Senior Technical Program Manager - Data and Business Insights

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

The Network Infrastructure Deployment (NID) team delivers the hyper-scale, low latency, high reliability network connecting customers around the globe to the rapidly growing Microsoft Cloud. As part of the Cloud and Enterprise organization, we support the needs of more than 200 Microsoft online services, including Bing, Office 365, SharePoint, Skype, OneDrive and several hundred thousand customers using Azure to host and run their Cloud Services in over 200 datacenters, running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world. Our customers and partners rely on our commitment, follow through and continuous improvement to achieve their goals.

As the Senior Technical Program Manager, Data and Business Insights in NID, you are experienced and comfortable in providing insightful business analytics and data aggregation solutions.  The candidate will need to be able to apply a breadth of tools that aggregate information from multiple data sources to create a complete business view. You will cultivate and create new business insights that support a growing business and result in business optimization. If you are detailed-oriented and an effective collaborator who thrives on driving impact and enabling others, then this role is for you.

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

• Design, build and deliver solutions that transform raw data into actionable information and support on-going operational usage
• Collaborate with our business partners to understand objectives, identify opportunities, and prioritize projects in order to deliver maximum business impact and return on investment
• Educate customers on how to leverage data as an asset for their function/business
• Drive data standards
• Ensure delivered solutions are stable, supportable, extensible, and trusted by our business partners

Other

• Embody our Culture  &  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 experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Demonstrated track record of creating innovative and relevant data aggregation solutions that enable business process
• Experience creating data visualizations and modeling using technologies like T-SQL, Power BI (DAX and M Query), Excel, KQL, Azure (ADF), Python, R, C#, AngularJS, JavaScript

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:

• Ability to be a “thought partner” with business process owners to understand their needs, then guide them on solutions
• Applied knowledge of Data Science/Machine learning techniques
• Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity and put forward creative