Microsoft Principal Technical Program Manager 

United States, Washington 

867208898

We’re looking for people passionate about building highly performant and scalable platforms that can partner with engineering and product managers distilling down complexity to drive complex projects. This work is in large part about defining and evolving the technical foundation of Azure Virtual Machines and Networking. It requires technical experience and depth with complex projects, project management across cross-functional stakeholders, as well as strategic thinking and problem solving.

You will be part of a team that will manage division-wide initiatives encompassing the Azure Host and Azure Host Components management, optimizing for Azure application lifecycle, availability, reliability, and scale. The role will be central to key Azure division initiatives on customer experience and platform competitiveness, and you’ll drive some of the areas in a services platform with scale and availability targets that don’t exist in the industry today.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4+ years experience with communicating clear, organized program plans, status information, and collaborating in written and live forums to achieve results with large, complex sets of stakeholders.
• 6+ years of experience in all phases of hardware development (server, enterprise, consumer or other).

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 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, OR product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Experience working at a cloud-based company or in fields like telecom or networking.
  Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure concepts and design technique AND software development tools and techniques.

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 January 13, 2025.

• Translate product requirements into hardware requirements like security, quality, performance, features, schedule, and cost to develop hardware platforms.
• Partner with software and hardware teams to design complex technical solutions across feature areas and make data-driven recommendations based on identified risks.
• Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas for highly complex cross-functional projects while ensuring alignment across the business.
• Build a working knowledge of the Azure infrastructure to analyze design option impacts.