Are you intrigued by the challenge of building a system that can intelligently gather and maintain an understanding of every device that Microsoft’s owns or that connects to Microsoft’s resources? Do you have a creative spirit with a passion for delivering great experiences on large scale scenarios? Are you intrigued by using advanced data conflation and AI techniques to capture the relationships between items in the inventory and operational hierarchies, systems and organizational structures it impacts? Services Engineering and Operations team has an exciting role in the Core Platform Fundamentals (CPF) team working on a service called OneAsset.
Today’s business processes rely more and more on data and analytics for effective end to end business solutions based on an ever-increasing number of systems that have to interop together. A key role in this orchestration are trustworthy and accurate master data sources. The OneAsset at Microsoft is one of those critical master inventory systems that brings our systems together with significant implications on agility of our businesses, optimizing costs and allowing business verticals to seize opportunities. We enable this by providing unprecedented visibility by modeling the lifecycle of assets and how they interact with to business processes. OneAsset reconciles the data from multiple agents and systems and using advanced analytics techniques to build one accurate master inventory from multiple incomplete sources: the sum is much more valuable than the parts. Once we have the data reconciled and connected, currently at 7 million assets, we develop data mining and visualizations services to integrate those insights into our business verticals.

The Enterprise Asset Management market is currently on the cusp of a significant update cycle leveraging new capabilities in data and analytics and specifically incorporating ML and AI for predicting, preventing and even self-healing systems when it comes to end accuracy. You will be working on solutions that are cutting edge and setting up the trends for the EAM industry.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Program Manager in this team, you will work closely with the stakeholders of our platform across Microsoft to understand where the enhancements required in the end-to-end system, driving the design, planning and delivering processes to make those improvements a reality. You will have the opportunity to apply analytics and AI into effective data solutions that are productized as part of Microsoft business critical systems and services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience creating and releasing services as a Program Manager/Product owner
• Experience building & reviewing quality user scenarios, acceptance criteria for features, and measurement of scenario outcomes
• Demonstrated ability in scenario focused design & development focused on business goals into end to end plans (e.g. scenarios, functional specs, schedules, usability, release)
• Ability to build good framework and models for prioritization, planning and execution for large projects in collaboration with stakeholders
• Passion and ability for working cross group and cross organization
• Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Experience working in Azure DevOps to deliver on plans via sprints in partnership with a team of engineers
• Strong technical aptitude with excellent visual and verbal communication skills with ability to influence business and technical decision makers
• Deep knowledge in all aspects of the software engineering and development lifecycle supporting methodologies & engineering tools
• Previous knowledge working on telemetry, data modeling, analytics, AI is an advantage.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science is preferred

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