Senior Program Manager

Are you passionate about data and marketing? Do you want to be part of a team that is transforming the way Microsoft engages with its customers and prospects? Do you have the skills and experience to design and deliver data capabilities that enable data-driven marketing and sales across products and channels? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

The Data Engineering team is looking for a Senior Program Manager to join the team to guide the development and evolution of a coherent, organization-wide portfolio of data capabilities, enabling responsive, high-quality data for the business.

The Global Marketing Engines and Experiences (GMEE) Data Engineering team is on a mission to deliver connected data ecosystem, leveraging world-class Microsoft technology to enable scale, increase data agility, and unlock breakthrough insights. We build data platforms that power our analysts, data scientists, Machine Learning (ML) engineers and business users to discover insights and make decisions faster. We also enable the integration of our data platform with edge tools for sales and marketing teams that deliver personalized and relevant experiences to our customers and prospects.

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

• Contribute to the end-to-end data architecture and data modeling for the GMEE Data Platform to create leverage through connected data capabilities
• Own the data capability roadmap for assigned initiatives, engaging stakeholders across the organization and prioritizing areas of investment 
• Define technical data requirements based on business specifications and run initial data discovery, analysis and conceptual modelling
• Coordinate with cross-domain data owners to integrate, leverage and enable access to data and ensure data handling and security requirements are understood and met 
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, System Architects, Platform Engineers and Program Managers to implement successful solutions.
• Create data quality and monitoring models for key end to end data flows to ensure data reliability and issue visibility and responsiveness.
• Influence and negotiate with partner stakeholders for cross-team dependencies impacting roadmaps.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience with big data architectures and principles including distributed data mesh concepts, modeling/schema design, data lakes, metadata, lineage, acquisition and broad consumption patterns.
• Experience in data analysis.
• 2+ years experience in Python, and/or SQL, and/or similar technologies

Additional or Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development 
• OR equivalent experience. 
• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. 
• Experience self-managing across multiple concurrent tracks of work.
• Experience facilitating communication between technical and business stakeholders.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.