Principal Technical Program Manager

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Product Management • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Principal Technical Program Manager role within Microsoft's SCHIE team focuses on optimizing cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include leading virtual teams across engineering, sourcing, and operations to document a Plan-of-Record (POR) for new product development, managing cross-functional projects, collaborating with internal/external partners, and ensuring timely decision-making. The role requires strong technical leadership, risk management, and communication skills, particularly with senior management. The successful candidate will drive the development, planning, and execution of a holistic product development and launch strategy, ensuring alignment across functional teams and timely delivery of new data center infrastructure.
Must have:
  • Lead cross-functional teams
  • Develop and execute project plans
  • Manage risks and dependencies
  • Strong communication skills
  • Technical expertise in cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with product development lifecycle
Good to have:
  • Data analysis experience
  • Supplier management experience
  • Experience with ODMs, SIs, and IHVs
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

Overview

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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 a Principal Technical Program Manager to join the team.

 

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.

 

 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years’ experience in Engineering, Product / Technical Program Management or Product Development
    • OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and / or cross-team projects.

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:

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years’ experience in Engineering, Product/Technical Program Management, Data Analysis, or Product Development
  • 6+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
  • Proficient technical design, problem solving, debugging and communication skills 
  • Demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services 
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity, assess opportunities and develop principles to prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options, and drive issues to closure with a high bar on quality  
  • Proven ability to work and collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders to achieve results and impact 
  • Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, Management Team, etc.)
  • Ability to partner closely with cross-functional teams to define, prioritize, and implement features, infrastructure, processes, and workflows. 
  • Ability to create and operationalize processes to transform the effectiveness of the organization with respect to meeting business goals. Coach, enable and grow Program Managers within the team and our partners. 
  • Can align key stakeholders, and manage projects through milestones to completion on schedule and in budget 
  • Supplier management experience for ODMs, SIs, and IHVs

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 31, 2025.

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Lead a virtual team of functional leads including members from hardware and software engineering, sourcing, supply chain, networking and datacenter operations for documenting a Plan-of-Record (POR) for the new product development and leading the project team to meet stated milestones
  • Technical Program Management for new Cloud hardware development.  Drive the development, planning & execution of a holistic cross functional product development and/or launch strategy.  Provides technical leadership and identify technical risks.
  • Collaborate with internal and external technology development partners to form a cohesive development plan.
  • Have an in-depth understanding of the product technical requirements, milestones, deliverables and interdependencies for establishing an accurate and effective project infrastructure.  Leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.
  • Responsible for effective communication and escalation of risks and dependencies while ensuring timely decisions are being made.
  • Hold accountability for team and most or all portions of the work to deliver in class architecture solutions
  • Conducts risk management efforts in new product introduction, scenario planning and mitigation of risks, recovery from risks.
  • Communicate to and regularly interact with senior management, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions
  • Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process where it’s needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate.
  • Ensure cross functional alignment: generating clarity, tracking towards development milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure development, launch, and deployments.
  • Use program management tools and communication methods to ensure common understanding of program plan of record to stakeholders
  • Embody our and

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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