Job Posting: Team System + BI expert wanted

Siddharth Bhatia, a group program manager on the Visual Studio Team System team, is looking for someone to help make the data in Team Foundation Server easier to consume. This will help software teams answer everyday questions which drive the decisions they make about their projects. There is a lot of exciting work to do in this area and I think Siddharth would be a great guy to work for, so I wanted to help get the word out about this opportunity. If you are interested, or if you know anybody who is, please email a resume to sbhatia AT microsoft DOT com. Here are the details:

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I’m looking for someone who can take a large-scale warehouse that is filled with information that we work with everyday: bugs, features, tasks, changesets, test cases, test results and builds and make it really easy for customers to get answers to the questions we ask everyday like “Is my project on track?”, “What’s the quality of my software?” and “Are we ready to ship?”

Job Title: Program Manager

Hiring Manager: Siddharth Bhatia

Group: Visual Studio Team System

Req #: 164376

Location: Redmond

Did you know that 32% of all software projects are cancelled, 60% are considered failures by the organizations that initiated them, and nine out of ten come in late? On March 17th 2006, Microsoft set out to fix this when it released Team Foundation Server (TFS) - the hub of the Visual Studio Team System.

With TFS, customers can manage all the artifacts of a software development project including the work items (bugs, features & scenarios), source code, automated builds, documents and reports in a fully integrated way. “Having better information is leading to better decisions. It is just a far more productive development environment”, noted one customer.

The TFS Data Warehouse stores the relationships and all the changes that the team makes during software development. SQL Server Reporting Services and MS Excel provide front-ends to the data to help everyone involved in software development make better decisions.

We are looking for a Program Manager with a burning passion in the relational database and SQL Analysis Services space. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end solution including the customer scenarios, the reporting infrastructure, the database schemas and the OLAP cube. You will define the data that lives in the warehouse, how it gets there and help make it easy to answer the following:
· For IT leaders - are projects meeting the business requirements and are they on time?
· For technology managers - what is the quality of the software?
· For individual contributors - what is my work and what are its dependencies?
· For executives - are we compliant with regulatory initiatives like SOX?
You will own the strategic vision for the evolution of the TFS reporting platform and how to align effectively with the specific processes in a team.

You should enjoy solving hard problems and up to speed with SQL Server 2005, Analysis Services and Reporting Services technologies. A minimum of 5 years of experience in program management and proficiencies in data warehouse design is required.