Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Apr 7, 2027

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Above market

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$217,463 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

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About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 648 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 624 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Technical Program Manager

As a Principal Technical Program Manager on the One Fleet Platform team within Azure Core, you will lead programs to accelerate and scale the hardware fleet lifecycle. You will design tools, platforms, and processes while partnering with engineering, hardware, supply chain, operations, and security teams to define strategy and drive innovation. Your daily work involves providing strategic direction for technical solutions, identifying risks, and overseeing roadmaps to improve engineering velocity and time to market. You will champion the adoption of generative AI tools to streamline planning and feedback-loop synthesis. Key requirements include experience in engineering, technical program management, or data analysis, alongside a technical design understanding of hyper-scale cloud distributed systems, hardware, data centers, security, compute, networking, and storage platforms.

What does a Technical Program Manager earn?

Median $190350 from 263 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Provide strategic direction to cross-divisional teams to design technical solutions for the hardware fleet lifecycle.
  • Oversee teams in identifying project risks and proposing data-based mitigations.
  • Define success criteria and articulate return on investment for accelerating hardware time to market.
  • Champion the adoption of generative AI tools to streamline planning and engineering-system efficiency.
  • Secure executive support for company-wide initiatives while maintaining stakeholder trust.
  • Track project schedules and implementation to improve engineering velocity and time to market.
  • Collect performance metrics across departments to improve fleet reliability and efficiency.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (or equivalent).
  • 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (preferred).
  • Master’s degree in computer science or a related field (preferred).
  • 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects (preferred).
  • 6+ years of technical experience influencing technical roadmaps (preferred).
  • Technical design understanding of hyper-scale cloud distributed systems, hardware, data centers, security, compute, networking, and storage platforms (preferred).

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