Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!

CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide.

Cloud Manufacturing Operations and Fulfillment (CMOF) organization within CSCP manages business operations performance and supplies hardware to the data centers. Well-defined and executed supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

Within the CMOF organization, the Readiness Engineering & Sovereign (RE&S) organization plays a key role in the pre-dock readiness and First Footprint execution across GPU, Compute, Storage, as well as end-to-end Sovereign execution across CSCP. The role of Principal Program Manager will be responsible for driving strategic cross-functional transformations and business initiatives across the RE&S organization.

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. 

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be leveraging your experience in the domain to deliver cloud capacity to our customers. The primary focus will be on deployment strategies, process improvements, operational excellence and engineering solutions that enable us to scale with predictability.

Provide thought leadership for the end-to-end Readiness Engineering function to drive faster time to market across multiple resource types and capacity expansion scenarios.

Identify business and technology transformation opportunities to drive increased efficiency and predictability in readiness engineering.

Definition of multi- year operations maturity roadmaps enabled through related solution/engineering roadmaps and delivery commitments. Provide guidance when working with Software and Hardware Engineering to design and integrated readiness solutions to crucial technical needs for multiple feature areas

Partner with key organizations across Engineering, Planning, Sourcing and New Product Introduction (NPI) to drive end-to-end improvements.

Drive capacity delivery with focus on speed and predictability

Create, manage and govern key strategic partnerships across the Cloud business between supply chain management, data center teams and engineering teams to drive the necessary orchestration and integration.

Lead roadmap discussions and business reviews at operational and executive levels through presentations and effective communications.

Mentor talent in the organization and contribute to the growth of organizational capability. Participate in interviewing, developing and managing talent.

Embody our Culture  &  Values 

Qualifications

Requierd Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

     o OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.
• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.