Principal Hardware Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsofts cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time in 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 seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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• Lead a virtual team of functional leads including members from hardware and software engineering sourcing supply chain networking and datacenter operations for documenting a clear Plan-of-Record (POR) for the new product development and leading the project team to meet stated milestones

• Technical Program Management for new Cloud hardware development. Drive the development planning & execution of a holistic cross functional product development and/or launch strategy. Provides technical leadership and identify technical risks.

• Collaborate with internal and external technology development partners to form a cohesive development plan.

• Have an in-depth understanding of the product technical requirements milestones deliverables and interdependencies for establishing an accurate and effective project infrastructure. Leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.

• Responsible for effective communication and escalation of risks and dependencies while ensuring timely decisions are being made.

• Hold accountability for team and most or all portions of the work to deliver best in class architecture solutions

• Conducts risk management efforts in new product introduction scenario planning and mitigation of risks recovery from risks.

• Communicate to and regularly interact with senior management highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions

• Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value and design process where its needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate.

• Ensure cross functional alignment: generating clarity tracking towards development milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure development launch and deployments.

• Use program management tools and communication methods to ensure common understanding of program plan of record to stakeholders

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree AND 6 years experience in engineering product/technical program management data analysis or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 3 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree AND 12 years experience engineering product/technical program management data analysis or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 8 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).
• Excellent technical design problem solving debugging and communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services
• Ability to deal with ambiguity assess opportunities and develop principles to prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options and drive issues to closure with a high bar onquality
• Proven ability to work and collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders to achieve results andimpact
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives Management Team etc.)
• Ability to partner closely with cross-functional teams to define prioritize and implement features infrastructure processes and workflows.
• Ability to create and operationalize processes to transform the effectiveness of the organizationwith respect to meeting business goals. Coach enable and grow Program Managerswithin the team and our partners.
• Can align key stakeholders and manage projects through milestones to completion on schedule and inbudget

Other Requirements:

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.