Are you an experienced technical program manager with a proven track record of solving complex problems? Are you excited about the potential for significant learning, working with cross-functional teams and improving products and customer experience? If so, we have an exceptional opportunity for you to join our team.

Azure Core is a Microsoft team with a vision to deliver world-class cloud infrastructure that powers the world's workloads. The Azure Core team organization spans software development, program management and product management, and delivers the array of capabilities that serve as the foundation for customers’ cloud experiences. The mission of Azure Core Engineering Systems team is to create high quality engineering systems and actionable insights that radically improve how Azure Core services are built, validated, deployed, and experienced by customers. This team focuses on modernizing engineering systems, on driving quality standard within Azure, and leveraging distributed systems to revolutionize the reliability of Azure.

As a Technical Program Manager II in Azure Core, you'll play an important role in driving adoption of resiliency across many products, validate with innovative engineering solutions while overcoming complex challenges. If you thrive on deep technical engagement and synthesize complex interdependencies into simple and easy to use systems, this role may be for you. This role offers the potential for significant learning opportunities, as you collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders to achieve success. 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. Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.

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

• You will work with Software and Hardware Engineering to design technical solutions. You’ll also identify risks and propose data-based mitigations.

• You’ll define success criteria as you collaborate with others to implement features for cross-functional projects. You’ll coordinate and ensure alignment across teams.

• With minimal supervision, you will help deliver on roadmap for feature groups, track project schedules, develop staging and implementation, and stay updated with governance programs.

• You will drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and partnering with other teams to collect performance metrics. You’ll also contribute to customer support and participate in direct customer engagements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.

• OR equivalent experience.

• Proficient in software development and software engineering principles.

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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• Architecture skills in distributed systems and a great appetite for learning the foundational technologies of the Azure platform, with experience writing code for product samples, proficiency with database technologies.

• Detail and results-oriented.

• Passion for execution with measurable results.

• Experience with cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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