Principal Program Manager

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware 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 trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. The SCHIE team is looking for a Principal Program Manager.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, the ability to deploy new offerings and Hardware infrastructure on time, at 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 Principal Program Managers with a passion for customer focused solutions, insight, and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and be accountable for the Portfolio management of HW Fleet Infrastructure through the entire lifecycle of the product.
• Leading cross-functional teams to develop and execute technical programs related to cloud computing, including infrastructure deployment, application migration, and fleet management.
• Defining project scope, goals, and deliverables, and managing the project timeline, budget, and resources.
• Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, and status reports, and communicating project status to stakeholders and senior management.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders and technical teams to identify project requirements, risks, and dependencies.
• Managing project budgets, including tracking expenses and forecasting future costs.
• Identify, drive execution and End to End (E2E) verification plans to make and meet business commitments.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware and software teams to architect and build highly scalable and reliable solutions for fleet uptime initiatives.
• Drive fleet management governance best practices including phase gate checklists, waterfall charts, fleet KPIs and forecasting
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment
• Effectively communicate with partners and stakeholders for planning and progress on initiatives using data.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Technical background in cloud computing, modern server architecture, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)/SoC architecture

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

• Bachelor's required in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or another related field.
• 10+ years of experience of as a Program or Product manager or platform architect or validation architect or a lead system/chief engineer or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience in leading and developing a high-performance program management team that delivers results and impact.
• Capable of technical deep dives into platform design, verification flows, operating systems, networking, and storage.
• Customer engineering, portfolio management and validation experience
• Data analytical skills- Knowing how to use data based and analytical tools.
• Excellent communication skills using various forms of media.
• Experience in managing people resources and budget.
• Able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving Environment.
• Individual effectiveness skills such as discipline, time management, decision making, planning, and organizing work, summarizing results through technical reports
• Self-driven, self-motivated individual must be able work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment and across the team of engineers.

Technical Program Management IC5 - 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.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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