Technical Program Manager Ii

Do you want to help us revolutionize how Microsoft measures, monitors, and manages its $140B+ business portfolio? Do you want to help us design and build the next generation of user experiences and analytics platforms using cutting-edge technology? Do you want to influence product engineering teams to shape the next generation of data and analytics capabilities available to millions of Microsoft customers worldwide?The Finance Data and Experiences organization (FD&E) builds scaled solutions that enable Microsoft to run its end-to-end business more effectively and efficiently. FD&E operates within the business and has delivery partnerships across Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering. Our products influence data-driven decision making across myriad users and audiences, ranging from the company’s Leadership Team to front-line sellers working directly with customers. We pride ourselves on a culture of customer centricity, innovation, agility, transparency, and flexibility. We are always eager to hear new ideas and promote out-of-the-box thinking when addressing complex process, architecture, or technology challenges.As a **Technical Program Manager II (TPM) **in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) team within FD&E, you will partner closely with finance and business stakeholders to understand their needs related to Revenue and Consumption related data; translate those needs into technical requirements; and collaborate with our engineering team to deliver solutions that help our users make data-driven business decisions. This role will accelerate your career growth by enabling you to develop deep technical skills in program management and leading-edge BI technologies, to hone your business and financial acumen, and to become adept at solving tough problems like meeting customer needs while addressing engineering priorities like long-term sustainability of the systems we build. This team and role embraces hybrid work. You’re able to partner with your manager to define how you’d like to work—whether that is in the office or a mix of home and office.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders. Join us and help shape the future of the world.**Responsibilities**:- Partners with Microsoft internal finance and business teams to understand business requirements for these users. Partners with other program management, engineering, data science, and upstream-data-source teams to define jointly how to execute across various program priorities to deliver Business Intelligence (BI) solutions that meet these users’ needs. Do this by 1.) focusing on _what_ users need and _why_, and 2.) drawing upon the technical expertise of FD&E data engineering and report developers who recommend _how_ we can best meet clearly articulated user needs.- Architects and designs right-sized solutions that meet the agility and scale needs of our business partners and users and that accrue to FD&E end-state vision. This requires gaining a deep understanding of users’ business scenarios, FD&E priorities, and our FD&E BI tech stack (including Azure Data Lake Services, PowerBI, Fabric, Excel, SQL, and DAX).- Runs efficient and effective scrum/agile/adaptive software development processes to ensure a continuous pipeline of clear and actionable requirements for development teams. This includes leading discussions on requirements gathering, technical specifications, and prioritization to create clear roadmaps for engineering development and delivery that are clearly articulated and documented in Azure DevOps (ADO).- Eagerly tackles a variety of tough problems faced by our business partners and FD&E. Roles & responsibilities may evolve over time but will be continually clarified. Having a growth mindset and flexibility on how your work and role is structured provides more career-growth opportunities, broader learning and exposure across the team, and improves everyone’s work-life balance when we are prepared to cover or backfill another role as needed.- Provides thought leadership on data quality assurance and process improvement & documentation to ensure accuracy, reliability, and credibility of our solutions.Product/Service Definition:- Works with Software Engineering to design architecture and integrated customer solutions that meet technical needs for a group of features or feature areas (e.g., product, service), with mínimal guidance. Proposes design and architecture documents for a group of features or feature areas. Understands what options are available to identify and select the best option that meets users’ needs with mínimal guidance. Assists architects and technical partners to develop. Works with internal and external technical partners and/or architects to represent technical