If you’re looking for an impactful opportunity to use technology and enable strategic business decision making, then, this role in Worldwide Incentive Compensation may just be your next great career adventure!  

The BAS-Data Engineer is responsible for working with upstream data owners, business stakeholders to understand data and automate and streamline data pull which will enable internal users to build models and perform analytics; as well as helping external field users with any data inquiries. The ideal candidate excels having the ability to understand the business strategy and align the data/tools and reporting to provide rich insights and support data driven decisions.  Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission. 

The Mission and The Team 

The Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions (MCAPS) organization unifies the commercial go to market organization to accelerate our progress, stay true to the Microsoft mission, and empower our customers, partners, people, and Microsoft’s growth. The Strategy & Operations (S&O) team empowers the entire MCAPS organization. Strategy & Operations team is chartered with: 

Leading the development and orchestration of our Commercial strategy and operating model,

Ensuring our global organization can serve our customers and partners more effectively, efficiently, and with competitive differentiation, and

Delivering measurable impact by our ability to grow faster and take share – empowering our people to be more agile, successful, and thrilled to work for Microsoft.

Our sellers are key to how customers and partners understand Microsoft’s products and strategies, but how do we align the conversations of thousands of sellers with each other and with the company’s strategy? Within Strategy & Operations, the Worldwide Incentive Compensation (WWIC) team connects strategy to seller behavior in one of the most important ways:  by determining how sellers get paid. The WWIC mission is to Enable Strategy, Motivate Sellers, Reward Results. In pursuit of this mission, the team designs and implements variable incentive-based compensation plans for more than 30,000 sellers, sales leaders, and consultants across Microsoft. We are experts in Sales Incentive Compensation at Microsoft, responsible for aligning incentive plans and targets (quotas) to motivate seller behavior and drive the company's strategies. We are also the end-to-end owners of incentive compensation processes and data which includes quota setting management, delivering timely and accurate payouts, providing business insights based upon performance of sellers to field/segment leaders and executives, business partnering with the field/segments on Incentive Compensation topics, and driving continuous process improvement through review and analysis of incentive compensation performance. 

Responsibilities

Work with external and internal stakeholders to understand data and business requirements and build an optimized data platform   

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc. 

Understand the process, data structure and tools across the organization and seek for simplification, user experience improvement applying a data driven approach.  

Create and maintain optimal data architecture. Liaise with upstream data providers to ensure quality, reliability and timeliness of the data feeds that go into the reporting platform 

Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using relevant tools, for e.g., SQL, Azure, and other ‘big data’ technologies.  

Keep data separated and secure following relevant national/international boundaries, while maintaining PII and Compliant data Security practices. Oversees data expiry practices and establishes and implements processes for data archival and expiry. 

Understand the business strategy and implement changes to the tools and reporting to provide scalable and timely insights to enable data driven decisions. Work with sales compensation analysts, plan design and implementation, field advisors and other WWIC teams to support their data related technical issues and data infrastructure needs.

Bridge gap between technology trends and business needs and adopt best possible platform/techniques to ensure the reporting lands smoothly and in timely fashion.

Strives for high quality service, innovation, and high efficiency in delivery

Define KPI for measuring the success of operations and partner with the teams to ensure it lands well. 

Qualifications

3+ years of experience with following tools:

SQL development, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS

Azure BI offerings (like Azure data factory, Synapse, Machine learning) or equivalent technology

Python

Experience in working with fast paced development, modern Devops approach using GIT, CI/CD Automation

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field. Master’s preferred.

Demonstrated collaboration and proven ability to work effectively in a large, geo dispersed, and virtual team environment.

Provide skills in effective stakeholder management across organizational boundaries. Building strong relationships, deep understanding of the business needs, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous situations. Can effectively cope with change, shift gears comfortably, decide and act without having the total picture and comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly the ability to synthesize complex issues/scenarios into easy-to-understand concepts.

Drive for results having high attention to details and self-discipline.

Experience in leading virtual team of data engineers.

Location/Travel: You may be based anywhere in the United States. You can expect limited global travel, 0 – 25%, contingent upon Covid-19 restrictions.

The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $92,600 and $138,100.

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.