About the Group
BIE, stands for Business Intelligence Engineering, is part of MS IT India. BIE caters to Business Intelligence needs of various Business groups within Microsoft such as Sales and Marketing, Partners, and Services. BIE delivers enterprise reporting applications which provide decision making capabilities to MS leadership based on “data”.
Focus in BIE is around acquiring data from different sources across the organization, collate them into data warehouses which in turn help provide meaning to a vast repository of data that resides at different places across the org. BIE is also focused on enterprise data warehousing (EDW) and building/enhancing platform capabilities to improve the acquisition, integration & distribution process of the vast enterprise data.
BIE is highly committed to its customers, partners and employees realize their full potential.
Core Elements of the Job
Technical Program Manager with BIE is an Individual Contributor role encompassing program delivery and technical depth in a matrix organization.
Key job functions performed by a program manager in BIE include delivering the various project releases as laid out by the book of work for a fiscal (program delivery) and Designing features by analyzing the Business requirements. Additional activities include working on future state roadmap, business communication, innovation work (POCs), etc.
As people who worked in BI would know, this space requires familiarity with data, understanding the relationship between data stored across different formats - be it relational tables, flat files, etc. By performing data analysis, the program manager designs features based on business requirements and presents them in the FSD docs. Some of the PM tasks include creating logical dimensional models for the data marts, surfacing the information in reports, dashboards, scorecards, portals, etc thus enabling business to make decisions using this knowledge.
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 till GM level for presentations as required.
Job Location
This position is based in Hyderabad, India and will report to a Lead PM. The job requires minimal travel, primarily to participate in planning and review discussions with team(s) in USA.
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.
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