Program Manager Lead, Principal

Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 835662-110372
Division: Server & Tools Business

Are you passionate about solving deep technical problems with tough business requirements and direct customer impact? Do you want to work in a fast-paced platform cloud team shipping updates on a monthly basis? Do you want to design and build a massive scale, worldwide, highly available, customer-focused application and server platform? This may be the place for you

The Windows® Azure Runtime team builds the API Front End and application runtime of the Windows Azure platform, creating the endpoint for customer applications and services. The team handles the REST interfaces, application runtime, and developer experiences for Windows Azure deployments. The team also develops the business logic and technical requirements for worldwide deployments of Windows Azure applications.

The Role

We are looking for a Lead Program Manager to create a vision, lead a team, plan and drive features across a wide set of technology areas in the team. The primary focus will be customer facing work in the compute stack to lead the IaaS and PaaS platform forward in Windows Azure. This team will also be responsible for improvements in the scalability and global deployment of components managing compute resources.

The responsibilities will include:
Formulating a vision, value proposition and roadmap for compute improvements in the platform.
Guiding design and direction of the compute components, helping design for scalability and global reach.
Driving customer-focused engineering by planning and designing platform improvements based upon customer feedback.
Leading a team with guidance and direction based upon the above vision and strategy.

The Qualifications
Strong leadership, with proven track record with Program Manager core competencies.
History of successfully coordinating cross-team projects and collaborating with partners, both internal and external
Track record of making trade-offs, negotiating, and building consensus, all while keeping the project goals in mind
8-10 years of engineering experience, with demonstrated success in leading complex, cross-team software projects from planning through release
Strong working experience in Windows or large-scale cloud applications.
Experience in Linux is valuable
Technical Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Working experience in distributed programming models and in building very large scale distributed systems is desired

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