# Principal Data Scientist Manager

OverviewCloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World’s largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. 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 program managers to help achieve that mission. If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, have strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out of the box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - this job is for you! We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist Manager to define and lead the analytics strategy, executive reporting, governance, and AI innovation for a critical data center utilization and power reclamation function. The successful candidate will establish trusted metrics, connect fragmented planning and execution signals, identify systemic opportunities, and provide decision intelligence for senior

- **Id**: 4131816
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-data-scientist-manager>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T22:39:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:36:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8081
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Power BI** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:36:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T03:38:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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