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Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.\nThe Microsoft Federal team is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Software Development Consultant, you will own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and develop your technical proficiency.\nResponsibilities\nBusiness Development\nIdentifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies.\nIntellectual Property Management\nActs as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) and leverages IP in projects. Proactively assists in the creation of intellectual property content and seeks areas that are available for more IP. Communicates areas that need refreshing or gaps in intellectual property. Provides feedback for continuous improvement.\nOperational Excellence\nCompletes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy while maintaining adherence to security standards through Delivery Compliance, Privacy, and Security (DCPS). Follows Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines).\nPre-Sales Support\nParticipates in the pre-sale process as needed. Helps scope the project by sharing customer or technical knowledge in their specialty domain by leveraging their expertise as a subject matter expert.\nReadiness\nLearns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends and evaluates their impact on security posture, revisiting the Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Learning Portfolio for Security to deepen understanding of security considerations. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by the domain leadership team. Shares experiences, best practices, and product news within the team. Participates in relevant technical communities at Microsoft.\nTechnical Delivery\nParticipates in and/or may lead meetings with customers/partners to understand their business needs and/or scenario they are trying to solve. Uses business, technology, security, and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints. Engages others (e.g., EAG Security stakeholders) appropriately to understand and define customer requirements, ensuring security is prioritized.\nProactively identifies issues and risks and engages with customers/partners or internal stakeholders (e.g., Project Managers) as appropriate to address and resolve issues while maintaining a security-first mindset.\nImplements technical solutions by completing assigned project tasks with defined quality standards and following Industry Solutions processes and security initiatives. Oversees aspects of implementation.\nFollows the capacity process outlined by Resource, Insights, Capacity, and Capability (RICC) team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.\nProactively manages relationships with customers/partners/stakeholders to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve the experience.\nSupports project planning and the development of project documents by defining the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners with direction/guidance. Implements mitigations on technical, business, and security risks. Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Delivers against Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).\nAdditional Responsibilities\nJoin our Cloud Engineering team as an individual contributor to build in-house solutions and applications for Microsoft Federal. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge software that meets the unique needs of our federal clients, while articulating value propositions for strategic Microsoft products and services.\nDesign, develop, and maintain scalable Kubernetes microservices using Node.js / Python / C#\n\nDevelop and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with Azure services, including Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and Redis.\n\nBuild event-driven architectures using message queuing technologies (e.g., Azure Service Bus) to manage transfer states and enable efficient system decoupling\n\nBuild robust logging and monitoring systems, leveraging tools like Application Insights and Log Analytics\n\nAdvanced storage patterns and practices to efficiently manage high concurrency transfers\n\nDesign and develop intuitive, user-friendly interfaces using React to enhance user experience across a modern, cloud-native web platform\n\nDesign, implement, and optimize data models and queries in Azure Cosmos DB, ensuring efficient storage, high performance, and scalability for large-scale, concurrent data operations\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 3+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business OR equivalent experience. \nOther Requirements\nSecurity Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or\ngovernment security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include,\nbut are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:\nClassified as Microsoft Confidential\nThe successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.\nAbility to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are\nrequired for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer\nscreening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.\nClearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security\nclearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide\nclearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud\nbackground check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nCitizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due\nto citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal,\nstate, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain\ncitizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal\nrequirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or\nverified US government Clearance\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\n3+ years work experience in relevant area of business.\nTechnical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics).\nDelivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).\n5 years plus years of software engineering and technical experience in a relevant business area. \nPossession of technical certifications in specific domains or service lines, such as Azure or Security. \nExpertise in using Bicep or similar domain-specific languages for Azure infrastructure as code. \nPractical experience in deploying, managing, and scaling applications with Kubernetes. \nStrong understanding of Microservice Architecture and related Design Patterns. \nProficiency in developing and maintaining applications using Node.js / Python / C#. \nCompetence in creating and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub DevOps. \nFamiliarity with containerization and managing Docker containers. \nKnowledge of Azure Graph API for managing Azure resources. \nExperience in implementing and managing security measures with Windows Defender or similar tools. \nTechnology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,800 - $193,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $126,100 - $207,600 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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