Principal Technical Program Manager - CTJ - Poly

Are you passionate about working in an incredibly fast paced environment and working on problems that don't have a defined solution? Do you have experience in the cloud working to deliver solutions to our customers' most challenging problems? Do you thrive in challenging environments where you can make a direct and lasting business impact? If so, please read on... Within the Mission Engineering group of Microsoft's Strategic Missions and Technologies business unit, we're looking for an individual contributor to build and oversee our requirements testing and validation processes to deliver further agility and quality in our Government cloud Mission Infrastructure Products line.

Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft's history and is the foundation of Microsoft's Cloud Services. Continuing this success, Azure has expanded into the Government space with its mission-critical cloud, delivering breakthrough innovation, mission relevant capability, and world-class security to our Government customers and their partners. With world-class security, protection, and compliance, agencies can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence, with cloud solutions ranging from edge, to hybrid, and to hyper-scale environments. Azure Government enables flexibility and agility in cloud solutions for our Government customers, providing innovation, advanced analytics, and an open application platform, that provide the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy and manage Intelligent Edge and Intelligent Cloud solutions.

As we build to be the leading and most capable cloud platform in the world, Mission Engineering's Sensitive Mission Platform Team is hiring a proven Principal Technical Program Manager (PM) and engineering leader to contribute to our mission requirements team and to build and lead the associated testing, validation, and quality engineering processes. These processes are essential to maintaining quality standards, validating mission needs are met by our Air Gapped Cloud products, and also key to identifying future feature and product development requirements in next horizon releases. The PM will be a key player in advancing Azure Government's mission platform integration, engineering planning and development processes to meet the most challenging mission set in the National Security vertical. The PM will work alongside other product managers, program managers, engineers and architects that are building the Mission Infrastructure Products ecosystem, building and delivering some of the most advanced cloud capabilities within Defense & Intelligence.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively?impact?our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Senior member of an established program management office and program team with responsibility for engineering product influence, market demand signals, and indirect revenue goals and attainment (no direct sales quota) working with product managers and sales leaders.

• Act as the voice of the customer by driving awareness of existing feedback, insights, and resources with internal teams to add and prioritize products and solutions.

• Advises internal product teams on customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs) and leverages these insights and existing plans to map secure technical solutions with internal engineering teams as well as customers and partners.

• Demonstrates complex concepts and proves the capability of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with customer and partners, takes feedback to the development teams building new, innovative products.

• Works to drive specific domain policy and customer requirements into broader commercially available products through engineering design documentation and senior level engagements.

• Identifies issues and advises customers/partners to operate and optimize performance in accordance with Microsoft best practices.

• Applies methodology and governance to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while ensuring excellence in contributions to design and/or delivery of solutions. Adheres to quality assurance standards and calculates risks while ensuring excellence in the design and/or delivery of solutions. Leverages standard tools to ensure accurate opportunity and milestone execution and pipeline hygiene.

• Provide input for data driven decision-making by synthesizing masses of customer data and market research, draw insights, answers hard questions, and guides actions

• Provides input into the development, prioritization, and execution of engineering solutions in support of the mission for Microsoft Azure U.S. government cloud regions. Responsible for engineering input for consideration as to the development products by providing specialty expertise in engineering, DoD and Intelligence Communicty (IC) mission systems, and supporting government policies.

Other

• Embody our Culture (~~~) and Values (~~~)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

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

• OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years 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 a 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 a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Seeking a chief engineer, within Microsoft Strategic Mission Technology - Mission Engineering, with proven experience directing large-scale, mission-critical information systems.

• Experience with the generation and management of compartmentalized requirements of as-a-Service aspects of commercial cloud technologies for use in multi-domain & multi-level security solutions

• Knowledge and experience working on complex military command and control systems.

• Generation of technical documentation to assist with secure software development strategies, datacenter design, administrative WAN buildout, and ground system architectures

• Development and maintenance of quantitative success criteria and product readiness levels for as a Service capabilities.

• Prior Cloud Service Provider (CSP) relationships featuring the development of proof of concepts for compartmentalized communities

• Experience with the following:

• Platforms: Azure, AWS, Windows, Linux, RedHat OpenStack, Docker

• Tools: Nessus, Splunk, Elastic, Kubernetes, Fortify, Nexus, Git, Terraform

• Languages: Java, C++, Python

• Domain Specific: working knowledge of the JSIG and multi-level security platforms

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (~~~) .