Microsoft - Program Manager II

Position: Program Manager 2

Microsoft IT India (MSIT India) - located in Hyderabad - is the largest IT operations center outside of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. It is the offshore arm of the Microsoft IT Engineering Divisions, which employs a host of niche technologies towards developing mission-critical business applications for Microsoft Corporation.

MSIT India employs a pool of talented IT professionals who consider the Centre as a great place to build their career, and help the customers and partners realize their full potential. It's the state-of-the-art technologies along with the world-class process rigor, which makes it an employer of choice.

MSIT India has grown to deliver almost 50% of Microsoft internal IT applications requirements. Besides, it also manages the organization's global data centers, corporate network, 10,000+ servers and various other infrastructure management activities from Hyderabad. MSIT India builds and delivers mission critical solutions and services that enable Microsoft to run and manage its business globally, and thereby help Microsoft customers and partners realize their full potential.

Find more @ http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/msit/about-us.aspx

Want to create mission critical Enterprise IT Services to help enable Microsoft's Business processes-

Are you looking to make a career move to increase your PM competencies- Do you have the technical chops to dig in deep into cloud, mobile and enterprise integration technologies and deliver mission critical IT Services- Are you jazzed by the idea of integrating multiple MS technologies into highly customer focused solutions- Are you interested in using your excellent communication skills to have a cross divisional impact- If you answered - Yes- to these questions, then this role would be for you!

You will be involved in analyzing customer requirements, articulating the right customer experience, ensuring the delivery of high quality specifications, and driving feature delivery. You will interface with internal and external partners/customers to evangelize these technologies and foster adoption, while using customer feedback to continually improve the services. You will also have the opportunity to present the platform vision and roadmap to customers and conference audiences.

Successful candidate must have great technical aptitude, great communication and cross-group skills, strong customer focus, a can-do attitude and the ability to jump in and get the job done in a fast-paced and stimulating environment.

Should have a Computer Science or related degree, plus a minimum of 8 year experience in designing and delivering enterprise-class solutions, as well as familiarity with Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and the .NET Framework) and/or competitive offerings (e.g. J2EE, WebLogic or WebSphere). Candidates should have previous experience with multiple product release cycles and should have at least 2 years of experience managing a team.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with Solution Owners, Business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Dev, Test, SE in analyzing requirements, analyzing impacts, proposing designs, fleshing these out to detailed designs, and finally driving the designs to completion through Feature Team virtual team leadership across PM, Dev, and Test

- Engage with business process units and work closely with upstream and downstream application owners to effectively build a - trusted advisor- relationship with these teams through consistent on-time, on- budget delivery

- Coordinate deliverables and dependencies with other groups to hit project milestones

- Build cross-team coordination and a community with other engineers relating to challenges & opportunities in the areas of app to app and business to business integrations

Qualifications:

7+ years of IT/Product Engineering experience, 5 years of core software engineering experience, and 3+ years operating in a complex, multi-system environment or an online service space

- Experience with shipping at least 2 full product releases, from release inception through live site support

- Excellent project management skills and extensive IT project management experience with complex projects, with a track record of successful launches on time and within budget

- Past programming experience in Microsoft technologies - or- programming/customization experience

- Excellent communication, client relationship skills, and customer experience focus

- Demonstrated passion for quality and attention to detail

- Effective time management in complex situations

- Excellent interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships across groups and all management levels

- Ability to effectively deal with ambiguous situations

- Ability to effectively communicate using multiple medias to present ideas

- Ability to impact and influence

Other helpful skills for this position include:

- Experience/background in Cloud and Mobile technologies

- Hands-on working knowledge of SQL and Data Analysis

- .NET programming experience

- High degree of professionalism, especially when faced with critical and intense situations

- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, engineering or a related field; MBA preferred