Release Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.

The Fabric Release & Deployments team is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager (TPM) with a strong background in release management, operations, and program delivery to lead mission-critical initiatives supporting the Microsoft Fabric platform.

This role is ideal for individuals who combine technical program leadership, operational excellence, and a deep commitment to customer satisfaction. You will be responsible for driving complex programs such as Ready-to-Deploy quality initiatives, global cluster buildouts, and incident response readiness, all with a focus on delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable releases.

We are looking for candidates who are highly collaborative, data-driven, and automation-focused—with strong experience using AI tools and prompt engineering to improve processes and solve operational challenges.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

• Manages delivery success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Responsible for defining program and release criteria, driving release quality metrics and improvements.
• Directs team in defining the program(s) goals and prioritization for the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service) they own. Helps team translate the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables based on data insights.
• Leads team to identify opportunities and gaps in the implementation of feature/feature areas (e.g., product, service) including comparison of various quality and performance metrics to various solutions.
• Leads teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as quality and performance) of the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service)
• Leads teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service).
• Lead the team to own the engineer self- service experience and provides documentation (e.g., troubleshooting guidelines, best practices, blogs.
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