Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In Consumer Marketing, we bring that mission to life by transforming how customers discover, compare, and buy across our consumer web experiences.

We are seeking a strategicDirector, WebDevelopmentto own the end-to-end engineering execution for our consumer marketing web ecosystem. This leader will overseefront-end and back-end development, drivecomplianceand governance updates, and ensure our web platforms are secure, performant, accessible, and scalable across global markets. The role manages amulti-million annual budgetand leads anoutsourced delivery organization of 60+ developers, partnering closely with Product, Design, Analytics, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Engineering to ship high-quality experiences with measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end web engineering deliveryacross front-end, back-end, and platform capabilities that enable modern consumer marketing experiences, with clear milestones, release discipline, and quality gates.

• Set the technical direction and reference architecturefor scalable, secure, high-performing web experiences, including frameworks, APIs, integration patterns, CI/CD, and operational readiness.

• Lead compliance execution and governancein partnership with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Accessibility teams, ensuring continuous readiness for audits, policy changes, and remediation timelines.

• Drive site health and customer experience excellenceby improving performance (Core Web Vitals), reliability, monitoring, incident response, and post-launch validation across devices and locales.

• Establish engineering standards and ways of workingincluding code quality, automated testing (unit/integration/E2E), documentation, change management, and continuous improvement rituals.

• Manage a $6M+ annual budgetwith strong forecasting, prioritization, and ROI accountability, ensuring investments translate to measurable delivery outcomes.

• Lead andoptimizean outsourced team of 60+ developersthrough clear operating models, capacity planning, performance management, anddeliveryaccountability across partner agencies.

• Partner cross-functionally to translate strategy into buildable plans, aligning with Web Strategy, Design, Content, and Analytics on requirements, tradeoffs, risks, and executive communications.