Microsoft Corporation Hiring for Director, New Technology Engineering Core Platforms at Redmond, Washington Full Time

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. 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 and we are looking for a Directo r to help achieve that mission.

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 an individual dedicated to 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 Director to join the New Technology Engineering (NTE) team under the HIFE orgainzation. 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.

Responsibilities

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

• Manage a team of NTE Program Managers (PM)s to support the introduction of new cloud services, hardware platforms and the tools/processes to deploy next generation cloud infrastructure capabilities.

• Oversee NTEs 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 senior Technical PMs within the team.

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.

Other Qualifications:

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 $133,600 – $256,800 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 $173,200 – $282,200 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

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