Technical Program Manager II

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Are you interested in working for on cutting-edge cloud security products? Would you like to be part of one of the world’s most advanced cyber-security solutions and protect millions of computers from thousands of active attack attempts, every month?  Look no further than the Microsoft Defender engineering team. You will be building and delivering cloud solutions to meet the scale that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection within highly sensitive and secure government environments. The Microsoft Defender team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers.  

We are looking for a Technical program manager II to provide leadership, direction, and accountability for cloud buildout, service validation, delivery optimization and resource planning. 

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 andcollaborate 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) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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 Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. 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 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 3+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with program management for cloud computing, online services, enterprise software development, engineering and/or operations at scale. 
• Understanding of certification requirements and translating into actionable engineering plans
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), and/or PMP (Project Management Professional) are preferred but not required.
• Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists 
• Developing Leadership skills: Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills.

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.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 27, 2025.

You will help conduct region analysis and orchestrate deployment of our production services. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, meet performance SLAs, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

Responsibilities –

• Planning & Execution Excellence: Partner with the PM team to help facilitate the rhythm of business (Rob) for the team, including regular staff meetings, post-incident response reviews, and semester planning.
• Communications: Enhance employee engagement by producing written and visual communication assets that elicit employee engagement through impactful internal messaging with a consistent voice and visual content for team meetings and other events.
• Region Buildout: Work closely with our various product groups to enable delivery of their products into our Air Gap and Sovereign cloud environments. Focus will be on execution of product buildout timelines, providing status updates on product buildout to various levels of leadership, working through blockers and risk areas with our internal and external partners, and driving product through the full buildout lifecycle process.
• Compliance & Accreditation: Drive our services through the defined Government and Microsoft service accreditation process.
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