Job Category: Technical Service and IT
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 850933-122698
Division: IT
Description
Microsoft IT is for those IT professionals and business technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using all of Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft IT provides career growth opportunities, a rewarding and flexible work environment so you can better integrate professional and personal life. Unlike other IT organizations, Microsoft IT employees make global impact on thousands of customers and thousands of employees who use Microsoft software and services.
All around us, business and personal ecosystems are undergoing a paradigm shift to new digital experiences. Microsoft and Microsoft IT play a central role in enabling this transformation. Are you passionate about leading the creation of our digital future? If so, this Senior Program Manager role may be just right for you.
Microsoft IT is a $1.2B global organization with 4000+ employees and a mission to deliver IT solutions and services that drive innovation and business value to Microsoft. Like all other businesses, MS IT itself is undergoing this shift from manual/analog business process to reimagined digital processes. Digitizing MS IT’s own business processes/services will help drive economies of scale, reduce friction, and most importantly: drive continual, breakthrough improvement to the customer/partner experience.
The Global Finance Engineering (GFE) organization is seeking innovative Feature PM who can represent their Microsoft Business Partner as part of the overall Microsoft Planning platform. A successful candidate will act as a subject matter expert in the business process and in the capabilities of MSPlanCast platform. This role is primarily responsible for designing and overseeing implementation of new features for the business tools leveraging new and existing features of the MSPlanCast platform. This role works closely with the Business SME’s and the MSPlanCast platform PM to inform and influence the platform roadmap and make sure the unsupported customer needs are known. As new platform extensions are released, this role works with the tenet engineering team to design and build solutions using the new extensions. By representing the business customer’s needs to the platform, the tenet team can continually add value to their customers by staying ahead of their needs.
The candidate must be self-motivated, proactive, and possess the demonstrated ability to for maintaining depth of expertise in new business process and technical domains. Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment are very important.
Program Management and Delivery responsibilities will include:
Lead multiple concurrent features; managing scope, schedule, issues/risks, trade-offs, communications and expectations.
Must be ready to and be able to get into details (functional and technical) and drive to resolve issues.
Performing functional and technical analysis including functional specification creation and data modeling.
Should have a true passion to deal with multiple customer groups & internal IT partners.
Manage project plan and schedule commitments for assigned features, ensure plan is integrated and aligned to overall organizational and business strategy.
Work with business partners to define and prioritize requirements and scope.
Develop and sustain strong working relationships with business partners, solution deliver, development, test, operations, vendors and IT partners.
Demonstrate that customer satisfaction is top priority by ensuring team’s commitments are aligned with and delivered to meet customer satisfaction objectives.
Analyze, remove, and proactively prevent roadblocks across team to meet quality standards, project milestones, and business objectives.
Follow and enforce structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology, ensuring projects adhere to SDLC key controls and milestones.
Ensure feature team output consistently meets standards and policies for security, privacy and performance.
Work with SD and business customers to inventory emerging business needs.
Manage the design of feature enhancements to meet the emerging business needs.
Manage the vendor analysts responsible for delivering functional designs.
Manage the tactical engineering planning across internal and partner teams for assigned features.
Help define the engineering requirements for new features.
Create efficiencies in engineering process that improve our delivery capabilities (focus on excellence)
Understand the responsibilities and working styles of each partner team, and facilitate improvements in our cross team effectiveness (teamwork)
Minimum qualifications include:
Minimum of six years of experience as project manager/program manager, systems analyst or systems/management consultant.
Bachelor Degree or equivalent in engineering, computer science, or business/information management systems.
Minimum of two years of IT experience in Program Management. Finance line of business applications experience is a plus.
Preferred qualifications include:
Proven ability to perform functional and technical analysis.
Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)
Understanding of Enterprise IT at the scale and complexity of Microsoft.
Exceptional ability to collaborate, openly communicate, present and negotiate effectively across disciplines and groups, with vendors and with customers.
Demonstrated experience delivering results in an ambiguous and changing environment, the ability to work independently and be a self-starter.
Strong customer focus, systems analysis and analytical problem solving skills is a must
Sound judgment and decision-making skills, ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, and ability to work under deadline pressure
Demonstrated experience delivering software applications using structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology; should include experience where candidate was personally responsible for completing typical program manager owned deliverables including project schedules and functional specifications.
High degree of technical aptitude and a passion to learn new technologies. Ability to quickly grasp and understand technical problems and concepts and apply this knowledge.
Excellent project planning, management and deployment skills.
Meticulous attention to detail and a passion for driving execution at a detail level when necessary while maintaining the ability to see the big picture.
Experience working in a global delivery model.
CFIT
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Program Manager, Engineer, Manager, Computer Science, Testing, Management, Engineering, Technology
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 850933-122698
Division: IT
Description
Microsoft IT is for those IT professionals and business technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using all of Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft IT provides career growth opportunities, a rewarding and flexible work environment so you can better integrate professional and personal life. Unlike other IT organizations, Microsoft IT employees make global impact on thousands of customers and thousands of employees who use Microsoft software and services.
All around us, business and personal ecosystems are undergoing a paradigm shift to new digital experiences. Microsoft and Microsoft IT play a central role in enabling this transformation. Are you passionate about leading the creation of our digital future? If so, this Senior Program Manager role may be just right for you.
Microsoft IT is a $1.2B global organization with 4000+ employees and a mission to deliver IT solutions and services that drive innovation and business value to Microsoft. Like all other businesses, MS IT itself is undergoing this shift from manual/analog business process to reimagined digital processes. Digitizing MS IT’s own business processes/services will help drive economies of scale, reduce friction, and most importantly: drive continual, breakthrough improvement to the customer/partner experience.
The Global Finance Engineering (GFE) organization is seeking innovative Feature PM who can represent their Microsoft Business Partner as part of the overall Microsoft Planning platform. A successful candidate will act as a subject matter expert in the business process and in the capabilities of MSPlanCast platform. This role is primarily responsible for designing and overseeing implementation of new features for the business tools leveraging new and existing features of the MSPlanCast platform. This role works closely with the Business SME’s and the MSPlanCast platform PM to inform and influence the platform roadmap and make sure the unsupported customer needs are known. As new platform extensions are released, this role works with the tenet engineering team to design and build solutions using the new extensions. By representing the business customer’s needs to the platform, the tenet team can continually add value to their customers by staying ahead of their needs.
The candidate must be self-motivated, proactive, and possess the demonstrated ability to for maintaining depth of expertise in new business process and technical domains. Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment are very important.
Program Management and Delivery responsibilities will include:
Lead multiple concurrent features; managing scope, schedule, issues/risks, trade-offs, communications and expectations.
Must be ready to and be able to get into details (functional and technical) and drive to resolve issues.
Performing functional and technical analysis including functional specification creation and data modeling.
Should have a true passion to deal with multiple customer groups & internal IT partners.
Manage project plan and schedule commitments for assigned features, ensure plan is integrated and aligned to overall organizational and business strategy.
Work with business partners to define and prioritize requirements and scope.
Develop and sustain strong working relationships with business partners, solution deliver, development, test, operations, vendors and IT partners.
Demonstrate that customer satisfaction is top priority by ensuring team’s commitments are aligned with and delivered to meet customer satisfaction objectives.
Analyze, remove, and proactively prevent roadblocks across team to meet quality standards, project milestones, and business objectives.
Follow and enforce structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology, ensuring projects adhere to SDLC key controls and milestones.
Ensure feature team output consistently meets standards and policies for security, privacy and performance.
Work with SD and business customers to inventory emerging business needs.
Manage the design of feature enhancements to meet the emerging business needs.
Manage the vendor analysts responsible for delivering functional designs.
Manage the tactical engineering planning across internal and partner teams for assigned features.
Help define the engineering requirements for new features.
Create efficiencies in engineering process that improve our delivery capabilities (focus on excellence)
Understand the responsibilities and working styles of each partner team, and facilitate improvements in our cross team effectiveness (teamwork)
Minimum qualifications include:
Minimum of six years of experience as project manager/program manager, systems analyst or systems/management consultant.
Bachelor Degree or equivalent in engineering, computer science, or business/information management systems.
Minimum of two years of IT experience in Program Management. Finance line of business applications experience is a plus.
Preferred qualifications include:
Proven ability to perform functional and technical analysis.
Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)
Understanding of Enterprise IT at the scale and complexity of Microsoft.
Exceptional ability to collaborate, openly communicate, present and negotiate effectively across disciplines and groups, with vendors and with customers.
Demonstrated experience delivering results in an ambiguous and changing environment, the ability to work independently and be a self-starter.
Strong customer focus, systems analysis and analytical problem solving skills is a must
Sound judgment and decision-making skills, ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, and ability to work under deadline pressure
Demonstrated experience delivering software applications using structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology; should include experience where candidate was personally responsible for completing typical program manager owned deliverables including project schedules and functional specifications.
High degree of technical aptitude and a passion to learn new technologies. Ability to quickly grasp and understand technical problems and concepts and apply this knowledge.
Excellent project planning, management and deployment skills.
Meticulous attention to detail and a passion for driving execution at a detail level when necessary while maintaining the ability to see the big picture.
Experience working in a global delivery model.
CFIT
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Program Manager, Engineer, Manager, Computer Science, Testing, Management, Engineering, Technology
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