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# Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE

- **Company:** Microsoft
- **Location:** UK
- **Salary:** £93,500.0 - £161,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Information Engineering, Github, Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Visual Studio Online
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/22B3842A963F4C93B714909A6C09F432/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree Or equivalent experience
 * Several years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
 * Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

 * Several years of experience in customer-facing technical roles (e.g., consulting, solutions engineering, field engineering, or similar).
 * Experience with AI/ML technologies, cloud architecture, data engineering, and using AI tools and workflows in creating software engineering artifacts.

#FDE

#MicrosoftFrontierCompany

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 93,500.00 - £ 161,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

## Description

* Embed with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs with high autonomy, aligning business needs with engineering solutions across AI, cloud, and data. Take ownership of the customer journey end-to-end, from problem definition through co-engineering delivery to measurable business outcomes.
 * Apply AI assisted engineering practices as a daily operating mode: use AI tools across the full software development lifecycle to accelerate requirements-to-specs, generate high-quality engineering artifacts from customer context, and drive continuous flow of value from business need to production.
 * Operate fluently in engineering tooling (e.g., VS Code, GitHub, AI agents) as primary work surfaces for planning, documentation, and technical program leadership. Validate AI-generated outputs with domain expertise to maintain quality at speed.
 * Navigate ambiguity in customer environments with self-direction and high ownership. Make technical and program decisions with incomplete information, proactively identify opportunities and manage risks, providing data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.
 * Champion and cultivate reusable solution patterns, open-source assets, and engineering playbooks that scale impact beyond individual engagements. Contribute to the broader engineering community through knowledge sharing and best practices.
 * Partner with multi-disciplinary engineering teams (software engineers, data scientists, designers) to evaluate, design, and deliver AI-powered cloud solutions side-by-side with customer engineers. Give key stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks and tradeoffs.
 * Embodies our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) .


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