Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to help deliver and support the future of cloud-based Azure Storage. The role partners with strategic customers on storage needs for AI and data analytics workloads, provides architectural guidance, manages complex storage initiatives, and influences technical strategy through customer feedback and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Engage directly with our largest and most complex AI-focused customers to provide architectural guidance to customers implementing and using Azure Blob Storage for their high-performance computing (HPC) and machine learning workloads
- Manage large, complex Azure storage technology initiatives, delivering critical solutions, significant improvements, new mechanisms, or deprecating systems or features that are no longer needed
- Understand the architecture of the Azure Storage systems you work with to develop and execute technical strategies that drive service growth
- Capture and advocate for customer feedback to influence Azure Storage technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions
- Routinely and efficiently deliver the right things by defining clear goals and objectives and driving to crisp decisions and outcomes by communicating effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences
- Proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your team and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks. Increase the productivity and effectiveness of the teams you work with by reducing or removing the complexity and numbers of inefficient operational tasks, processes and procedures
Skills
- * Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development + OR equivalent experience
- * 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- * Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
- + Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
- * Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development + OR equivalent experience
- * 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- * 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
- * 3+ years' experience with strategic customer engagement
- * 2+ years of experience in a technical role where you were responsible for managing or supporting the underlying systems of a product, service, or infrastructure
- + AI/ML workload patterns including training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- + Applying AI to engineering workflows and product architectures to identify transformational improvement and efficiency opportunities
- + Using AI-assisted diagnostics, automation, or operational workflows and familiarity with observability, telemetry, reliability engineering, and automated operations
- + Supporting high-concurrency architectures, low-latency services, and high-throughput systems, with expertise in service resiliency, performance troubleshooting, capacity management, and production operations
- + overseeing and coordinating large-scale projects related to any public cloud services
- + implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure on Azure
- * Excellent relationship-building skills and a proven track record of effective cross-team collaboration and influence across organizations without direct authority. A sense of ownership, detail orientation, follow-up, and collaboration skills with engineers, architects, product leaders, and executives
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