Technical Program Management

Technical Program Management

The Global & Region Expansion team is responsible for driving the global growth and expansion of Azure commercial cloud and AI regions. The team leads the strategic planning & development of regional infrastructure plans for new and expanding regions to meet technical design, schedule, and cost requirements for medium- and long-term global region health.

If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, if strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out of the box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table – this job is for you!

We are hiring a Technical Program Manager for our Geo Expansion function, covering new region launch and existing region expansion planning within the Middle East and Africa. This role is responsible for managing cross‑functional infrastructure strategy and plans to support our rapidly scaling data center infrastructure. This role will program manage strategy and planning for Microsoft’s new cloud region launches and regional expansions. The right candidate will drive clarity and decisions on infrastructure sourcing signals by integrating with Azure, Finance, and Infrastructure acquisition teams, including land, power, network, and data center leasing and acquisition.

This role is part of a critical function that will be accountable for driving critical infrastructure decisions making sure all inputs are adequately captured and analysed. This role will focus on:

• Analysis of regional demand and supply inputs and variances to support long‑term decisions
• Coordinating and driving infrastructure decisions on a timely manner
• Identifying data needs, collecting required data, and providing the analysis to expedite decision making
• Coordinating with finance on financial analysis and decision alignment
• Program managing inputs to planning of new cloud regions
• Understanding and clarifying key constraints to deploying new regions in a timely manner

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in cross‑functional program management, especially in a strategy, planning and decision‑making environment
• 5+ years’ experience in data and analysis for decision making
• 5+ years demonstrated experience leading and managing a business‑critical function
• BS/BA degree required
• Ability to communicate and present complex analysis at the executive levels for alignment and decision making
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to drive projects, and build buy‑in and support

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in planning cloud specific infrastructure

Background Check 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage the new and existing expansion cloud region strategy and planning processes.
• Coordinate inputs for planning of new region launches and existing region expansions across infrastructure acquisition and Azure.
• Manage the infrastructure decision process to drive decisions on time and in alignment with our strategy.
• Drive close collaboration with planning and execution teams to resolve infrastructure problems.
• Perform data analysis as required for driving infrastructure decisions.

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