Microsoft Looking For Technical Program Management IC3 at Redmond, WA Full Time

Do you want to help us revolutionize how Microsoft measures, monitors, and manages its $140B+ business portfolio? Do you want to help us design and build the next generation of cutting-edge user experiences & advanced analytics platforms using the latest technology stack? Do you want to influence our product engineering teams in building the next generation of services and capabilities used by millions of users worldwide?

If so, we have a great opportunity for you in the Finance Data & Experiences (or FD&E for short) global organization. In FD&E, we build solutions at scale that enable Microsoft to run its business more efficiently and more effectively through trusted, connected, and compliant solutions. We operate within the business and have strong delivery partnerships across Engineering Groups, Finance, Sales, and Marketing. Our products influence data-driven decision making across a vast array of users and audiences, ranging from the company’s Senior Leadership Team to front-line sellers working with our customers.

We pride ourselves with a culture of customer centricity, innovation, agility, transparency, and flexibility. We are always eager to hear new ideas and promote out of the box thinking when addressing complex process, architecture, or technology challenges.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with a strong track record of delivery excellence. This individual will be part of Consumer Finance Insights & Analytics PM team, primarily responsible for Modern Life Finance. Our platform and programs gravitate around data engineering, analytics, data science, user experiences, and reporting- experience managing and delivering on these areas is a strong plus.

In this role, you will:
Own business-partnering engagement, subject matter expertise, and long-term technical roadmaps for our FD&E solutions. This includes project/sprint management, communications, requirement gathering, support orchestration, executive status updates, business partner relationship management. Help our users maximize the value of our data solutions via evangelization, change management, and user-education efforts like readiness materials, training sessions, and hand-on support

Translate finance and business opportunities into a clear and consumable action plan by bridging business needs with technical specifications and capability requirements

Architect and design right-sized solutions to meet the agility and scale needs of our business partners that accrue to FD&E end-state vision. This requires gaining a deep understanding of users’ business scenarios, FD&E priorities, and our FD&E BI tech stack. Partner with engineering, data science, and corporate system organizations leads to jointly define execution strategies across the different programs’ priorities

Run efficient and effective agile processes to ensure a continuous pipeline of clear and actionable requirements for development teams. This includes leading discussions on requirements gathering, technical specifications, and prioritization to create clear roadmaps for engineering development and delivery that are clearly articulated and documented in Azure DevOps

Drive continuous process improvements and ensure we deliver best in class tools and capabilities for our customers

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience

1+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability in building strong business partnerships and influence decision making

Excellent communication skills

Experience driving business and engineering process improvement

Experience managing project backlogs and prioritization via Azure DevOps or similar tool

Experience with developing BI solutions leveraging SQL, Power BI modeling, including working knowledge of DAX

Comfortable working through ambiguity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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