Technical Program Manager II

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Are you a quality-driven, curious problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys working within a collaborative global team? The Azure One Fleet Platform (OFP) team is on a mission to accelerate the delivery of AI and new cloud capacity—globally, at scale—with speed and safety, keeping quality at the heart of everything we do. We ensure day-one build and launch excellence for Azure across new clouds, regions, and availability zones. Our culture is rooted in a growth mindset, a fail-fast approach, a bias for action, and a strong sense of empowerment—all of which drive our commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.

As a Technical Program Manager II on the Azure One Fleet Platform team, you will lead cross-functional work-streams across multiple product lines to enhance launch quality, uphold customer commitments, and improve service health for all capacity expansion initiatives. You will define and track semester objectives and key results (OKRs) and success metrics, leveraging systemic data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor progress and ensure operational readiness.

Your role will involve close collaboration with engineering, operations, and customer-facing teams across Azure and within C+AI organization to address complex infra and service health and quality challenges. You’ll communicate program status, risks, and mitigation plans effectively across stakeholders. Additionally, you will drive continuous improvement in infrastructure automation, author technical specifications for complex business problems requiring engineering alignment and establish or support processes that reduce manual toil. You’ll also play a key role in incident management to ensure compliance, operational excellence, and timely launch readiness of new Azure Clouds, Regions, and Availability Zones.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ 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.
• 1+ year(s) proficiency in writing complex Structured Query Language (SQL) queries and using data to drive prioritization and track progress.
• 1+ year(s) of demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
• 1+ year(s) of experience translating customer requirements and scenarios into product features, including authoring software specifications with a focus on user experience.

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 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects in a fast-paced environment.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• 1+ year(s) of proficiency with data analytics and related technologies, including Kusto (Azure Data Explorer), SQL, ETL technologies, machine learning (ML), and PowerBI.
• 1+ year(s) of proven ability to lead through ambiguity while partnering across organizations.

Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 19, 2025.

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