Principal Technical Program Manager - Azure Storage

Microsoft
United States, Nevada, Reno
6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map)
Aug 06, 2025
OverviewAre you eager to shape the future of cloud computing and solve engineering challenges at a scale few can imagine? Join the Microsoft Azure Storage Engineering team as a Principal Technical Program Manager - Azure Storage, and take on a pivotal, high-impact role influencing the core of Azure's software infrastructure. In this position, you'll leverage your deep technical expertise and strategic vision to drive transformative programs aimed at elevating the reliability and scalability of our platform. This isn't just any technical role - you'll synthesize complex requirements, lead the creation of innovative proof of concepts and prototypes, and evaluate cutting-edge design alternatives. Your work will span multiple teams, where you'll formalize ambitious program roadmaps and coordinate tactical execution, ensuring alignment across diverse engineering groups. With a blend of technical insight and business savvy, you'll also identify strategic investment opportunities and chart Azure Storage's direction through cross-team integration and collaboration, both within Azure and across Microsoft.If you thrive on tackling hyperscale cloud platform problems and want to make a visible impact on the future of Azure, this is your chance.You will bring expertise as a Principal Technical Program Manager leading hyperscale cloud initiatives, with a proven ability to synthesize complex requirements and provide strategic direction to technical teams. This candidate balances visionary thinking with meticulous attention to detail, exercises strong analytical skills and pragmatic technical judgment to drive critical decisions, and excels at communicating plans and building consensus with executive leadership to ensure alignment and sustained momentum across the organization.Candidates should have experience combining both technical and business leadership on high impact, hyperscale programs. This position may require business travel on an as-needed basis. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. ResponsibilitiesPartner with Software and/or Hardware Engineering to design complex technical solutions across feature areas. You'll also give key stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks.Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas for highly complex cross-functional projects. You'll coordinate and ensure alignment across the business.Deliver on roadmap for multiple feature groups across divisions, track project schedules, drive development of staging and implementation plans, and lead governance programs.Drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and writing test cases from scratch. You'll also provide expertise needed for departments to collect performance metrics, lead customer support, and define and lead direct customer engagements.