The Core Commerce Platform (CCP) team enables one of Microsoft's most business critical needs: electronic monetization of products and services. CCP powers all of Microsoft's key businesses - Azure, Office 365, XBOX, Bing Ads, a Windows App Store, to name just a few. Whatever the business Microsoft is in, monetization is a critical part. With a global presence in over 240 markets, close to 150 million transactions a day, and approximately a half billion dollars of revenue processed per month, CCP services need to be true internet scale and have state of the art availability, reliability and responsiveness. CCP is in continuous agile evolution, through a services-oriented engineering model, in which the overall solution consists of well integrated but loosely coupled and independent services. Our solutions support contract management, pricing, ordering, fulfillment, benefits and ecommerce across Microsoft's Volume Licensing, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing), and Microsoft Business
This ideal candidate should have extensive experience delivering and coordinating large enterprise-scale projects using software engineering best practices such as project scheduling, scenario and requirement definition, functional design, resourcing, issue/risk management, cross-division coordination and project and organization change management. In addition, this position requires an individual comfortable serving as the overall advocate for solution design and a leader of the program management discipline.
Required Qualifications: 5+ years of proven Technical Program/Product Management experience in large scale content release and distribution services 3+ years of Release Management and Build/Deploy experience or comparable skills/experience Strong analytical skills and experience in using data to drive continuous improvement for our customers Fluency in using VSO or other work tracking and bug management systems Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to an exec audience Preferred Qualifications: BA/BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience- Expertise in