Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation team powers the company's global cloud infrastructure and online products and services. The Senior Technical Program Manager will lead complex datacenter portfolio programs, drive efficient and on-schedule delivery, and partner with engineering, construction, networking, finance, operations, and other teams to improve processes, reporting, and execution.
Responsibilities
- Differentiate Microsoft data center delivery to create a competitive advantage by applying project and program management expertise
- Drive business results through a regimented focus on key performance indicators and business goals, promoting clarity and motivation to the project team to execute on time, under budget, while delivering high quality results with zero rework
- Leverage technical acumen in mechanical/electrical systems, structures, and networking infrastructure to facilitate engineering problem solving
- Manage cross functional initiatives, focusing on cross-organizational efficiencies and decision making that enable scale through streamlined rhythm of business, tools and processes
- Use experience and expertise to improve and/or deploy templates, automation, and processes
- Design and drive implementation of reporting by interfacing with business, engineering, finance, operations, and systems teams to provide actionable insights
- Deliver on ambiguous projects with multiple stakeholders, unclear requirements, and incomplete data
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Skills
- * Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management, Data Analytics/Science AND 4+ years experience in planning, project management, execution, and stakeholder alignment across large-scale complex organizations + OR equivalent experience
- * 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- * Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management, Data Analytics/Science AND 8+ years experience in planning, project management, execution, and analytics across large-scale complex organizations OR equivalent experience. + OR equivalent experience
- * 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- * Demonstrates deep subject matter expertise on key functional areas of engineering, procurement, construction, mechanical, electrical, networking, and building automation systems
- * Expertise working with large-scale data sets and analytics tools (e.g. PowerBI, PowerApps) to derive insights and make process improvements
- * Comfortable working at the Executive level within a highly matrixed organization
- * Experience driving execution with hyper-scale cloud engineering groups
- * Technical program management experience managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, people, risk, and communications
- * Demonstrates leadership skills and experience working with large, diverse teams
- * Understanding of business and financial objectives and plans accordingly
- * Demonstrates technical excellence in learning and applying successful strategies and implementing improvements to engineering methods and quality practices across the data center delivery portfolio
- * MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- * Experience managing large scale construction or network infrastructure projects
- * Understanding of contract language
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