Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Microsoft Fabric, the Azure Monitor team builds services that enable customers to monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate issues with their services through an increasingly agentic experience. Azure Monitor includes Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, Azure Managed Grafana, and more. Additionally, Azure Monitor is the platform upon which Microsoft Sentinel is built. We have a multi-billion dollar business that is growing rapidly, and we run some of the world’s highest scale observability services both for Microsoft internally and for our external customers, processing over 1.5 Exabytes of logs daily and tracking over 100 billion active metrics. We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead key investments across Azure Monitor's data collection, telemetry pipeline, and configuration management platforms. In this role, you will own strategic product areas that enable customers to onboard, configure, govern, route, and manage monitoring data across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. You will combine deep customer empathy with technical experience to drive platform capabilities that simplify observability adoption, improve operational efficiency, and enable reliable telemetry collection at cloud scale. This role requires leadership across multiple engineering teams and the ability to influence architecture, roadmap priorities, and customer experience across the Azure Monitor ecosystem.

Requirements

• 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. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• 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).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategy and multi-year roadmap for Azure Monitor’s data collection, telemetry pipeline, and configuration management platforms.
• Translate customer needs, product telemetry, support insights, and market trends into prioritized investments and measurable product outcomes.
• Shape platform architecture and product requirements in partnership with engineering, balancing reliability, scale, security, governance, performance, and cost.
• Lead cross-team initiatives that simplify how customers onboard, configure, collect, route, and govern telemetry across Azure, hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments.
• Drive alignment and execution across engineering, design, program management, support, field, and dependent Azure product teams.
• Engage strategic customers and partners to validate direction, resolve complex adoption challenges, and convert recurring needs into scalable platform capabilities.
• Define and monitor success measures for adoption, configuration health, collection reliability, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
• Embody our culture and values.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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
• This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior