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Technical Principal Program Manager

United States, Multiple Locations 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 04, 2026
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You will lead through technical insight and strategic clarity—owning the delivery of critical initiatives, influencing design decisions, and ensuring engineering investments are aligned with long-term platform goals. Your impact will be measured not just by what ships, but by how the platform evolves under your leadership. A successful candidate for the Technical Program Principal Manager role is data-driven and someone who thrives on Microsoft's leadership principles; provides clarity, generates excitement, and makes things happen. If you love customer obsession, product mindset, elegant solutions for complex technical problems then this could be the position for you.

Job Responsibility

  • Provide technical leadership across Azure Compute by identifying architectural gaps, scaling challenges, and opportunities for innovation
  • Drive the design and delivery of platform-wide initiatives that improve system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
  • Partner with engineering and product leaders to align technical strategy with customer and business priorities
  • Take a structural approach in solving complex problems
  • Communicate to decision makers in a clear and compelling way
  • Stellar cross group collaboration, able to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large and diverse organization and deliver results that depend on the broader Microsoft organization
  • Define targets for business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and track and report progress on them
  • Help lead and champion a team culture that embraces diversity

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
  • 1+ years people management experience
  • 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
  • 4+ years of software industry experience working as a technical program manager, product manager or developer
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
  • 4+ years people management experience
  • 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
  • 1+ years of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
  • 7+ years of technical program or product management experience in a cloud environment
  • 3+ year(s) of hands on experience with data analytic tools (such as Power BI, SQL)

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