Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.
The Cloud Manufacturing Operations and Fulfillment (CMOF) team is looking for a passionate Technical Program Manager II to help it keep up with its customer demand by being part of its Sovereign Strategy & Operations (SS&O) team, which is responsible for ensuring that sellable capacity is available for Microsoft Sovereign customers for their workloads. This includes ensuring that the required infrastructure is deployed on time to meet customer demand while continuously improving our processes.
The candidate for this Technical Program Manager II role has a background in networking, servers, application development, and/or security as well as demonstrated expertise in communication. You will work with many leaders across the company to improve our processes and help us scale the Sovereign Cloud offerings across all engineering groups. This role will require a dynamic personality who can work successfully in a diverse environment that is filled with ambiguity.
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
• Lead virtual teams to deliver infrastructure predictably based on our customer needs.
• Create methods and processes to collect critical data about deployments, progress, and dependencies.
• Partner with the Engineering teams to identify automation opportunities that will increase the capability to deliver against critical milestones for deployments.
• Partner upstream with the Capacity Planning and our internal Capacity Management teams.
• Partner with Planning teams to understand the demand and challenges of deployments to anticipate and solve.
• Develop an understanding of hardware types being deployed and work with the supply chain organization to resolve issues.
• Partner with process and reporting teams to develop actionable dashboards that will help drive daily and weekly triage of blockers.
• Own metrics and analytics that show the performance against goals.
• Be proactive in identifying continuous improvement areas.
• Identify program and process improvements to help deliver better predictability across all cloud offerings.
• Provide Engineering teams with business capabilities/use cases/scenarios to articulate clear business requirements, aligned to our vision.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships and trusted partnerships across the Azure landscape.
Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Other Requirements:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
- Candidates must have an active TS and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ year data analysis skills leveraging T-SQL, Kusto, and/or PowerApps.
- Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills.
- Six Sigma certification.
Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 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 May 8, 2024
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.
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