modernization of mechanical and electrical hierarchy for existing and new datacenters.

Job Responsibility:

Manage, mentor, and grow the engineers and contributors working on hierarchy initiatives.
Set clear expectations, ownership boundaries, and success metrics for the Hierarchy Team.
Foster a culture of proactive design, automation-first thinking, and outcome-driven execution for the hierarchy system
Own the Mechanical and Electrical Hierarchy vision, roadmap, and execution, ensuring alignment with business outcomes, site operations, and long-term platform scalability.
Drive the standardization of hierarchy models across assets, systems, and telemetry sources to enable consistent onboarding and operational insights.
Serve as the single-threaded owner for hierarchy quality, correctness, and lifecycle management.
Manage the strategy and implementation of 0-touch onboarding for Mechanical and Electrical hierarchy data across new build and legacy sites.
Define and enforce automation-first onboarding principles, minimizing manual data entry and eliminating rework.
Partner with data, tooling, and platform teams to enable automated ingestion, validation, and publishing of hierarchy data.
Define requirements and success criteria for hierarchy-related tooling, including authoring, validation, visualization, and health monitoring.
Act as a trusted technical authority for complex hierarchy-related questions and escalations.
Establish and enforce hierarchy governance processes, including change management, validation rules, and exception handling.
Define quality metrics (e.g., completeness, accuracy, automation coverage) and drive continuous improvement toward measurable targets.
Lead root-cause analysis for hierarchy defects and systemic onboarding failures.
Embody our culture and values.

Requirements:

Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related technical engineering experience in Data Center OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related technical engineering experience in Data Center OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have:

Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related technical engineering experience in Data Center OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience in Data Center.
1+ year(s) people management experience.
Demonstrated experience producing executable and measurable results
focused on delivering impact and identifying, managing, and mitigating risks.
Demonstrated technical problem solving and excellent analytical, verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills with attention to detail.
3+ years of Managerial Experience
Ability to communicate with a broad range of audiences with varying technical abilities and to use data as a story-telling device.
Ability to effectively deal with ambiguity and work independently to derive actionable solutions.
Ability to successfully influence without authority and manage efforts through relationships.
Ability to promote a collaborative environment and bring a positive attitude to difficult situations.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 29, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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