Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. 

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, at high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking to hire a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our team who has a passion for customer focused solutions, insight, and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. 

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

• Lead and be accountable for Compute Fleet out of service capacity 

• Identify top issues and provide committed execution plan.  

• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables, and managing the project timeline, budget, and resources. 

• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and status reports, and communicate project status to stakeholders and senior management. 

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technical teams to identify customer requirements, risks, and dependencies. 

• Collaborate with hardware, firmware and software teams to architect and build highly scalable and reliable solutions for fleet uptime initiatives. 

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. 

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Minimum Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ year’s experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 3+ year’s experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. 
• 3+ years of experience in SQL/Kusto and have experience building data visualizations/metrics tracking using an application such as Power BI
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