Senior Technical Program Manager - FDE
About The Position
As a Senior Technical Program Manager on Microsoft’s Frontier Company Engineering team, you will embed with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs and own the customer journey from problem definition through co-engineering delivery to measurable business outcomes. You will work with small, multidisciplinary teams of engineers, data scientists, designers, and customer engineers to turn ambiguous challenges into production-ready AI, cloud, and data solutions. The role uses AI-assisted engineering throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate work from customer needs to production while maintaining security, quality, and trust. You will work fluently in engineering tools such as VS Code, GitHub, and AI agents for planning, documentation, and program leadership, applying domain expertise to validate AI-generated work. With high autonomy, you will make decisions amid incomplete information, manage risks, provide data-driven recommendations, and help develop reusable solution patterns, open-source assets, and engineering playbooks that can benefit other engagements. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The company emphasizes a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and an inclusive culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the job duties.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1+ year of experience reading and/or writing code, such as for sample documentation or product demos.
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
Responsibilities
- Embed with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs, aligning business needs with engineering solutions across AI, cloud, and data.
- Own the customer journey end-to-end, from problem definition through co-engineering delivery to measurable business outcomes.
- Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle to accelerate requirements-to-specs, generate engineering artifacts from customer context, and move value from business need to production.
- Use engineering tools such as VS Code, GitHub, and AI agents for planning, documentation, and technical program leadership; validate AI-generated outputs with domain expertise.
- Navigate ambiguity with self-direction and ownership; make technical and program decisions with incomplete information, identify opportunities, manage risks, and provide data-driven recommendations.
- Develop reusable solution patterns, open-source assets, and engineering playbooks, and contribute knowledge and best practices to the broader engineering community.
- Partner with multidisciplinary engineering teams and customer engineers to evaluate, design, and deliver AI-powered cloud solutions.
- Give stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks and tradeoffs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
