Sr. Technical Program Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the SCHIE Firmware Center of Excellence (FW CoE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a Sr. Technical Program Manager to join the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 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

• Experience with Datacenter Racks & BMC.
• BS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/EE or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience as a technical Program Manager or in a technical role with systems experience
• Knowledge of building low-level SW to run on HW e.g., Firmware, UEFI, BMC, BSP… etc.
• Experience in technical program management of complex cross-group, cross-business, cross-disciplinary projects
• Exceptional organization and project management skills, e.g., experience with SW/FW agile project management methodology, TFS, DevOps, JIRA or similar

Responsibilities

• As a senior technical PM, you will work with the engineering team, silicon partners and hardware teams to ensure firmware plans are incorporated in the execution plan.
• Work with our engineering team on new HW SKUs under development and sustaining programs, and ensure FW development, validation and roll out plan is full proof.
• Define and develop FW requirements for our hardware that powers Azure through active engagement with internal/external partners.
• Drive Engineering teams to address any security vulnerabilities by agile execution across sprints, backlogs, milestones, and lead continuous planning efforts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees