Senior Program Manager - Bengaluru/Bangalore @ Microsoft

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for Technical Program Managers:

• Build trust for Azure as a product, and Microsoft as a company, with Microsoft largest, most important customers.

• Collaborate with Microsoft and customer engineers to build elegant and practical solutions to real-world challenges.
• Act as Product Owner (PO) for customer open source engineering projects.
• Partner with technical specialists, Microsoft product teams, partners, and open source communities to empower customers to do more with Azure.
• Identify emerging patterns while developing new capabilities.
• Cultivate partnership and trust within agile teams of customer and Microsoft engineers.

• Scope engineering engagements to generate immediate customer value and maximize long-term reuse potential.
• Help build and maintain a portfolio of Open Source Software (OSS) projects.
• Participate in hands-on coding activities to maintain up-to-date technical knowledge.
• Understand common cloud architecture patterns and trade-offs, best practices for cloud engineering, developer productivity issues, etc.
• Contribute to a collaborative culture that embraces inclusivity and diversity.

Here are some of the qualities and experiences we are looking for:

Required Qualifications:

• At least 3+ years experience in software engineering in a technical program/product owner /architect or developer role.
• At least 3+ years experience working with cloud computing technologies.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• You should self-identify as a technical program/product manager with a passion for cloud technologies.
• Previous experience as a technical program/product manager.

• Track record of working closely with agile and diverse engineering teams.
• Industry experience in Retail or Consumer Goods verticals.
• Comfort with a command line and OSS software.
• Understanding of cloud and other computing technologies, including business drivers and emerging trends across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
• Experience working in geographically dispersed teams.

• Self-starter who likes tackling new challenges and working independently.
• Ability to build relationships with senior technical and business leaders.
• Strong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English.
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time. Most travel is regional, but there are occasional international trips.