Principal TPM Manager

Are you passionate about solving deep technical problems with tough business requirements and direct customer impact? Do you want to work in a fast-paced platform cloud team, shipping updates on a weekly basis? Do you want to design and build a massive-scale, worldwide, highly available, customer-focused application and server platform? Then, this may be the place for you…The Microsoft Azure™ Core team builds the core infrastructure and application programming interfaces (APIs) that power the Microsoft Azure platform. The team delivers the software to manage compute clusters at the scale of 1,000s of physical host servers and 100,000s of virtual machines (VMs), REST (Representational State Transfer) interfaces to deploy and manage virtual machines, and the developer and information technology professional (ITPro) experiences for the Azure Core platform.We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to help drive efforts in delivering quality experiences to our Azure users. We are part of the core Azure Compute team that focuses on system fundamentals, ensuring that our internal and external user expectations are met and exceeded in terms of performance, reliability, and scale. If you are a Principal Technical Program Manager with managerial experience and are passionate about delivering exceptional quality-first experiences, we have an opportunity for you to make a significant impact driving improvements within Azure Compute. Come be part of our mission-critical story within Azure Compute!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

• Formulate a vision, value proposition, and roadmap for improvements and enhancements to the Azure Core Platform.
• Guide the design and direction of compute components, helping to ensure scalability and global reach.
• Drive customer-focused engineering by planning and designing improvements based on customer feedback.
• Define, drive, prioritize, and specify functional scenarios for management platform features.
• Provide thought leadership to the development team by building key functionality, working with customers to gather feedback, and iterating to improve.
• Partner across business and engineering teams to develop capabilities that drive success for the broader Azure ecosystem.
• As a People Manager, lead a team of program and product managers who will be part of this team. Develop the team’s capabilities and delegate responsibilities appropriately. Enable individual contributors to succeed by coaching and mentoring them.
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• OR equivalent experience
• 6+ years of software industry experience, with demonstrated collaboration and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation - to peers and executives).
• 5+ years of proficiency as a program or product manager with at least 2+ years as people manager.
• 1+ years(s) of understanding and history developing distributed and/or cloud-based systems.
• 1+ year(s) of distributed systems and Azure Cloud Systems (or GCP/AWS or equivalent) experience.
  

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.
  

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