Senior Program Manager job at Microsoft
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Vacancy title:
Senior Program Manager

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Management ]

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Microsoft

Deadline of this Job:
23 December 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, December 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
• DCIS is looking for a Sr. Program Manager to manage the full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure programs for the Microsoft Cloud. Successful candidates will have a proven capability with program management, strong organizational skills and experience leading culture and change management. This role requires someone who has a strategic mindset with a solid understanding of hardware development processes. Collaboration, influencing without authority and adaptability across a wide group of stakeholders from senior leaders to individual contributors and support staff are core competencies essential to success in this role.
• In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities
• Represent CO+I as the subject matter expert across concept to live phases of Microsoft Cloud hardware product development and new product introduction processes.
• Collaborate with SME’s across Datacenter Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Serviceability, Diagnostics and Operations teams within CO+I and across the Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering organization to incorporate requirements across the new product introduction development processes and phase gates
• Lead a virtual team of functional leads to land on a clear plan of record and ensure alignment across stakeholders on core CO+I requirements.
• Lead ad hoc and continuous improvement programs, initiatives or projects across CO+I and Microsoft.
• Conduct and document technical and operational risk assessments, drive tradeoffs and document decisions within and across teams.
• Drives accountability for decisions and deliverables with partner teams throughout the NPI lifecycle
• Effectively and regularly track, manage and communicate CO+I related program status, risks, dependencies, schedules and milestones to leadership teams
• Ensure CO+I related requirements documents and specifications are updated by as DC and HW technology evolves and new concepts are approved

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Program Management or related fields or equivalent experience. (Engineering degree preferred but not required)
• 7+ years experience with technical program management, driving requirements, managing schedules, identifying, managing and mitigating risks.
• 3+ years of hands on experience with using tools such as Azure DevOps, PowerBI, SQL/Kusto or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications
• Masters degree in an Computer Science, Program Management or related discipline
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, assess opportunities and develop principles to prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options, and drive issues to closure with a high bar on quality
• Proven ability to work and collaborate with a wide range of business and engineering stakeholders to achieve results and impact
• Growth Mindset – a desire to learn, improve, and show persistence in the face of setbacks
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and comfortable presenting to diverse set of stakeholders.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization and working with cross-functional teams

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.

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 23 December 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 09-12-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 09-12-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 09-12-2065
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