To delight customers in a Cloud First world, Microsoft delivers highly available online services with cutting edge features and innovative functionality. Quality of service (QoS) is paramount as we continue to make deep investment in Microsoft Azure and the expanding customer base who rely on our services to run their diverse businesses. Availability, reliability, and performance are all key differentiators that customers demand and expect in cloud services when choosing a provider. We are looking for an experienced and passionate Principal Program Manager with experience in prioritizing and leading complex programs across multiple organizations, based on strategic intent and change-management considerations. A ccurate Inventory is the foundation of nearly all operational data insights work. The insights produced by the Fleet Inventory system will enable Microsoft to meet critical business requirements (Security, Compliance, Capacity planning, to name a few) and will be critical to the
Our Principal Program Managers possess leadership and management skills, process expertise, and technical aptitude. They have hands-on project management experience and enjoy deeply understanding customer requirements, writing technical specs, creating roadmaps, and tracking progress, with easy to consume KPIs and metrics, against the project schedule throughout the entire product lifecycle. They orchestrate plan completion across disciplines and stakeholders, and negotiates trade-offs. Lead by example the documentation and delivers best practices for use across Areas. Utilize metrics and data
Basic Qualifications o Delivered multiple large scale projects on time and in budget o Established and lead new programs from inception to adoption o 5+ years of experience managing Program Managers Preferred Qualifications: o E xperience working with Data Processing pipeline technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, SQL/no-SQL o Experience in shipping production quality scalable software services with 24/7 availability requirements and/or Big Data ingestion and processing pipelines o Experience managing downstream and upstream partner relationships where requirements are not always clear and sometime