Director of Information Systems and Technology

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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 a trusted experience 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 hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Hardware Engineering Services and Solutions 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 for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.  

 We are looking for Director of Information Systems and Technology to join the team. 

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

Technical Lead 

• Lead and manage a team to engineers and oversee the execution of product design of multiple or complex High-Performance computing, Information Technology, networking, storage, information security and related projects dedicated to Silicon and System development and validation. Coordinates across internal and external groups for future resource and project plans. 

• Champions and align cross-functional team efforts in support of project goals across the product lifecycle. Manages development of project methodology by defining the tools, flows, and methods to be used. Enables team to develop and use expertise with complex features/flows/protocols to identify critical paths and address them in product plans across all milestones for current project.  

• Scrutinizes plans and schedules for accuracy and recommends decisions on implementation schedules for project deliverables across products. Identifies potential resource issues, risks, mitigations, and proposes cross-organizational compromises. Monitors project progress/status across one or more project teams, anticipates potential challenges, and shares project progress details with key stakeholders as necessary.  

• Acts as an expert resource in specific technical areas and forward-looking technologies to multiple teams within and outside of their department on functional matters related to industry trends, competitor products, and advances in various engineering fields. Shares expert knowledge of deep technical areas across multiple domains within their team and across teams working on similar products. Communicates a strategic vision of technology and industry trends. 

• Influences the development and negotiation of custom contracts.<