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Are you eager to shape the future of cloud computing and solve engineering challenges at a scale few can imagine? Join the Microsoft Azure Storage Engineering team as a Principal Technical Program Manager - Azure Storage, and take on a pivotal, high-impact role influencing the core of Azure’s software infrastructure. In this position, you’ll leverage your deep technical expertise and strategic vision to drive transformative programs aimed at elevating the reliability and scalability of our platform. This isn’t just any technical role - you’ll synthesize complex requirements, lead the creation of innovative proof of concepts and prototypes, and evaluate cutting-edge design alternatives. Your work will span multiple teams, where you’ll formalize ambitious program roadmaps and coordinate tactical execution, ensuring alignment across diverse engineering groups. With a blend of technical insight and business savvy, you’ll also identify strategic investment opportunities and chart Azure Storage’s direction through cross-team integration and collaboration, both within Azure and across Microsoft. If you thrive on tackling hyperscale cloud platform problems and want to make a visible impact on the future of Azure, this is your chance. You will bring expertise as a Principal Technical Program Manager leading hyperscale cloud initiatives, with a proven ability to synthesize complex requirements and provide strategic direction to technical teams. This candidate balances visionary thinking with meticulous attention to detail, exercises strong analytical skills and pragmatic technical judgment to drive critical decisions, and excels at communicating plans and building consensus with executive leadership to ensure alignment and sustained momentum across the organization. Candidates should have experience combining both technical and business leadership on high impact, hyperscale programs. This position may require business travel on an as-needed basis. 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 Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relate technical field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development • OR equivalent experience • 3+ years of proficiency managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. • 4+ years of experience working on hyperscale cloud platforms 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 in computer science or computer engineering AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, OR product development • OR equivalent experience. • 8+ years of proficiency managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 30, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azurecorejobs • Partner with Software and/or Hardware Engineering to design complex technical solutions across feature areas. You’ll also give key stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks. • Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas for highly complex cross-functional projects. You’ll coordinate and ensure alignment across the business. • Deliver on roadmap for multiple feature groups across divisions, track project schedules, drive development of staging and implementation plans, and lead governance programs. • Drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and writing test cases from scratch. You’ll also provide expertise needed for departments to collect performance metrics, lead customer support, and define and lead direct customer engagements.

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