Microsoft Senior Technical Program Manager - CTJ Top Secret 

United States, Virginia 

13143792

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • Or equivalent experience
• 2+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ years experience in Cyber analytics

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 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 via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred 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
• Ability to leverage telemetry and diagnostics to derive insights that add value to our operations.
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trends quickly
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity.
• Experience bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
• Proven Communication Skills and 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 July 1, 2024.

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Program Manager (PM) to join the Azure Air Gap and Sovereign Foundation Team and help empower customers with highly regulated workloads and critical missions. Product Management team leads efforts such as designing product architecture and solutions to complex technical needs, identifying trends in product quality and performance to define or change existing features; prioritizing and delivering on the roadmap; managing project schedules and release plans; monitoring product/service performance and driving continuous improvement in quality, profitability, supportability and delivery. In this role, you will also have opportunities to act as technical advisor with customers to evangelize products, solicit feedback, and support field sellers where needed. In this role you will be responsible for the following types of activities:

• Identify and work to resolution to development, research of high value AEP projects (deliverables: assessment products, training, and mitigation efforts with teams)
• Cyber Security Incident Analysis and research.
• Build a program for hardware supply chain analysis and reporting.
• Analyze the cyber activities on anomalies employees might come across.
• Plan and manage Monthly Awareness meeting with all stakeholders and leadership.
• Create Security Analysis Reports that contain Comprehensive assessments of security incidents, highlighting potential intelligence involvement and sophisticated cyber threats.
• Create and manage Threat Intelligence Briefs which contain Regular updates on emerging threats, based on real-time data analysis and intelligence gathering.
• Create and manage a Best Practices Guide containing strategies and tactics for mitigating identified threats.
• Partner with the National Security Team CI team, MSRC, DSR, CELA and engineering groups on threat reporting
• Drive and effectively manage projects with leadership visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams for personnel metrics, tooling and collaboration.
• Develop a deep understanding of how government customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, marketing, compliance, finance, legal, and other Microsoft teams to translate customer demand signals into platform priorities to unblock Azure growth.
• Traditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines.

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