Senior Program Manager - Microsoft

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit of thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our ideas are better, our products are better, and our customers are better served. 

• Working with field teams customers to demonstrate value and driving success from demo to proof-of-concept to design and implementation.
• Capturing best-practices from engagements, field teams and engineering, and sharing with the worldwide Azure Data Services community via whitepapers, blogs, presentations and training
• Maintaining deep understanding of complementary and competitive technologies and vendors and be able to design and position a more compelling Azure Data Services based solution.
• Collaborating with product management and Dev teams to continuously improve the product.
• Assisting and advising our partner ecosystem to develop robust, high quality solutions for customers.
• Organize trainings and workshops to for partner enablement and training.
• Be a trusted advisor to some of our largest customers and guide them in their Azure Synapse Analytics Lifecycle

Required Qualifications

5+ years of technical and consulting experience in the following or related areas:

• Min 12 months of experience implementing Spark 2.x or newer, preferably in a cloud environment, the work should have included, design, development, debugging, deployment, operationalization, troubleshooting and performance optimization
• Be skilled and familiar with 2 of the following and willing to learn the others; Scala, PySpark, Spark SQL, Java, C#
• General background and experience with large data systems on-premises and in the Cloud
• Familiarity with big data scheduling and orchestration engines (Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Luigi, Beam, NiFi etc) or Data Warehousing is a plus
• Familiarity with Data Science/Machine Learning a plus
• Understanding of data, application, server and network security
• Demonstrated ability to engage with customers and partners to synthesize a simple solution from ambiguous and/or complex business requirements and constraints
• Experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role
• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills, particularly the ability to synthesize complex issues/scenarios into easy-to-understand concepts. 

Cloud Screening (required for all C+AI Job Descriptions)

Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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