Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

16h

About The Position

Do you want to learn Azure Cloud business and be a part of a fast-growing organization? 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. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, 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 deliver trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Technical Program Manager with a solid background with a track record in driving software platform initiatives and strategy for an organization. You will be involved with all phases of product development from design through bring-up, development, and release. We are aspiring to get agile where you will play a key role in designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying innovative features. You will help us define and develop tactical and strategic solutions to meet the immediate and long-term needs of our services that form a critical part of Azure infrastructure. You will communicate Microsoft Azure requirements to our external partners, as well as coordinate collaborative efforts with various internal Azure Engineering teams. You have excellent communication skills to drive programs with multiple internal/external partners teams. You have the strong desire and ability to understand customer needs and a willingness to develop holistic and data-driven approaches to product solutions that delight and exceed their expectations. You have a very solid understanding of hardware, firmware, HW/SW quality, the ability to apply these fundamentals to ‘cloud-readiness’, and most importantly - an unyielding passion for creating products that customers will fall in love with.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record translating the needs of a highly diverse set of AI & machine learning use cases into a differentiated set of supercomputing-class systems, solutions, and experiences, and apply them to Azure’s underlying infrastructure systems. You will provide overarching project directions to the engineering teams.
At Microsoft, we immensely value culture, mentorship, and act as One Team. This is an opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and grow your existing project/program management experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ 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).
• Experience in GPU development /platform enablement/ firmware development.
• Experience in technical program management of complex cross-group, cross-business, cross-disciplinary projects
• Experience and skills in C/C++ and OS internals
• Experience in collaborating with internal and external partners to understand their requirements and translating them into solutions
• Experience in low-level software running on hardware e.g., Firmware, UEFI, BMC, BSP
• Proven ability to synthesize and communicate solutions to complex technical problems and resolve dependencies.
• Exceptional organization and project management skills, e.g., experience with SW/FW agile project management methodology, TFS, DevOps, JIRA or similar
• 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.

Responsibilities

• driving Software/Firmware initiatives and strategy for an organization
• define and develop firmware requirements for our innovative hardware solutions that powers Azure
• be the liaison to our external partners (Silicon Vendors, ODM, OEM, etc.), to drive Microsoft Azure requirement to our partners and can coordinate development efforts with different Azure Engineering teams
• help create a long-term roadmap for Azure SCHIE firmware
• responsible for bringing in systematic SW/FW development practice to the team
• understand customer needs and a willingness to develop holistic approaches to product solutions that delight our customers and exceed their expectations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level