Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.
In this role, you will be responsible for leading a global team of Technical Program Managers driving both feature development and operations to improve the security posture of the Microsoft fleet. You will be responsible for collaborating with partners and suppliers, as well as internal teams to deliver on our mission.
As Senior Director, Technical Program Management for firmware security and deployments, you will help ensure that Microsoft remains a trusted cloud provider.
Responsibilities
- Lead a global Technical Program Management team, with engineering efforts in the US, Taiwan, and India. Lead through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Attract and retain great people; invest in their growth.
- Set security standards and enforce them with our suppliers, and across the Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team.
- Define security features to help customers secure their own data, and to keep the fleet secure.
- Drive complete automation of firmware deployments and recovery, to achieve the highest deployment speeds and yields, at the lowest cost.
- Measure the business impact of our work.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years people management experience.
- 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screening:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position is required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of people management experience.
- 10+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 3+ years of experience writing code for commercial products.
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Technical Program Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of people management experience
- 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter
- Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of people management experience
- 10+ years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects
- 3+ years of experience writing code for commercial products
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