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Within CO+I, the Integrated Planning & Execution (IPE) - Datacenter Infrastructure team responsiblefor global planning to maximize efficiency of our capacity while optimizingsafety, security, and availability across our global datacenter portfolio.\nAs Principal Technical Program Manager for Region Health, you will shape the health and growth strategy for Microsoft’s cloud regions across the Americas. You will anticipate emerging constraints, identify opportunities to unlock greater value from capacity, and translate complex technical, customer, and business signals into portfolio priorities and decision-ready recommendations.\nYou will lead through ambiguity and influence across engineering, infrastructure, planning, finance, and commercial teams to shape strategy, clarify trade-offs, and drive decisions and outcomes. You will also turn insights from individual regions into scalable approaches that strengthen Region Health across the broader portfolio.\nYou will frame complex region-health challenges, establish the cross-functional strategy to address them, and drive decisions and outcomes across engineering, infrastructure, planning, finance, and commercial teams.\nThis is a senior individual-contributor role with portfolio-wide impact. You will shape strategy, influence executive decisions, and lead complex programs. Measurable results come from resolving regional and geographic challenges, and through influencing investment decisions. 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.\nThis role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Redmond, WA, Washington DC\nThis role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates who live within 50 miles of Microsoft's Redmond campus will be required to work from the office a minimum of 3 days per week.\nResponsibilities\nRegion Health Program:\nShape the Americas region health strategy. Define where regions can support growth, where intervention is needed, and how groups of regions provide scale to customers. Turn regional assessments into clear portfolio priorities.\nTurn risk and opportunity into decisions. Evaluate supply, demand, and service readiness across near- and long-term horizons. Recommend when to accelerate capacity, redirect growth, close service gaps or change regional plans-with clear customer, financial and technical trade-offs.\nDrive actions, track results. Build cross-team action plans with accountable owners, milestones and measurable outcomes. Secure leadership alignment, resolve dependencies, and verify that actions improve customers’ ability to deploy and grow.\nEvolve what “healthy” means. Look beyond installed capacity and utilization. Assess workload-ready capacity, availability-zone balance, service gaps, SLAs, and adoption against business expectations. Address gaps scenarios and under-utilization.\nMake improvements repeatable. Turn recurring blockers into lasting fixes. Strengthen the data, decision-making, and program practices teams use, and mentor TPMs to extend the impact across regions.\nYou will own integrated program outcomes through influence, while partner teams retain their engineering, operational, and investment responsibilities.\nProgram Leadership and Strategy:\nDefining end-to-end technical program plans using structured delivery frameworks including Agile and Waterfall, including scope, milestones, dependencies, and execution timelines.\nExecute a comprehensive multi-year program strategy to optimize infrastructure utilization across Microsoft's global datacenters.\nCollaborate with senior leadership to align program goals with organizational objectives and business priorities.\nLead cross-functional teams, including engineering, operations, and finance, to ensure program success.\nTechnical Expertise and Management:\nImplementing responsible AI practices in AI/ML systems, including model risk assessment, bias evaluation, data governance controls, and compliance with internal and regulatory AI policies.\nAnalyzing complex system and platform dependencies across distributed services, APIs, and infrastructure components to identify technical risks and execution constraints.\nManaging technical risk, issue, and decision tracking using formal TPM frameworks and escalation models.\nDefining technical requirements, success criteria, and acceptance metrics using functional and non-functional requirement specifications, including scalability, availability, performance, and security targets.\nProject Planning, Execution and Stakeholder Management:\nDefining operational readiness criteria for production releases using go-live checklists, failure-mode analysis, and post-deployment validation metrics.\nMonitor project progress, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure timely and successful delivery.\nCoordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of program activities.\nDriving program execution across distributed engineering teams by tracking delivery metrics including schedule variance, milestone burndown, throughput, and defect leakage.\nImplementing governance and change-control mechanisms for technical programs using impact analysis, dependency validation, and formal change-approval processes.\nContinuous Improvement and Innovation:\nDrive a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing best practices, innovative solutions, and process enhancements.\nStay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory requirements related to datacenter infrastructure and delivery.\nLead efforts to pilot and evaluate new technologies and methodologies to enhance program outcomes.\nQualifications\nRequired/Minimum Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.\n3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\nBackground Check Requirements:\nAbility 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:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nAdditional or Preferred Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.\n\n8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\n\n1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).\n\nProven experience leading complex, cross-team technical programs with significant infrastructure or platform components.\nStrong technical foundation in one or more of the following:Cloud infrastructure and distributed systems\nPlatforms or large-scale compute environments\n\nDemonstrated ability to manage execution in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership\nDeep Program Management expertise in converting data into insights into actions into impacts.\nChange Management and Stakeholder Management are important to the success of this role.\nExperience delivering programs that not only prove at pilot but also scale for impact.\nFamiliarity with data center operations, hardware lifecycle management, or global deployment programs.\nExperience driving cycle-time reduction or large-scale process transformation.\nBackground working with hyperscale cloud platforms or enterprise services.\n#COICareers | #EPCCareers | #DCDCareers\nTechnical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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