Overview

Azure Core Compute (ACC) enables customers to run their most critical workloads by delivering a secure, resilient, and high‑performance compute platform across virtual machines (VMs), containers, and bare metal. The platform is designed to support a broad range of customer scenarios while maintaining strong foundations in security, reliability, scalability, and performance.

In Azure Core Compute (ACC), you will lead cross‑team execution for a defined group of features or feature areas. This includes close partnership with software engineering and hardware engineering teams to design solutions, define clear success metrics, manage dependencies, and plan releases in a coordinated and transparent manner.

You will use data and telemetry to drive continuous improvements in quality, reliability, scalability, and performance, ensuring that customer workloads operate efficiently and consistently. This role emphasizes collaboration, accountability, and technical rigor to deliver outcomes that align with customer needs and platform goals.

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- Drive cross-functional delivery for a group of Azure Core Compute initiatives spanning compute platform capabilities (e.g., VM/compute management experiences, platform fundamentals), coordinating across partner teams to keep execution aligned and unblocked.
• Partner with Engineering to design technical solutions, identify risks, and propose solutions grounded in telemetry/service data
• Define success criteria and metrics (e.g., OKRs/KPIs), ensure required telemetry is in place, and communicate tradeoffs and ROI to stakeholders.
• Own program planning and orchestration: break down programs into projects/operations, manage schedules
• Lead end to end planning and execution of large, complex technical programs involving multiple engineering and operational teams
• Drive alignment across stakeholders, manage dependencies, and proactively identify and mitigate risks
• Partner with engineering teams on architecture reviews, design tradeoffs, and technical decisions

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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 AND 5+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.
• 4+ 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).

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Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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.