Program Manager - Microsoft Corporation (New)

Job Description:

Job Title:  Program Manager /Senior Program Manager

Position Description:

The RXP Eventing team, which is part of the foundation of the Relationship Experience Division (RXD) organization, develops components, services and tools that enable business users and applications to easily define and listen to events and delivery of notifications in the enterprise. It enables data driven subscriptions, row level and conditional subscriptions, correlations, content based routing, integrated reporting and supports master data syndication services scenarios.

Core Elements of the Job
Program Manager is an Individual Contributor role encompassing program delivery and technical depth in a matrix organization. On a tactical basis, this position is responsible for working with Business partners; understanding requirements, creating functional specifications for the business needs, prioritize the requirements, plan for delivering the project in a timely manner with available resources, and manage the project till delivery and beyond.  The following is also needed:

1.        Know how to drive SDLC, ITLC, Smart Dash, MSApps

2.        Attended PMP training (PMP certified even better)

3.        Trained on Scenario Focused Engineering

4.        Ability to form and drive a feature team. 

5.        Hold weekly meetings, drive issues and risks.

6.        Ability to create clarity via specs / requirements.

7.        Ability to establish and drive exit criteria

For the strategic part, this role would be responsible for creating future state project roadmap, provide leadership to the team, create business cases for budgeting, enhance the project capabilities by continuous improvements & innovation, develop strong partnership with business and other groups, globally.
Other ongoing tasks would also include ensuring communications are seamless, escalations, risks and issues are well managed; interact with senior management as needed.

Technical skills:

Understanding on how the following works

·         WCF Services

·         Data Contracts

·         HTML

·         XML

·         Messaging

·         Enterprise Patterns

·         Webstore

·         BizTalk

Soft skills:
 *Excellent communication, client relationship skills, and customer experience focus

* Demonstrated passion for quality and attention to detail

* Effective time management in complex situations
* Excellent interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships across groups and all management levels
* * Ability to effectively deal with ambiguous situations
* Ability to effectively communicate using multiple medias to present ideas

* Ability to influence without authority

Other helpful skills for this position include:
* Ability and willingness to work in a team environment and report daily, weekly, and monthly status
* High degree of professionalism, especially when faced with critical and intense situations
* BA/BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, engineering or a related field; MBA preferred

Job Location
This position is based in Hyderabad, India and will report to Principal Group PM. The job requires minimal travel, primarily to participate in planning and review discussions with global teams.

Ideal Candidate
This person would have overall 10 years of experience with a minimum of 5 years hands on experience in Project Management and 5 years of experience Technical analysis or Solution Development.
This person would excel in written and verbal communications, would have a good strategic insight while handing tactical day to day tasks. Proven ability in working across the org, a self-starter, who can deal with ambiguity, maintains focus, drives to clarity and provides innovative solutions
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and deliver results in a matrix organization.
Proven ability to manage multiple tasks to schedule and collaborate across multiple groups.
Should be able to work independently with minimal supervision.