Microsoft Looking for Principal Program Manager at United Arab Emirates Full Time

The Digital Transformation is upon us! Applications and data are moving to the cloud employees want to be productive on devices they love from locations of their choice organisations want to give seamless access to partners self-service is in and helpdesks are pass. In the middle of all these exciting changes, security breaches are getting more sophisticated by the day. The single common factor in this journey that the IT world is undertaking is… Identity.
This is your chance to join our exciting and diverse team that’s deeply engaged in these changes and challenges to help guide our customers along this transformational journey.

• Help a world-class tech enterprise secure access to sensitive designs as they work closely on the next gadget that will change the world.
• Help a humanitarian aid organisation secure login to its case management database.
• Help a group of universities from around the world set up a collaboration space where researchers can work to advance a much-needed cure.

The GTP (Get To Production) team is a part of the identity engineering division within Microsoft’s booming Cloud & Enterprise business. We work with customers from all over the world and we work directly with engineering to shape the product. The best of both worlds!
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As you take on this role, you will develop the technical expertise to earn the privilege of being a trusted advisor to IT and organisations including most Fortune 1000 companies. You will have opportunity to travel around the country and the world engaging people from all walks of life.
Your guidance will impact the thousands of employees at these organisations and the millions of people whose lives they touch every day. You will roll up your sleeves and solve deep, technical problems. You will represent our product vision, capabilities and solutions at all levels across our customers and partners. You will be meeting with CIOs and CTOs discussing the value the cloud brings, you will be discussing architecture and strategy with Security and Application architects and going into detail of everyday IT Ops.
Day to day, our Program Managers own a select set of enterprise customers and work to create clarity across the customer’s business goals and technical requirements on their journey to the cloud. We help translate these requirements into a strong technical solution based on our Azure Active Directory technology stack. Where we
identify product gaps, we then engage directly with the feature teams, participating in the design of the feature and finally in validating with the customers that the new work addressed their need. Real-time, customer-obsessed engineering. This is the new Microsoft.
Our cloud technologies are evolving at a rapid pace and we are looking for active learners who can collaborate across a diverse and global team and are happy dealing with ambiguity

• extensive experience designing, building and/or implementing software products, specifically identity and access management
• recent demonstrable experience with cloud service development, design and/or deployment in a customer-facing role
• passion for understanding things deeply, whether it’s customer requirements or product technologies
• demonstrating critical thinking and solid trouble shooting abilities

the role has a requirement for regular travel (up to 50%)