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The Senior Technical Program Manager joins the Azure Core team to manage cloud capacity management technology and region health for high-scale distributed systems. In this role, you will autonomously own a large business area, partnering with Software and Hardware Engineering to design technical solutions, identify risks, and propose data-based mitigations. You will define success criteria, coordinate cross-functional projects, track schedules, and manage governance programs for multiple feature groups. Key responsibilities include validating use cases, writing test cases, and collecting performance metrics. Required skills include experience in engineering, product development, or data analysis, alongside cross-team project management. The work involves building decision-support, planning, and optimization products, as well as rules-based systems and policy engines to translate business constraints into durable platform capabilities for cloud infrastructure.
What does a Technical Program Manager earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 31 postings across 13 companies.
Own and operate a large area of the business autonomously.
Partner with Software and Hardware Engineering to design technical solutions and identify risks.
Define success criteria and coordinate alignment for complex cross-functional projects.
Deliver roadmaps for multiple feature groups and manage project schedules and governance.
Develop staging and implementation plans for new features.
Validate use cases and write test cases from scratch to drive continuous improvement.
Collect performance metrics and lead direct customer engagements.
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 experience.
2+ 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, or equivalent experience (preferred).
2+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, datacenter design, distributed systems, or related hardware/software areas (preferred).
2+ years of experience building cloud applications with knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings (preferred).
Experience building decision-support, planning, allocation, or optimization products for business-critical operational decisions at scale (preferred).
Experience partnering with engineering, data science, and operations research to deliver measurable business outcomes (preferred).
Hardware Development
Cloud Infrastructure
Technical Program Management
datacenter operations
Networking
Supply Chain
Risk Management
Product Development
Optics Switch Systems
Data Analysis
Debugging