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The Senior Technical Program Manager joins the Azure Monitor team to lead critical investments across data collection, telemetry pipelines, and configuration management platforms. In this role, you will own strategic product areas focused on helping customers onboard, configure, govern, route, and manage monitoring data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will translate customer feedback and operational trends into prioritized roadmap investments while driving cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch. The role requires managing complex projects involving telemetry onboarding, routing, transformation, and lifecycle management to improve scalability and reliability. Key skills include technical program management, data analysis, and the ability to influence architecture and roadmap priorities. You will work within the Azure Monitor ecosystem, addressing observability challenges for high-scale services including Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Hosted Prometheus to simplify adoption and enhance overall operational efficiency.
What does a Technical Program Manager earn?
Median $190350 from 179 postings across 31 companies.
Own roadmap investments for telemetry onboarding, collection, routing, transformation, governance, and lifecycle management.
Translate customer feedback, telemetry insights, and competitive analysis into prioritized product investments.
Identify opportunities to reduce customer complexity while improving scalability and reliability of monitoring data.
Define measurable business outcomes and track progress against key success metrics.
Drive technical investments across the Azure Monitor telemetry collection ecosystem.
Engage directly with strategic customers to identify observability challenges and operational requirements.
Manage the delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives from initial concept through final launch.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (or equivalent).
At least 2 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (preferred).
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects (preferred).
At least 1 year of experience reading and/or writing code for documentation or demos (preferred).
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