Technical Manager jobs in United States, Virginia, Reston

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 6+ years of industry experience in engineering, product management, or technical program management with an emphasis on government and industry customers that are mission focused and/or deal with sensitive and classified workloads.
• Experience bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
• Demonstrated situational awareness. You will be working closely with other product group people across Microsoft (Directors, Group Managers etc.) you will also work closely with customer leadership, engineers, and system administrators. You will have to be able to adjust your approach to the specific audience.
• Deep understanding and experience of the Intelligence and/or Security domain(s), key challenges, priorities, and stakeholders
• Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services along with demonstrated experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Proven initiative and influence with demonstrated ability to solve challenging and complex problems requiring the effort and impact of a diverse cross team.
• Experience tailoring processes and governance structures to balance rigor and consistent results while moving fast and driving innovation.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 13th 2025.

• Drive and effectively manage strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of how government customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.
• Engage colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results for expanding the market for Azure across international governments
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, marketing, compliance, finance, legal, and other Microsoft teams to translate customer demand signals into platform priorities to unblock Azure growth.
• Remove customer barriers to cloud adoption by ensuring government-relevant infrastructure, security, and identity requirements are built into Azure services to support sensitive government workloads
• Establish and drive the rhythm of business (meeting cadence), core set of stakeholders, and right sized reporting to offer rigor and transparency while still allowing the team to move fast
• Traditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines
• Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, engage Engineering teams to remove blockers.

You will be accountable for:

• Service / Product Definition – Partner with engineering teams to design architecture and integrate customer solutions that address priority customers and broad market needs. Define program goals and prioritize feature requests into feature release milestones. Define success criteria and performance metrics while managing delivery and actively identify and mitigate risks using data driven approaches.
• Service / Product Development – Drive cross functional team orchestration for complex delivery of features against the service/product roadmap. Develop, track, coordinate, and manage risk of end-to-end project delivery schedules at tactical and executive levels. Understand critical path and dependencies to hold stakeholders accountable adjusting as needed to ensure successful project delivery.
• Service / Product Performance – Identify, collect, and summarize performance metrics to derive deep insights to lead to course corrections and optimizations. Leverage customer listening, telemetry, root cause analysis to form hypothesis and make data drive recommendations to engineering teams

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