New 
Principal Data Scientist Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Oct 18, 2025 | |
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OverviewWith the continued growth of cloud computing and the goal of delivering a platform that customers trust and enjoy, the Azure Core Insights team is focused on strengthening service availability and reliability. We are hiring an experienced Principal Data Scientist Manager to join our agile and diverse team. This role involves applying data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to build tools that monitor service quality and generate insights to help mitigate customer-impacting issues. As a Principal Data Scientist Manager, you will lead efforts to develop intelligent systems that detect anomalies, predict potential disruptions, and provide actionable diagnostics. You will collaborate across engineering and product teams to ensure our solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with customer needs. Your work will directly contribute to improving the resilience of Microsoft Azure services and enhancing the customer experience. We are looking for individuals who bring curiosity, technical depth, and a commitment to inclusive innovation. Whether your background is in data science, cloud infrastructure, or service reliability, you will find opportunities to grow and make meaningful contributions in a supportive and flexible work environment. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesYou will oversee data acquisition and ensure data is properly formatted and described. You'll also coach engineers in data cleaning and analysis best practices, identify gaps in current data sets, and drive ethics and privacy discussions around data collection and preparation.You will evaluate your team's models and recommend improvements as necessary, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale. You'll also conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques, and identify and invent new evaluation methods.You will research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, so that you can identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices. You'll also write extensible code that spans multiple features, and develop expertise in proper debugging techniques.You will define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities. You'll also commit to a customer-oriented focus by acknowledging their needs, and offer customer pragmatic solutions that align with their data capabilities.You will produce both data and AI products that scale, efficiently manage big data, build fast corelations, generate root causes, and measure precision and recall.You will work with platform developers and program managers to drive up the service quality and customer experience.You will participate and contribute to resolving any customer impacting issues in your areas of responsibility.Other * Embody our culture and values | |