Principal Quality Engineering Manager

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. 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 engineers to help achieve that mission. 

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. 

We are looking for a Principal Supplier Quality and Operations Engineering Manager. 

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As a Supplier Quality and Operations Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for supplier qualifications, product transfers, and continuous supplier operations excellence to deliver the products on time with highest quality for Microsoft. You will collaborate with internal counterparts and suppliers worldwide. You will be responsible for ensuring initial and continuous quality and operations performance by monitoring, auditing, and improving processes as well as resolving any technical and operational issues by leveraging formal quality processes and techniques.  You will also be responsible for effectively communicating your team's deliverables to wide audiences and influencing other teams to achieve quality goals.

• Supplier Management: Lead a professional team to manage product qualifications through quality phase-gate deliverables. Qualify new manufacturing suppliers, new sites, new lines, enable new capabilities and processes. And continuously monitor, audit, and drive improvements.
• Quality Risk Management: Effectively manage quality risks by containing, mitigating, and resolving top-quality issues affecting global data centers.
• Shift left management: Establish and maintain a close loop quality feedback mechanism in order to capture lessons learned and then push to early development phase to intercept issues.
• Supplier Quality Strategy: Develop and implement a robust supplier quality management strategy to ensure the highest quality standards in data center hardware manufacturing.
• Continuous Supply: Collaborate with the supply chain team to establish and maintain the best supplier quality management strategy for continuous supply and support increased capacity and improvements.