Technical Program Manager II

Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. Azure differentiates itself as the only hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud with a true hybrid story. Customers and analysts recognize Azure’s tremendous momentum which continues month over month. To help customers achieve their goals and host all their workloads on the cloud, Azure uses a globally available foundational platform with the scale of the largest of largest services. Workloads range from “new born-in-the-cloud” services to “traditional” applications migrated from physical datacenters. All the rich platform services and capabilities of Microsoft's commercial cloud are built on this platform.

Azure Core team at IDC (India Development Center) delivers mission-critical infrastructure and management capabilities to customers across the globe which cut across Compute, Storage, Networking and Management. We are defining, and ultimately delivering quality customer experiences and solutions that power the world’s workloads.

Are you an experienced professional looking for an opportunity to work on some of Azure’s biggest challenges?  We are the Azure Core team, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our team.

We are part of the Azure engineering organization and consider great customer experiences critical to the overall success of Azure. Our team builds the Azure Compute Platform and services like Azure Control Plane, Azure Node services, Azure Compute Platform, Azure VMs, and other customer facing compute and compute security services.  We create, define, and lead product offerings that set our customers up for success, empower them to solve problems, and ensure they have a phenomenal experience. 

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ year(s) of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional technical product management and/or software development experience.
  
• 2+ years of experience
  
  • in Cloud Fundamentals, Virtual Machines, Control Plane;
    
  • AND problem-solving and analytical skills, combined with a strategic orientation.

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• 4+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to concisely frame problems, conceptualize simple solutions, and make decisions based on data and metrics with the ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment, make quick decisions and understand the consequences.
  
• Experience with data analysis. Including Excel, Power Pivot, Power BI, Kusto (Azure Data Explorer), and SQL.
  
• Knowledge of regulatory / compliance requirements. (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).

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• Partner with Software and Hardware Engineering to design technical solutions across feature areas.
• Identify risks and propose data-based mitigations.
• Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing features for complex cross-functional projects.
• Coordinate and ensure alignment across organizations.
• Deliver on roadmap for multiple feature groups, track project schedules, develop staging and implementation plan, and manage governance programs.
• Drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and writing test cases from scratch.
• Lead teams to partner with other departments to collect performance metrics, drive customer support, and lead direct customer engagements.