This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your strong understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or sovereign cloud operations to further develop and evolve the cloud deployment and operations strategy for key sovereign workloads in Azure.

 Responsibilities

As a Principal Program Manager, you will be responsible for being an expert in how we build and operate sovereign clouds, work with stakeholders to understand their needs, help define the technical roadmap to ensure our future service meets those needs, and then deliver that offering to the end customer, ensuring it is operated with efficiency and quality.

As a leader of a growing team, your responsibilities will include:

• Product Strategy: You will be a part of a team focused on understanding customer needs and turning those needs in to new capabilities, tools, and processes for our cloud.
• Architecture: You will help mature the cloud architecture, identify opportunities for design optimization, and ensuring our cloud is positioned to scale. You be taking the existing cloud architecture, aligning it with customer requirements then help make prioritization decisions that have the most impact for our business model.
• Execution: You will be responsible for delivering an instance of the sovereign cloud, working from build and launch, through accreditation, to operational excellence once it’s live.
• Communications: You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining regular communications about the status of our cloud and upcoming developments. In addition, you will be able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.
• Team Collaboration: You will pull stakeholders together to align on a shared vision, working with a talented and diverse group of PMs, Developers, and internal teams that rely on our services to be successful. You must be a great collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft.
• Cultural Leadership: Ability and passion to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusion.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive Product / Program management experience with a proven track record of delivering results within a Cloud Services environment
• Demonstrated experience in planning, cross-group collaboration, communications, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
• Passion and proven record for execution with measurable results; focus on delivering impact.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
• Ability to work successfully across a complex, highly-matrixed environment
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity

 Desired Attributes: 

• Demonstrated capability in verbal and written communications skills across a geographically dispersed audience
• Executive presence with demonstrated deep engagement with senior level customers and decision makers.
• Be able to ramp quickly to understand and solve complex problems. This might be integration of technologies or environmental issues that are blocking a scenario for a customer.
• Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services.
• Good experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Ability to leverage telemetry and diagnostics to derive insights that add value to our operations.
• Examples of bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
• Excellent Communication Skills and Situational Awareness. You will be working closely with other product group people across Microsoft (Directors, Group Managers etc.) you will also work closely with customer leadership, engineers, and system administrators. You will have to be able to adjust your approach to the specific audience
• Experience in a 24x7 shift based Network Operations or SOC environment