Senior Technical Program Manager

Do you want to help us revolutionize how Microsoft measures, monitors, and manages its business portfolio? Do you want to help us design and build the next generation of cutting-edge user experiences & advanced analytics platforms using the latest technology stack?

If so, we have a great opportunity for you as a Senior Technical Program Manager in the Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) global organization. In FD&E, we build solutions at scale that enable Microsoft to run its business more efficiently and more effectively through trusted, connected, and compliant solutions. We operate within the business and have trusted delivery partnerships across Engineering Groups, Finance, Sales, and Marketing. Our products influence data-driven decision making across a vast array of users and audiences, ranging from the company’s Senior Leadership Team to front-line sellers working with our customers. We pride ourselves on having a culture of customer centricity, innovation, agility, transparency, and flexibility. We are always eager to hear new ideas and promote out of the box thinking when addressing complex process, architecture, or technology challenges.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager in the Field Revenue Engineering Insights team, you will identify the needs of our stakeholders through close collaboration with business enablement and Finance. You will translate the needs into technical requirements, and partner with data engineers to define capabilities and design solutions that will help our stakeholders make data-driven decisions. This role will accelerate your career growth by enabling you to develop deep technical skills in program management and leading-edge BI technologies, to hone your business and financial acumen, and to become adept at solving tough problems like meeting customer needs while addressing engineering priorities like long-term sustainability of the systems we build. This team and role embraces hybrid work.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Creates relationships to drive orchestration and integration efforts for the development and implementation process of multiple feature areas (e.g., product, services) for large and complex cross functional projects with internal teams and external partners. Collaborates and coordinates across organizations to ensure alignment on product management and release, including tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements as feasible.
• Defines the program(s) goals and prioritization for the multiple feature areas they own. Translates the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables based on data-focused analysis. Engages in active risk management (proactive and reactive) to identify risks and propose mitigations for risks using data (e.g., telemetry, usage, net satisfaction, customer satisfaction).
• Partners with the Finance and engineering teams to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for multiple feature areas. Understands the value proposition for the multiple feature areas and answers technical questions on the multiple feature areas they own.
• Collaborates with others to track, coordinate, and communicate end-to-end project schedules (e.g., epics, sprint/semester plans, milestones, timelines, releases) for multiple feature areas. Works with others to establish and monitor processes, and helps hold stakeholders accountable for following the established schedule and processes. Helps track and manage dependencies to enable cohesive, connected user scenarios, and to identify potential risk areas and escalate appropriately. Makes adjustments or course corrections when projects are not aligned to schedules or goals.
• Validates use-case and scenario outcomes, and performance targets that are being achieved. Drives continuous quality improvements of the delivery. Writes readable and extensible test cases from scratch to test code and improve quality.
• Acts as a technical advisor to educate and evangelize the group of feature/feature areas (e.g., product, service) they work on with customers via meetings, presentations, and other forums. Participates in direct custom