Principal Technical Program Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Technical Program Manager

Description

Lead complex, cross-organization programs for the Microsoft Fabric Platform Experiences team to improve platform readiness and maturity, execution predictability, feature health, live-site health, and operational efficiency. Build the mechanisms and operating rhythms that turn priorities and product/service health signals into prioritized plans with measurable outcomes. Drive integrated readiness across platform and workload teams by clarifying scenarios and success criteria, aligning dependencies, tracking infrastructure and test readiness, and moving from fragmented status reporting to evidence-based execution and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-team initiatives involving technical dependencies, operational requirements, and cross-organizational coordination

• Establish shared definitions of readiness, health, quality, risk, and completion across participating teams

• Create mechanisms that connect long-term strategy to weekly execution and measurable customer or business outcomes

• Identify systemic issues affecting multiple teams and drive durable platform-level or process-level solutions

• Provide leadership with clear recommendations, tradeoffs, escalation paths, and decision-ready information

• Drive cross-team product maturity initiatives by establishing shared criteria, tracking dependencies and risks, and driving successful execution

• Partner with engineering and operations to maintain visibility into live-site health, significant incidents, recurring failure patterns, and unresolved operational risks

• Identify high-friction, repetitive, or manual activities across planning, readiness, partner engagement, status reporting, risk management, and operational reviews and build automated solutions with AI

Requirements

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

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

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive-level program status, technical risks, strategic recommendations, and decision documents

Benefits

Eligible for benefits and other compensation (see the Microsoft careers pay information page for additional details).