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Azure is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services and is expanding our footprint in the Government space with our mission-critical cloud, delivering breakthrough innovation and security to government customers and their partners. With world-class security, protection, and compliance, agencies can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence, in a consistent hybrid environment designed for flexibility and scale. Azure Government enables innovation with deeply integrated cloud services, advanced analytics, and an open application platform, that provides the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy and manage intelligent solutions. Government customers can leverage the vast network of Microsoft’s technology partners and diverse marketplace offerings, to advance their mission and serve their citizens.

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) in the CloudArtifical intelligence (AI) Silver Team. This team is responsible for deploying and operating services within an air gapped environment, including the infrastructure for collaboration.  In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries.

This role will focus on establishing the Program Management Office (PMO) in a more traditional sense focused on the business. You will partner deeply across Engineering, Microsoft Federal Sales teams, and our business partners like Finance, Legal, and Compliance to ensure that our sales strategies align to engineering realities and that our capture activities are driving material outcomes for our customers and our business. This role will navigate between the engineering and sales teams ensuring that our engineering teams and leadership understand and mitigate any risk associated with our capture strategy as we grow this business. You will accomplish this by 1) understanding customer landscape, pipeline, and vignettes, 2) playing a general contractor (GC) role across key stakeholder teams to include MsFed Sales, Finance, and Azure to drive broad awareness and alignment on the business and capture strategies through detailed reporting, and 3) help shape and execute Air Gap Cloud (AGC) capture strategies specific to partners, products, and opportunities to realize our business goals.

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. 

Responsibilities

In this role you will help empower customers with highly regulated workloads and critical missions. Our Progam Management (PM) 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 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.

• 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.

• 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 fastTraditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines

• Business Program Planning and Design – Understand and model business landscape to include customer, partner, and competition trends and forecasts to drive business priorities and strategies including new programs, capture, investment.

• Business Program Excellence and Execution – Sets standards for and executes communication strategies, leads financial focused rhythm of business to evangelize complex, cross-functional programs, ensure awareness and informed decision making at appropriate levels.

• Business Program Management – Single point of contact for a large portfolio of projects leading cross-functional teams in executing against clear objectives to drive business outcomes and manage risk.

• Business Program Evaluation and Improvement – Leads monthly business review, cost-benefit analysis ensuring programs align to business objectives.

• Embody ourCulture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) andValues (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• Or equivalent experience

• 3+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 4+ years people management experience.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in , program management offices (PMO), financial reporting, compliance, opportunity capture with an emphasis on government and industry customers that are mission focused and/or deal with sensitive and classified workloads

• Knowledge of government customer base and defense industrial base partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs and capture contracts

• Deep understanding and experience of the Intelligence and/or DoD customers to include key challenges, priorities, and stakeholders

• Proven initiative and influence with demonstrated ability to solve challenging and complex problems and to course correct projects at risk

• Experience tailoring processes and governance structures to balance rigor and consistent results while moving fast and driving innovation.

• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity

• 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.

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 1, 2024.

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