Principal Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

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  Drive constructive dialogue across technology, industry and customer/account facing teams within Microsoft to help qualify and narrow down the best opportunities to generate business impact within the Automotive, Mobility and Transportation industry area.
• Assure that engineering projects are defined to generate immediate customer value while also maximizing long-term reuse potential and enabling industry adoption of Microsoft technologies.
• Act as Product Owner (PO) on projects, developing problem statements, success criteria, defintion of done, epics/stories, prioritized backlog, etc.
• Drive the selection and prioritization of ongoing, foundational projects to create reusable assets.
• Identify and provide feedback to product engineering teams on any technical blockers to Microsoft/Azure platform adoption—e.g., platform features, developer tooling, open source/third party solution integrations.
• Investigate “prior art”, both internally and externally, to make best use of existing assets and expertise.
• Work with engineering managers to identify, onboard and make efficient use of subject matter experts in project teams as needs evolve over the project lifecycle.
• Evolve best practices in open source software (OSS) development to help project teams make consistently high-quality, sustainable OSS contributions.
• Maintain up-to-date technical knowledge, to understand key architecture/design trade-offs, developer productivity/ease-of-use factors and competitive/alternative approaches that customers could take to addressing the scenario.
• Cultivate AMT domain know-how around relevant industry topics within the AMT team and across related teams inside Microsoft.

Qualifications

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  3-5 years experience working in Automotive, Mobility, Transportation or closely-related industries.
• Proven record of success with program management and cloud-based product development in the software industry.
• Deep understanding of cloud, edge and other computing technologies, including business drivers and emerging trends across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
• Experience working in geographically dispersed, virtual teams and ability to orchestrate high-performing engineering teams.
• Self-starter and ability to work with a high degree of independence.
• Ability to build relationships with senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of best practices in cloud architecture
• Track record of working closely with large engineering teams in a test-driven, agile development methodology.
• Strong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English.
• Be prepared to spend 25-35% annually travelling within your global region (EMEA) with occasional travel worldwide.
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