Senior Technical Program Manager

Job description

Azure Core Solutions and Ecosystems (AS&E) teams enterprises deploy their mission critical workloads such as SAP, Oracle, Epic, and VMware on dedicated infrastructure services managed by Azure.

AS&E builds new Azure Products by applying Azure’s innovation mechanisms along with Azure technologies to real world industry problems.

Within AS&E, the Azure Core Customer Solutions and Incubations team, works with industry leaders to solve problems and unblock industries, enabling them to capitalize on new digital business models.

Simply put, our goal is to use the skill and scale of Azure to make the benefits of a connected world achievable for all people, governments and companies on the planet.

The Azure Core Customer Solutions and Incubations teams is seeking to accelerate the deployment of SAP on Azure systems.

SAP on Azure is growing at an unprecedented scale across several industries, including public sector and sovereign industry segments.

This is an exciting time for an industry that is undergoing a massive shift further accelerated by the advent of AI technologies and capabilities.

Microsoft will lead the efforts to assist both governments and industry to rapidly transform customers and ISV’s businesses.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager in the Azure Core Customer Solutions and Incubations Engineering team, the individual will possess a can do attitude, a passion for solving hard problems, and a commitment to help build the best hyperscale cloud business on the planet.

The team's mission is to accelerate the deployment of SAP environments from on-prem or hybrid to the Microsoft Azure Clouds across their respective global industry segments.

This opportunity will allow you to develop deep business acumen, hone your product craft, and sharpen leadership skills.

This candidate will have experience working with customers in the migration or deployment of large-scale SAP cloud infrastructure projects and a depth background in SAP technical architecture and operations.

Emphasis on industry specific use-cases and technical acumen will be essential to success at scale.

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.

**Responsibilities**

+ Provide advisory to customers and partners in relation to planning, architecting and systematically deploying large scale SAP customer estates onto Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
+ Support the development of customer/partner program plans to define the phases, steps, roles and moments of truth in the customer journey for SAP on Azure migration programs and greenfield SAP deployments.
+ Drive rapid customer success by executing the SAP on Azure program plan, provide technical advisory, guidance and technical governance for successfully running optimized workloads on Azure.
+ Creating and maintaining internal and external product documentation and related artifacts to help drive customer adoption.

 
+ Co-engineering initiatives with core Product and Engineering teams spanning SAP Deployment Automation, SAP on Azure Monitoring and SAP on Azure Quality.
+ Developing and maintaining a long-term program roadmap in collaboration with technical subject matter experts, mitigating risks including technology shifts, industry or market constraints, and cost/pricing challenges.


+ Spearhead customer-led innovation by becoming design partners to Product Management and Engineering teams, and, offering platform feedback into the Product teams to ensure Azure is optimized for SAP workloads, making Azure the best cloud to run SAP workloads.

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years' 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.
+ 3+ years of Customer facing Consulting/Advisory experience.
+ 4+ years experience directly involved with technical implementation of complex/mission critical production systems in the Cloud.

**Other Qualifications:**

+ 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 AND 8+ years' experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis,
+ OR product development
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
+ 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
+ Technical experience in cloud computing – Compute, Storage, & Networking.
+ Technical experience in AI agent based automation and frameworks
+ Experience with Automation (Terraform, Ansible) is a bonus
+ Experience with Public Sector and sovereign cyber-security standards and practices (Not US specific)

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 October 31, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, 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.

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