Principal Program Manager

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?

Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.  

Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. 

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services.  This role is for a highly motivated Principal Program Manager with a background in hardware design and development processes.   You will be involved with all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and supply chain, and into high scale deployment.  You’ll work closely with our engineers and architects, and also our peer teams (including Azure Core, Azure Security, and SCHIE) to plan and deliver solutions into the fleet leveraging well-known processes we’ve used to deliver new capabilities into Azure. 

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

• Feature / Capabilities Planning: Understanding use cases for key Microsoft cloud services that require improved Security capabilities, and together with our architects mapping the services’ requirements to technical capabilities of underlying platform components.
• Hardware Planning – practices, processes, and methodologies. e. coalesce the team to successful milestone check-ins and results delivery throughout the Incubation / Innovation lifecycle. 
• Coordinating and preparing milestone reviews, customer/partner/vendor presentations, and other key meetings. Maintaining relationships with peers inside and outside the team to ensure solid cross-group collaboration and connection with the CSI organization. Cross-group collaboration is a must, as you’ll be the focal point for keeping engagements on-track with peer teams like Azure Compute, etc.
• Driving creation and monitoring of success criteria including performance, throughput, etc. and collaborating with our peer workload teams to monitor and ensure that the necessary metrics are deeply understood and available to help drive decision making.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

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 experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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

• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience, interest, and affinity with Compute architecture and hardware / software security technologies and attack mitigation strategies i.e. asymmetric cryptography, virtualization, containerization, threat model analysis, common exploits and attack vectors for Hyperscale / Cloud, etc. 
• Oral and written communication s