Principal Product Manager – Application Modernization (.NET & Azure) (GM/AVP – IT)

Role Purpose

Own the strategy for modernizing and scaling a portfolio of mission-critical .NET and SQL applications on Microsoft Azure. As Principal Product Manager, lead product discovery and delivery across multiple productsdefining vision and OKRs( Objectives and Key Results), shaping the roadmap, prioritizing the backlog, and orchestrating cross-functional execution to deliver measurable improvements in performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Scope & Impact

• Portfolio ownership across several products which are deployed in Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory; accountable for end-to-end outcomes.
• Sets standards for discovery, delivery, DevSecOps, and Reliability Engineering practices; mentors Senior developers and influences architecture decisions.

Product Delivery & Agile Leadership

• Serve as Product Owner across Scrumbacklog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives.
• Partner with engineering to scope MVPs, set acceptance criteria, and enforce Definition of Ready/Done; lead release trains and cutovers.
• Establish CI/CD with Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions

Architecture & Platform Modernization

• Champion upgrade paths from .NET Framework to modern .NET (e.g., .NET 8) and ASP.NET Core; adopt cloud-native patterns.
• Select landing zones per workload: Azure App Service (PaaS), Azure Functions (serverless)
• Drive API strategy (REST/gRPC), versioning, and integration via Azure API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid/Event Hubs.

Data & Database Modernization

• Lead migration and optimization of SQL Server to Azure SQL (Database/Managed Instance); ensure schema hygiene and data integrity.
• Own performance engineering: indexing, Query Store analysis, plan tuning, statistics, partitioning; caching (Azure Cache for Redis).

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

• Embed security-by-design: Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) for OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC, Managed Identity; Key Vault for secrets. Align with enterprise policies and GxP/CSV.

Requirements

Experience

• 1215 years in software/product roles; 5+ years as Product Manager/Owner for .NET/Azure platforms; prior ownership of multi-team programs.
• Demonstrated delivery of modernization programsarchitecture decisions, migration plans, release management, and measurable outcomes.

Technical Domain Skills

• .NET 6/7/8, ASP.NET Core, C#, REST/gRPC; EF Core and Dapper.
• Azure compute: App Service, Azure Functions, AKS; containers (Docker) and Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Azure SQL/SQL Server: Query Store, execution plans, indexing, statistics, partitioning; data migration and ETL patterns.
• Integration: Azure API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid/Event Hubs; webhooks and API versioning.
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps (Repos, Boards, Pipelines, Test Plans, Artifacts) and/or GitHub Actions; YAML pipelines; release orchestration.
• Identity & security: Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC; secure coding and OWASP controls.
• Performance & scaling: caching (Azure Cache for Redis), async processing, load/stress testing, capacity planning; FinOps.

Preferred

• Familiarity with GitHub Copilot and .NET Upgrade Assistant; AI-assisted modernization workflows.
• Certifications: AZ-400 (DevOps), AZ-305 (Architect), DP-300 (Azure SQL).

Key Metrics (Product Outcomes)

• Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Establish and improve benchmarks for each--Latency, throughput, error rate; SQL query performance and resource efficiency.