Microsoft Technical Program Manager - Data Systems 

Costa Rica 

527938035

You will work closely with stakeholders across Xbox and partner studios to ensure that our commerce tools provide necessary data points to help partners monitor and identify opportunities to expand their game’s reach. This role requires a candidate with a passion for driving partnership across teams to deliver great technology solutions, with a focus on ensuring a great customer experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Expertise in management of complex cross-group, cross-business, cross-disciplinary projects.
• Expertise building data-led solutions and pipelines.
• Understanding and experience working in data systems or near real-time data pipelines that drive business intelligence.
• Availability to partner with other engineering teams in different timezones.

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge and previous experience working in the gaming industry
• Experience as an engineer building highly scalable data products and pipelines.
• Experience with database query languages such as KQL and SQL.
• Understanding of cloud-based big data flows and system architecture utilizing Azure Data Explorer, CosmosDB, or equivalent tools.
• Experience working in game monetization and building business strategy around gaming products
• Proven ability to develop and manage relationships with customers and partners
• Demonstrated experience working with other product managers, software engineers, and product marketing teams throughout the product development lifecycle to deliver best-in-class customer experiences.

• Collaborate with internal and external game studios, internal stakeholders and engineering teams to understand customer requirements, issues and priorities.
• Design and lead engineering specifications for flexible and resilient data pipelines for internal and external customers from ingestion through to distribution.
• Navigate and partner with cross-org engineering teams to drive clarity and prioritize outcomes that align to product direction and strategy.
• Own compliance requirements and champion for customer privacy considerations.
• Define success criteria and performance metrics to track and report on project execution.
• Maintain and prioritize and engineering backlog and provide program level status to gaming leadership.
• Ensure delivered solutions are stable, supportable, extensible, and trusted by our business partners.

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