Principal Technical Program Manager
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 25 days ago
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OverviewMicrosoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team is the team behind the Microsoft's Cloud infrastructure and is responsible for innovating, planning, designing, building, and operating one of the largest datacenter fleets in the world. We support product teams by providing the secure, compliant, cost efficient, and highly available global infrastructure that Microsoft's customers depend on. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. To keep up with rapidly changing customer and business demands, CO+I is looking for an experienced Principal Technical Program Manager who can lead complex changes to our global infrastructure in partnership with business and engineering stakeholders. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, possess a keen attention to detail, comfortable working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and desire to help shape the overall business. You will lead multiple simultaneous large-scale initiatives with a balance of technical leadership and effective business judgement. If you enjoy solving complex problems and driving impact, the Principal Technical Program Management role may be what you are looking for.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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesLead delivery of strategic initiatives within the Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) organization and across the Cloud and AI (C+AI) division, leveraging results-oriented, metrics-driven programmatic approach.Develop and maintain a long-term program roadmap, mitigating risks including technology shifts, industry or market constraints, and cost/pricing pressures.Guide teams through the development of problem statements, frameworks and methodologies to address crucial business, customer or market opportunities.Orchestrate efforts to define and implement recommended solutions on large cross-functional projects with internal teams and external partners, holding teams accountable to achieve desired outcomes throughout the program lifecycle (e.g., quality, compliance, security, safety, sustainability, time-to-market). Advance CO+I's program management (PM) capability by evaluating, improving, encouraging, and applying PM best practices across the organization.Drive simplification and automation to evolve processes, services, and solutions, to increase agility and efficiencies while lowering costs.Develop and coach a world-class program management team that successfully delivers complex, impactful, visible infrastructure projects and programsEmbody our culture and values.

 

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