Technical Program Manager II

Do you want to be part of the team building and managing the safety and security of the Azure cloud platform for Microsoft? Are you passionate about cloud computing, large scale distributed systems and working on bleeding edge security and safety technologies at a massive scale? Are you looking to grow your career in a team with phenomenal growth opportunities? Are you a collaborator at heart, and want to be part of a geographically and culturally diverse team?

As we drive to be the leading cloud platform in the world, Azure Core Governance & Compliance's Security and Safety team is looking for a Technical Program Manager II to define the vision, strategy, and the roadmap for Azure Services to drive customers’ adoption of Microsoft Azure by connecting our technical experience, along with our customers’ vision and challenges directly to the engineering product teams, and as a result help to ensure Azure is the most compelling solution on the market.  

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.

Required 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) of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ years of experience in security and safety practices and platform security and safety concepts, good understanding of defense-in-depth for managing enterprise security/safety.

Other Requirements:

• Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications: 

• 4+ year(s) experience in product/technical program management, and experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Familiarity with software development tools and techniques, DRI workflows and understanding of mitigation, change management flows, techniques and scenarios.
• Prior experience designing and/or building complex enterprise scale distributed systems / solutions.
• Experience with engineering practices and engaging with engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Ability to leverage telemetry and diagnostics to derive insights that add value to our program.
• Interpersonal, communication, collaboration skills & situational awareness
• Metric-driven mindset and the ability to experiment, learn, and improve.

Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 28, 2025.

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• You will help with Azure platform security and safety programs focused on getting Azure services to adhere to our security and safety standards and meet our customer, regulatory and strategic requirements.
• You will partner with various engineering teams across Azure to deliver the tools, features and capabilities necessary to meet security and safety requirements and controls as well as work on meeting sovereign operability and compliance requirements.
• Under supervision you will help coordinate cross-team efforts to drive engineering solutions to technical challenges and deliver quality solutions to committed schedules and project plans. 
• You will help define success criteria and performance metrics (OKRs, KPIs etc.) for your programs and work with your teams to track and report on execution against these regularly.
• You will help others as they design technical solutions. You will also identify risks, escalating them to senior levels when needed.
• Based on success criteria, you’ll help others develop and implement features for cross-functional projects. You’ll begin to understand how to collaborate and ensure alignment across teams.