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Principal Squad Leader

Microsoft

Work Mode

Onsite

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Location

India, Telangana, Hyderabad

Application Deadline

July 20, 2026

Set portfolio level strategy and technical direction, aligning product vision, system architecture, and execution across multiple squads. Own end to end outcomes, including customer adoption, reliability, cost efficiency, and trust, balancing short term delivery with long term platform investments. Run high velocity squad operations, removing friction, resolving cross team dependencies, and accelerating delivery without compromising quality. Act as a force multiplier, improving how teams operate…

Responsibilities

Lead technical architecture and design decisions, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with regulatory and trust requirements. Translate executive strategy into clear priorities, metrics, and operating mechanisms that teams can execute repeatedly at speed. Build and scale high performing squads, hiring, coaching, and developing leaders while maintaining high talent density and strong ownership. Influence across senior leaders and functions, aligning stakeholders, unblocking decisions, and managing risk and trade offs.

Required Qualifications

13+ years of experience leading largescale, cloud based product and engineering systems in global, enterprise environments. Proven experience leading multiple teams or portfolios in highly matrixed organizations, including ownership of complex technical and organizational dependencies. Strong ability to operate across strategy, architecture, and execution, with a deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and platform tradeoffs. Demonstrated strength in data and metrics driven leadership, with comfort owning and using metrics related to usage, reliability, performance, cost, and quality to drive decisions. Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to communicate technical and business tradeoffs to executive audiences. Deep understanding of product and engineering lifecycles, enterprise customer engagement, and operating cloud services at scale. A track record of driving transformational change, not just incremental optimization. Experience designing or scaling platform architectures or operating models across multiple teams or organizations. Evidence of sustained, company level or multiorganization impact, particularly in complex, regulated, or high trust domains. Comfort making high risk, high leverage technical and business decisions with incomplete or evolving data. Ability to simplify complex technical strategy, align large groups around clear outcomes, and drive execution through ambiguity.

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