Senior Technical Program Manager - CTJ - SCI

Microsoft • Reston, VA

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About The Position

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Cloud + AI Silver Team, a group dedicated to enabling secure and seamless customer deployments in highly regulated, air-gapped environments. In this role, you will collaborate closely with world-class engineers to deliver innovative solutions that bring a broad set of Azure services to internal and external customers operating in the most secure and compliance-driven industries.
You will play a pivotal role in driving customer success by orchestrating complex technical programs, ensuring deployment excellence, and shaping experiences that meet stringent security and regulatory requirements. This is an opportunity to influence mission-critical projects and help customers unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s cloud technologies in environments where trust and security are paramount.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• 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.
• Security Clearance Requirements Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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 Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government 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 role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 10+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 10+ year(s) experience leading and managing customer facing projects.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with customers and partners to understand their business needs and priorities.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Drive and effectively manage strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams.
• Interface with customers and/or internal stakeholders to gain necessary information to align project timelines, provide updates, and adapt plans to changing goals.
• Communicate effectively to keep all the stakeholders (internal Microsoft & customer) informed of the progress of the project, issues, blockers, successes, and impact to drive adoption and realize value.
• Manage engineering projects through Azure Dev Ops (ADO) or like engineering services tool, focused on prioritization, planning, scheduling, risk management, quality control and effective and efficient decision making for customer projects.
• Understand the technical challenges, constraints and blockers faced by customers and provide recommendations for solving these challenges by suggesting multiple solutions and workarounds along with pros and cons for each approach, to enable the customer / partner team to successfully deploy solutions
• Develop a deep understanding of how internal and external customers use Azure to drive adoption and refine and iterate program processes, tools, and strategies based on data and feedback.
• Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices and partner with engineering, compliance, commerce, legal, and other Microsoft teams to gather feedback and translate customer demand signals into platform priorities to improve or unblock Azure solutions.
• Embody our culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees