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Azure Core team at IDC (India Development Center) delivers mission-critical infrastructure and management capabilities to customers across the globe which cut across Compute, Storage, Networking and Management. We are defining, and ultimately delivering quality customer experiences and solutions that power the world’s workloads.

Are you an experienced professional looking for an opportunity to work on some of Azure’s biggest challenges?  We are the Azure Core team, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our team.

We are part of the Azure engineering organization and consider great customer experiences critical to the overall success of Azure. Our team builds the Azure Compute Platform and services like Azure Control Plane, Azure Node services, Azure Compute Platform, Azure VMs, and other customer facing compute and compute security services.  We create, define, and lead product offerings that set our customers up for success, empower them to solve problems, and ensure they have a phenomenal experience. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• You will partner with Software and Hardware Engineering to design technical solutions across feature areas.

• You’ll also identify risks and propose data-based mitigations.

• You’ll define success criteria and create relationships for implementing features for complex cross-functional projects. You’ll coordinate and ensure alignment across organizations.

• You will deliver on roadmap for multiple feature groups, track project schedules, develop staging and implementation plan, and manage governance programs.

• You will drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and writing test cases from scratch. You’ll also lead teams to partner with other departments to collect performance metrics, drive customer support, and lead direct customer engagements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

• 4+ years of program management experience with overall 8+ years of experience where your primary responsibilities directly involved implementing, designing, or operating enterprise platform products, defining, developing, designing cloud platforms, services, or products.

• Hands on experience and knowledge of software platform designs and architecture, virtual machines, control plane software, SAAS products design, managing cross functional and cross-geo team projects

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.

Preferred Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in 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).

• Ability to concisely frame problems, conceptualize simple solutions, and make decisions based on data and metrics with the ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment, make quick decisions and understand the consequences.

• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills (verbal and written); Ability to clearly communicate business problems and complex technical issues to a broad audience with experience building strong working relationships with, collaborating with, and influencing diverse cross-functional and cross-geo teams (engineering, support, marketing, etc.). Drive change without authority across groups

• Experience with data analysis. Including Excel, Power Pivot, Power BI, Kusto (Azure Data Explorer), and SQL

• Demonstrated experience in gathering and transforming customer needs into an actionable product requirements definition.

• A deep knowledge of regulatory / compliance requirements. (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)

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