.OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further.This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence.The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI.Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data structured, semi-structured, and unstructured.We are in the process of integrating our disparate products into Azure Synapse Analytics with a set of experiences that are meant to simplify and accelerate time to value.The Big Data Analytics team is looking for an experienced developer for the position of Software Development Engineer II based in Barcelona, Spain.We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company.As a result, our customers are better served.QualificationsRequired / Minimum QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline.Years of software engineering and product development experience in industryYears of proven track record of shipping end-user software services or productsYears of in-depth object-oriented programming experience in (not limited to) Java / C++ / C#Equal ability in reading and enhancing existing code as well as writing entirely new code from scratch.ResponsibilitiesCreate, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for product scenarios.Drive identification of dependencies and the documentation and development of design to completion for a feature, product, application, service, or platform.Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.G., product managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items