Are you an experienced Azure Project/Program Manager with a desire to excel? If so, then Talent Software Services may have the job for you! Our client is seeking an experienced Azure Project/Program Manager to work in Redmond, WA.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Drive programs focused on getting Azure to reduce the time-to-market and cost of its hyper-scale footprint while meeting different specialized requirements from strategic industries.
• Partner with Engineering Teams across Azure to deliver the services required by the customer.
• Collaborate with others to define success criteria and performance metrics (Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs etc.) for your programs and work with your teams to track and report on execution against these regularly.
• Lead and coordinate cross-team efforts to drive engineering solutions to technical challenges and deliver quality solutions to committed schedules and project plans.
• Present plans and progress to executive audiences

Qualifications:

• 8 year(s) of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 5 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• 3 year(s) of Azure experience

Preferred:

• Prior experience designing and/or building complex enterprise scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with software development tools and techniques.
• Good experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Be able to ramp quickly to understand and solve complex problems.
• This might be integration of technologies or environmental issues that are blocking a scenario for a customer.
• Good experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Ability to leverage telemetry and diagnostics to derive insights that add value to our program.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, collaboration skills & situational awareness
• Metric-driven mindset and the ability to experiment, learn, and improve.
• Willingness to learn and grow.