Principal Group Program Manager

Microsoft

$137K — $267K *

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Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure Customer Experience Platform (CXP) team's mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work.

We are looking to hire a Principal Group Program Manager to join our team. We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers. We orchestrate deep engagements in areas like incident management, support, and enablement. We analyze and amplify those customer voices, both within our own team, and across the Cloud + AI team, bringing the customer connection to the Quality vision for Azure. We innovate ways to scale what we learn across our customer base . Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are, how we work, and what we enable our customers to achieve. We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically, work in ways that are best for them, and achieve their career goals. Azure Reliability team is a multidisciplinary engineering organization part of CXP dedicated to making, "Azure the safest and most reliable Cloud ".

Azure Site Reliability Engineering ( SRE ) teams strive to improve reliability fundamentals via software engineering operational improvement , preferring long-lasting platform improvements delivered as engineering projects over repetitive manual operations. We contribute to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge, and code, and prefer reuse over re-invention, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.

We are not looking for people who know it all, we are looking for people who want to learn it all. We value the input of people who aren't afraid to learn all the time and embrace mistakes as they continuously improve both our services and themselves . If you are excited by this type of challenge and you love to work in groups of people who are similarly excited: come join us!

Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud . You can help #AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed.

This role supports flexible work from home with occasional in - office meetings.

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:

  • Understanding of thedistributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
  • Shares and defines insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.
  • Expands end- to- end technical expertise in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products in order to drive continuous improvements
  • Contribute to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge, and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.
  • Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers
  • Supportongoing engagements with product engineering teams by participating intest maturity reviews, static analysisreviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
  • Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents


Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years people management experience.
  • 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-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/Additional Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
  • 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
  • 10+ years of experience with object-oriented programming languages, such as C#, Java, Python, or equivalent.
  • Proven ability to work effectively with large and complex codebases, including those exceeding millions of lines of code.
  • Understanding of modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, and caching.
Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 14, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

#AZCXP #AzRelJobs
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