Principal Technical Program Manager
About the role
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 of 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 Microsoft Fabric, the Platform team builds and operates the unified foundation that brings together all Fabric workloads into a single, cohesive experience. The platform provides shared infrastructure, governance, security, and a unified data model that enables customers to manage their entire data estate in one place. This team is central to delivering Fabric as a complete, end-to-end intelligence platform. Fabric Platform Experiences owns the common UX and Platform-level experiences that unify Microsoft Fabric across workloads, helping business users, developers and enterprises discover, secure, govern, manage, and use Fabric as a cohesive end-to-end data and AI platform. Within Microsoft Fabric, the Platform Experiences team is hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-organizational programs that improve platform readiness and maturity, execution predictability, feature health, live-site health, and operational efficiency. The Principal Technical Program Manager will build the mechanisms, operating rhythms, tooling, and accountability that turn organizational priorities, partner needs, and product and service health signals into prioritized plans, measurable outcomes, and sustained improvement. The role will drive an integrated readiness program across platform and workload teams. This includes clarifying scenarios and success criteria, aligning dependencies, tracking infrastructure and test readiness, identifying risks, and helping teams move from fragmented status reporting to evidence-based execution and decision-making. This is a role requiring technical depth, executive communication, and the ability to lead across organizational boundaries without relying on direct authority. The Principal Technical Program Manager will work closely with engineering, product management, and partner teams to ensure that strategic programs deliver reliable and measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, multi-team initiatives involving technical dependencies, operational requirements, and cross-organizational coordination.
- Establish shared definitions of readiness, health, quality, risk, and completion across participating teams.