Microsoft Technical Program Manager II - CTJ TS/SCI 

United States, Washington 

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This includes ensuring that the required infrastructure is deployed on time to meet customer demand while continuously improving our processes. The ideal candidate has a robust Technical Program Management background in networking, servers, application development, and/or security as well as demonstrated expertise in communication.

You will work with many leaders across the company to improve our processes and help us scale the Sovereign Cloud offerings across all engineering groups. This will be an IC (Individual Contributor) role and will require a dynamic personality who can work successfully in a diverse environment that is filled with ambiguity.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) 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:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security 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:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• 1+ year data analysis skills leveraging T-SQL, Kusto, and/or PowerApps.
• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills.
• Six Sigma certification.
• PMP certification.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Lead virtual teams to deliver infrastructure predictably based on our customer needs.

• Create methods and processes to collect critical data about deployments, progress, and dependencies.

• Partner with the Engineering teams to identify automation opportunities that will increase the capability to deliver against critical milestones for deployments.

• Partner upstream with the Capacity Planning and our internal Capacity Management teams.

• Partner with Planning teams to understand the demand and challenges of deployments to anticipate and solve.

• Develop an understanding of hardware types or networks being deployed and work with the supply chain organization to resolve issues.

• Partner with process and reporting teams to develop actionable dashboards that will help drive daily and weekly triage of blockers.

• Own metrics and analytics that show the performance against goals.

• Be proactive in identifying continuous improvement areas.

• Identify program and process improvements to help deliver better predictability across all cloud offerings.

• Exceptional written communication and presentation skills.

• Provide Engineering teams with business capabilities/use cases/scenarios to articulate clear business requirements, aligned to our vision.

• Build & maintain collaborative relationships and trusted partnerships across the Azure landscape.