Senior Electrical Standards Engineer, Datacenter

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**Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities include**:
As a Sr Electrical Standards Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and delivering Microsoft's global standards and CE programs. This position demands a deep understanding of mission-critical environments and a commitment to delivering global consistency and predictability.

As a technical authority for onsite operations, you will lead efforts to identify and recommend optimal solutions to solve complex problems. Your expertise in electrical infrastructure maintenance and operations will be essential in ensuring that our data centers meet the highest standards of reliability and availability. You will drive the maintenance strategy as well as operational requirements for assigned equipment asset classes.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to leverage a variety of information sources, including monitoring program health, evaluating industry trends and best practices, and analyzing customer insights and lessons learned. You will champion the delivery of new developments and implementation of programs developed by our group, and serve as an escalation point for issues identified in the operations of our data centers.

As a Sr Electrical Engineer, you will be expected to lead, mentor, and coach other engineers on the team as well as in the broader organization. You will possess an advanced understanding of all equipment within your scope and drive organization wide programs, providing thought and peer leadership throughout.

This is an exciting opportunity for a driven and talented individual to join our team and make a meaningful impact on the future of Microsoft's global operations.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:

- 12+ years relevant _technical project management, program management, mission critical electrical infrastructure operation and maintenance, or electrical engineering _experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in _Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering,_or related field AND 5+ years _technical project management, program management, mission critical electrical infrastructure operation and maintenance, or electrical engineering experience_
- OR Master's Degree in _Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering,_or related field AND 4+ years _technical project management, program management, mission critical electrical infrastructure operation and maintenance, or electrical engineering experience_
- OR Doctorate Degree in _Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering,_or related field AND 2+ years _technical project management, program management, mission critical electrical infrastructure operation and maintenance, or electrical engineering experience._

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Advanced ability to create clear, consistent, and understandable technical documentation to be leveraged by partner teams.
- Advanced understanding of large-scale critical infrastructure.
- Experience creating and/or executing large-scale maintenance and reliability programs.
- Professional certifications such as Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Professional Engineer (PE), Chartered Engineer (CEng), or Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Experience in management, engineering, or operations of hyperscale mission critical environments.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and able to communicate effectively across multiple levels of the organization.
- Ability to analyze large sets of data. Experience utilizing PowerBI for data analysis is desirable.
- Proven experience driving standards and consensus across teams and disciplines.
- Proven to be self-starting and able to work effectively in a remote position.
- Proven ability to manage, prioritize and successfully execute multiple concurrent mission-critical projects.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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