Senior Hardware Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Hardware Server Platform development and delivery for Azure’s cloud technologies and services.  You will have the opportunity to build cross-team partnerships to transform new hardware concepts into the final, scalable solution to be introduced to Microsoft’s Cloud (‘Concept to Live’).   Microsoft Azure is experiencing explosive growth and innovation connecting people, services, and devices around the world.  Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines your cross-team collaboration and technical capabilities with business insight and strategy?  As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new hardware infrastructure on time, with high quality and in high volume is of paramount importance.   SCHIE is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Silicon and Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 200+ online businesses including Office 365, Bing, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure cloud services, including AI, compute, storage and networking.  Successful candidates will have a proven capability for technical program management, organizational skills and experience leading culture and change management. This role requires someone who has a strategic mindset with a deep understanding of hardware development and manufacturing processes, as well as a bias for action and ability to partner successfully with a wide group of stakeholders, from senior leaders to individual contributors and support staff.    Come join this exciting and growing team on our monumental evolution of Azure cloud hardware and Microsoft!    #azurehwjobs     #CHIE    #NICE  Responsibilities Lead a virtual team of functional leads including members from hardware and software engineering, sourcing, supply chain, networking and datacenter operations for documenting a clear Plan-of-Record (POR) for the new product development and leading the project team to meet stated milestones   Technical Program Management for new Cloud hardware development.  Drive the development, planning & execution of a holistic cross functional product development and/or launch strategy.  Provides technical leadership and identify technical risks.   Collaborate with internal and external technology development partners to form a cohesive development plan.   Have an in-depth understanding of the product technical requirements, milestones, deliverables and interdependencies for establishing an accurate and effective project infrastructure.  Leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.   Responsible for effective communication and escalation of risks and dependencies while ensuring timely decisions are being made.   Hold accountability for team and most or all portions of the work to deliver best in class architecture solutions   Conducts risk management efforts in new product introduction, scenario planning and mitigation of risks, recovery from risks.    Communicate to and regularly interact with senior management, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions   Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process where it’s needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate.   Ensure cross functional alignment: generating clarity, tracking towards development milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure development, launch, and deployments.   Use program