Senior Manager, Release Management - Redmond, United States - Microsoft

Description

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further.

This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence.

The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI.

Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate.

The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.
Fabric platform Release Management team is hiring a Senior Manager, Release Management.

As part of the release management team, you are looked upon to identify and mitigate risks associated with the service reliability and customer experience, communicate clearly, and set collective path forward.

You will be leading a team responsible for shipping high quality platform services that enable multiple products in Microsoft Fabric offering.

In your role you will be accountable to adhere to compliance and reliable release on a weekly cadence and delivering on high customer expectations.

You will be collaborating with multiple partners and engineering teams globally to enhance and establish processes that increase productivity and efficiency.

The group fosters a diverse and inclusive work culture that prioritizes people at all times. We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers. We develop, test, and check code in every day.

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 customers are better served.
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.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years project or people management experience.
• 2+ years experience as a Release Manager.
• 1+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other RequirementsAbility 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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• 4+ years experience as a Release manager.
• 4+ years project or program management experience.
• 2+ years experience in Power BI or any other similar tools is a plus.
• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ years experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).Technical Program Management M- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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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.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Manages delivery success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Responsible for defining program and release criteria, driving release quality metrics and improvements.
• Directs team in defining the program(s) goals and prioritization for the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service) they own. Helps team translate the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables based on data insights.
• Leads team to identify opportunities and gaps in the implementation of feature/feature areas (e.g., product, service) including comparison of various quality and performance metrics to various solutions.
• Leads teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as quality and performance) of the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service)
• Leads teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service).
• Lead the team to own the engineer self- service experience and provides documentation (e.g., troubleshooting guidelines, best practices, blogs.
• Embody our culture and valuesEmployment typeFull-TimeWork siteUp to 50% work from homeRole typePeople ManagerDisciplineTechnical Program ManagementProfessionProgram Management