Senior Technical Program Manager

The Infrastructure Planning and Acquisition (IPA) organization is seeking a Senior Technical PM to join the Network Infrastructure Supply Planning team. This role is responsible for analyzing the global consumption of network infrastructure at a site and region level and creating supply signals for the planning teams to trigger the design of additional network infrastructure sites. In addition, as part of the NISP team, this person will be involved in the generation of the Network Long Range Plan financial reports and the overall Network Supply Plan reporting. The right candidate will drive clarity on the rate of consumption of network infrastructure and perform consolidation of the infrastructure plans into the long-range network planning report. This role will focus on:

• Combining the short-term demand signals with the long-range strategic network infrastructure plans to create a holistic network infrastructure supply plan
• Creating long range network planning reports that pull together all the various Global Network and Region Infrastructure plans and quantifying the costs in both terms of CAPEX and COGS
• Partner with master planning, finance, Azure engineering, and hardware/site services acquisition teams to drive strategic network analysis and executive decisions
• Represent and coordinate NISP business requirements to initiate or improve system automation in support of the network infrastructure strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Analysis of network infrastructure consumption rates and network demand inputs from all upstream stakeholders to create a Network Supply Plan to align with the Datacenter Supply Plan
• Run the process that monetizes the designs produced by infrastructure master planning based on datacenter and network supply plans and creates the financial network long range plan
• Develop and scale systematic processes for creating, maintaining, tracking, and reporting on infrastructure plans
• Team wide communications with stakeholders on progress
  Drive complex ambiguous cross-functional projects and processes

QualificationsRequired Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• 5+ years' experience in data and analysis required for decision making
• 5+ years' experience in a strategy, planning and decision-making environment
• 5+ years demonstrated experience leading a business-critical function
• 5+ years' experience working with large scale data networks in a technical capacity
• Proficiency in Data Analytics tooling such as PowerBI, Excel Data Analytics, SQL, Python, R, or equivalent tools

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to drive planning, and build buy-in and support
• Knowledge of Microsoft's regional network and datacenter architectures
• Experience in network capacity planning with an emphasis on executive reporting
• Experience in long range planning of cloud specific infrastructure
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with a growth mindset, humility, dependability, and attention to detail
• Experience working with hardware or datacenter telemetry and monitoring systems and datasets
• Master's Degree in data analytics field

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
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