Principal Platform Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the Plan-of-Record (POR) and critical path across engineering, validation, manufacturing, and deployment—maintaining clear scope, milestones, exit criteria, and the integrated critical-path view.
• Run the execution operating rhythm (readiness reviews, issue triage, dependency deep-dives) that turns ambiguity into explicit owners, dates, and measurable exits.
• Drive cross-org dependency management across multiple organizations and time horizons (early definition through fleet readiness), actively deconflict plans and preventing late-stage integration surprises.
• Operate a disciplined risk/issue system with explicit mitigations, decision points, recovery plans, and confidence—protecting schedule and quality and reducing “surprises at the edges.”
• Establish and govern change control (requirements, interfaces, BOM/build plan changes) using clear decision records and impact/tradeoff framing—preserving downstream stability while sustaining engineering velocity.
• Drive evidence-based milestone exits by aligning stakeholders on measurable readiness criteria and ensuring exits are supported by data/artifacts—not assumptions.
• Partner with global manufacturing and supply chain to make plans production-capable: build strategy, material readiness, quality gates, and ramp readiness aligned to engineering/validation exits.
• Partner with deployment and operations—and communicate to exec stakeholders to land fleet readiness (serviceability, diagnostics/telemetry, operational workflows) and drive timely decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and escalation paths.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience?
• 3+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Other: 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.
• Preferred Qualifications: 12+ years of technical program management or project management experience or a technical role with systems engineering experience, preferably in Cloud server design, accelerators, Networking solutions, FW & SW development and deployment, and systems solutions from cradle to grave.
• 6+ years of experience in managing cross-functional and / or cross-team projects, responsible for critical systems and operations in a matrix organization.
• Experience with hardware, firmware & software and complex system design, test and integration.
• Knowledge of high-volume server design and manufacturing is desired.
• Knowledge about datacenters & operation at scale.