Microsoft Senior Hardware Engineering Program Manager 

United States, Washington 

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Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, engineer to help achieve that mission.

Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE)and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineer with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions,and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage andthe Cloud infrastructure.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 4+ years’ experience in Engineering, Product / Technical Program Management or Product Development
  • OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and / or cross-team projects.
• Experience with supplier management of ODMs, or System integrators

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years’ experience inEngineering,Product/TechnicalProgramManagement,DataAnalysis, orProductDevelopment

• 6+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• Technical design, problem solving, debugging and communication skills

• Demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services

• Ability to deal with ambiguity, assess opportunities and develop principles to prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options, and drive issues to closure with a high bar on quality

• Proven ability to work and collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders to achieve results and impact

• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Executives, Management Team, etc.)

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 14, 2024.

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• Technical Program Management for new Cloud hardware development.  Drive the development, planning & execution of a holistic cross functional product development and/or launch strategy.  Provides technical leadership andidentifytechnical risks.
• Collaborate with internal and external technology development partners to form a cohesive development plan.
• Have an in-depth understanding of the product technical requirements, milestones,deliverablesand interdependencies forestablishingan accurateand effective project infrastructure.  Leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieveobjectivesthrough a cross functional team.
• Responsible for effective communication and escalation of risks and dependencies while ensuringtimelydecisions are being made.
• Hold accountability for team and most or all portions of the work to deliver best in class architecture solutions
• Conducts risk management efforts in new product introduction, scenario planning and mitigation of risks, recovery from risks.
• Communicate to and regularly interact with management, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions
• Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process whereit’sneeded. Recognize the situations where each approach is mostappropriate.
• Ensure cross functional alignment: generating clarity, tracking towards development milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure development, launch, and deployments.
• Use program management tools and communication methods to ensurecommon understandingof program plan of record to stakeholders

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