Principal Program Manager

Azure Reliability 's vision is to make it easy for everyone to create, consume, and manage planetary-scale, reliable cloud production services and infrastructure to achieve more. Azure Reliability is dedicated to making, " Azure the safest and most reliable Cloud ". We are an engineering organization working horizontally across Azure to systemically lift overall platform reliability to help our customer's experience of Azure as a whole. As a team, we bring together significant and complementary capabilities and to o ling across Risk Management, Incident Lifecycle, and Site Reliability Engineering in new ways to increase Azure platform reliability.
We are looking for a Technical Program Manager Leader who has experience leading TPMs working closely with Engineering teams running multi-cloud services with the emphasis on improving platform reliability through data driven insights . You will lead the creation and implementation of reliability improvement initiatives across Azure services. To be successful in this role, you must be data driven with the ability to create clarity and deliver outcomes per schedule across various engineering stakeholders.
As part of the role, you can Plan (create vision, strategy, success measures via OKRs), establish Accountability ( Identify all the teams who need to be part of the effort with specific owners and deliverables from each team and work with each team to ensure delivery), and Manage execution and communication cadence across engineering teams while proactively keeping appropriate stakeholders informed of progress, risks, and issues. If you enjoy driving large programs that will make a significant impact on the breadth of Azure, we'd like to talk with you.Responsibilities

• Drive a cohesive vision across teams, providing customer-centric input on priorities, communicating status and updates, while creating clarity on objectives to be delivered.
• Create, manage, and execute on reliability roadmap using established project, program, and process management methodologies.
• Create and improve the framework to deliver horizontal reliability initiatives.

• Influence various engineering roles from engineer to engineering leadership.
• Create and advocate the Story (the why) and are responsible for describing the value and promoting the work at the appropriate external and internal venues.
• Define what success looks like, how we measure it, and how we get there.
• Create an inclusive work environment where every team member can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and the team can deliver their best work as a result.

QualificationsQualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.
• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.
• 8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Strong knowledge of program management practices within and across software development services and models.
• Deep understanding of engineering practices followed by cloud services.
• Track record of problem solving and using pilot programs, prototypes, and growth hacking approaches.
• Solid Model, Coach, and Care demonstration in leadership role.
• Experience with implementing Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve and maintain reliability.
• Experience with Systems and Standards based engineering organizations.

Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.
Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate's primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
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