Multidisciplinary Manager (Software Engineer) - FDE

About the role

In Microsoft's Frontier Company Engineering team, you will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model, working side by side with customer teams to deliver production-ready solutions in days. The role combines portfolio leadership, coaching talent and hands-on engagement, with work powered by AI across the development lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team and own a portfolio of work to maximise customer and Microsoft value.
• Provide coaching, career development and performance support for engineers in software engineering, technical program management and data science.
• Act as a player-coach on selected engagements, modelling engineering fundamentals and inclusive collaboration.
• Partner with leadership and discipline managers to keep team rhythms healthy and operations strong.
• Elevate engineering practices, share reusable patterns and accelerators, and strengthen the multidisciplinary operating model.
• Guide teams to apply responsible AI practices and integrate emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, plus technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python, or equivalent experience.
• People management experience.
• Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
• Preferred: customer-facing, project-delivery, professional services or consulting experience.
• Preferred: experience designing, deploying and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring and cloud AI platforms.
• Comfortable travelling up to 25%.

What we offer

• Typical base pay range in the UK of £93,500 to £161,800 per year, depending on the role.
• Some roles may be eligible for additional benefits.