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Are you an experienced network professional looking for an opportunity to work on some of Azure’s biggest challenges? 

We are the Azure Core team, and we are looking for a Senior Manager Technical Program Management to join our team.

We are part of the Azure core engineering organization and consider great customer experiences critical to the overall success of Azure. Our team builds the Azure Network Platform and services like Azure Virtual Network, Azure VPN, Azure Firewall, Azure Private Link, and other customer facing, internal network and network security services.  We create, define, and lead product offerings that set our customers up for success, empower them to solve problems, and ensure they have a phenomenal experience. 

We are looking for a Senior technical program manager to lead a team of Technical Program Managers to design and develop network platform services for Azure core platform. You will be You will use your knowledge of networking to devise solutions that fulfil our customer promises. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for coming up with vision, strategy, roadmap and organizational alignment for platform through research, connecting with other product teams, customers, and partners.

• You will use your leadership, influence and organizational skills to communicate requirements and drive implementation across the many teams.

• You will be engaging with engineering teams across Azure Core to align on dependencies and co-innovation.

• You will measure and report on the success of the problem space through relevant metrics and KPIs

• You will be partnering with engineering to deliver impactful and innovative technologies.

• As people manager, coach, guide and manage your team to achieve success in business objectives as well as supporting team members towards their career goals.

• You will contribute to organizational alignment to Microsoft values and positive work culture.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

• 2+ years people management experience

• Deep knowledge of networking and application, host, platform concepts and implementation (For example, routing, firewalls, network design, SDN, SDWAN, tunnelling, NAT, encryption, protocols (TLS, SSH…), network monitoring, SNMP etc.)

• Experience with data analysis. Including Excel, Power Pivot, Power BI, Kusto (Azure Data Explorer), and SQL

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis,

• OR product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• Ability to concisely frame problems, conceptualize simple solutions, and make decisions based on data and metrics with the ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment, make quick decisions and understand the consequences.

• Sets and holds teams to high-quality deliverables with or without explicit authority.

• Demonstrated experience in gathering and transforming customer needs into an actionable product requirements definition. 

• Knowledge of regulatory / compliance requirements. (For example, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)

• Strong technical background or hands-on experience in network design & implementation

• Passionate about helping customers and identifying the solution that delivers the most impact to their business.

• Self-starter that thrives in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment with proven track record of delivering on commitments and thrives in team-based work, performs well in high-intensity environments, and is willing to roll up their sleeves to get things done for customers.  

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