Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for a Director, New Technology Engineering AI/ML Platforms with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a passionate, driven, and intellectually curious Director to join the New Technology Engineering (NTE) organization . NTE is responsible for leading the engineering, validation, and production readiness for new cloud service capacity. This role has a direct and measurable impact in delivering Azure capacity leveraging server platform capabilities and architectures. Our key focus is in reducing the Time-to-Market (TTM) for new services and ensuring the quality and scalability of infrastructure capacity to enable Microsoft customers. A successful candidate for this role will leverage their analytical, leadership, and communication skills to drive the team to deliver innovative solutions that will transform the way our customers interact with our products.

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

As a Director of NTE Core Platforms, responsibility will include,

• Manage a team of NTE PMs to support the introduction of new cloud services, hardware platforms and the tools/processes to deploy next generation cloud infrastructure capabilities.

• Oversee NTE’s relationship with and encourage partnerships with organizations across Microsoft such as Datacenters, Supply Chain, hardware and software development, Architects Program Managers, Business Development, Legal and other relevant Microsoft teams invested in ensuring that new services meet scale and cycle time specifications for high volume server deployments.

• Provide technical and organizational leadership, and drive collaboration across organizations to deliver processes and tooling readiness for New Technology deployments in Azure datacenters.

• Serve as a member of NTE leadership team, accountable for modeling and encouraging core cultural values such as respect, integrity, and accountability.

• Analyze data to identify, prototype, and drive the implementation of technical and process improvements to increase the predictability, agility, and quality of our capacity deployment systems.

• Continuously drive improvements in the Time-to-Market (TTM) for the introduction of new cloud services

• Effectively communicate with and influence executives and technology leaders inside and outside of Microsoft.

• Drive technical projects from requirements through launch, including managing complex project schedules, mitigating risks, and keeping processes running smoothly.

• Coach and mentor Technical PMs within the team.

• Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.

• 3+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 2+ years of new product hardware development experience.

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 10+ years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.

• 8+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

• 2+ years’ experience with large-scale distributed systems, datacenter infrastructure, and cloud services engineering.

Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html)

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 11, 2024.

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