Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the organization that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180 million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.

The Datacenter Integration Services (DCIS) team is part of CO+I. The DCIS vision is to ensure Microsoft can deploy and operate cloud infrastructure for any offering, at any time, in any location, at any scale. DCIS is a core team that is integral to the planning, development, deployment, and intelligent operations of innovative technologies and offerings such as immersion cooling, the fastest public cloud supercomputers and for customers running their mission critical workloads or providing unique AI offerings such as Azure OpenAI service. The DCIS leadership team deeply believes in Microsoft’s core values of Respect, Integrity & Accountability and each team member lives by Microsoft’s leadership principles to Create Clarity, Generate Energy & Deliver Success. 

The DCIS Strategy, Automation, Data, and Engineering team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager who has a passion for Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering-focused solutions that delight customers and drive deep impact with business partners. You will partner closely with a breadth of teams across the datacenter space, using your technical, leadership, and communication skills to build and mature the capabilities of our organization. The candidate will have technical depth and breadth, thrives in a globally distributed team environment, has the passion and capability to quickly learn new technologies, and has the ability to speak effectively for both technical and business users as a liaison between teams.

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.

• This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.
• Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.
• This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and support internal prototypes integrating Large Language Models (LLM) and software-centric solutions.
• Work with and across teams to plan for scale-up of prototypes to a production-ready state with handoff plans
• Develop long-term strategic roadmaps and feature sets aligned to business, customer and stakeholder needs
• Create new and support existing solutions and evangelize adoption across and outside the organization
• Integrate and collaborate with our partner business and technical teams to work on v-next versions of AI and software driven systems
• Drive impact using in-house solutions
• Embody our Culture  &  Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years' experience in engineering, product/technical program management, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years' experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4+ years' experience prototyping solutions using a programming language such as Python, Go, C#, or equivalent
• 4+ years managing work using an agile framework and ticketing system such as Azure DevOps, Atlassian Jira, or similar
• 1+ year of