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Do you want to build innovative, industry-leading experiences for connecting to, browsing, querying, and transforming the world’s data regardless of where it resides? Would you enjoy working on an engine for uniform data access and distributed querying over heterogenous data sources? Do you look forward to the challenge of building a highly scalable, multi-tenant service that needs to process petabytes of data on a daily basis?If you answered yes to any of these questions and are looking to work with a high-powered team intent on changing the way the world works with data, we’d love to chat with you. We are looking for an architect with experience working across products and technologies to deliver a delightful, seamless experience for customers.We’re the team that developed the Mashup Engine (M) and Power Query. We already ship monthly to millions of users across Excel, Power/Pro BI, Flow, and PowerApps; but in many ways we’re just getting started. We’re building new services, experiences, and engine capabilities that will broaden the reach of our technologies to several new areas – data “intelligence”, large-scale data analytics, and automated data integration workflows. We plan to use example-based interaction, machine learning, and innovative visualization to make data access and transformation even more intuitive for non-technical users.If the “democratization of data” sounds like a compelling mission, this is the team for you.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities:Working across the Power Query team, the broader Data Integration team, and our partner teams to enable real-world data integration, from no code to complex scenarios, that delight our customers
Unblock challenging customer scenarios by working with multiple teams to drive forward progress and resolutions
Plan and implement product improvements, process changes, quality enhancements, and more to deliver a seamless customer experience
QualificationsBasic qualifications:6+ years of C#, Java, or C software engineering experience
6+ years of product development experience
3+ years of experience troubleshooting complex issues across multiple interacting technologies (front-end, middle-tier, back-end)
Preferred Qualifications:BS degree in Computer Science
Experience with process definition and enhancement, end-to-end excellence in the customer experience, and resolving customer pain points
Familiarity with data access technologies (e.g. ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB, ADO.Net, OData), query languages (e.g. T-SQL, Spark SQL, Hive, MDX, DAX), query generation/optimization, OLAP, and data engineering approaches (ETL, ELT)
Familiarity with data analysis tools (Power BI, Tableau)
Familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, React, Redux, webpack
Familiarity with micro-service architectures, Docker, Service Fabric, Azure blobs/tables/databases, high throughput services
Familiarity with diagnosis and troubleshooting techniques and tools (Fiddler, database traces, network traces, debuggers, KQL, log analysis)
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