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Microsoft Senior Technical Program Manager - CTJ TS/SCI 
United States, Virginia 
643335193

11.06.2024


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.
  • 2+ years experience leading and managing engineering workstreams, including, planning, prioritization, backlog grooming, customer engagement, status reporting and 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:
    • 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 via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ 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).
  • Proven problem solver
  • Dependable communication skills, verbal and written, with experience communicating to multiple stakeholder groups such as engineering, customers, end-users, and executives.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with lots of context switching.
  • 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.

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Responsibilities

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Azure Air Gap and Sovereign Foundation Team and help empower customers with highly regulated workloads and critical missions. Our TPM and 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. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or technical approaches to further develop and evolve the cloud deployment and operations strategy for Azure. In this role, you will drive complex engagements that encompass multiple dimensions including, technical, programmatic, delivery, financial, compliance, regulatory and legal concerns. 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:

  • 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 how internal and external customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.
  • Traditional PM functions: cost estimation and prioritization, quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines
  • Managing engineering workstreams through Azure Dev Ops (ADO) or like engineering services tool, focused on prioritization, resource allocation, grooming, planning, trade-space allocation and customer engagement.
  • Engage colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive 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 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
  • Conduct workshops with customers to elicit requirements and provide advice on design, development, and deployment of secure applications.
  • Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, engage Engineering teams to remove blockers
  • Embody our