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Technical Program Manager II - TS/SCI
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Virginia, Reston | |
 Sep 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure 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 Technical Program Manager II in the Cloud+AI Silver and Sovereign Team. This team will be 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. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.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.
ResponsibilitiesDrive and effectively manage strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams.Develop a deep understanding of how government customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.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.Remove customer barriers to cloud adoption by ensuring government-relevant infrastructure, security, and identity requirements are built into Azure services to support sensitive government workloadsEstablish 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, working with key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlinesConduct workshops with customers to elicit requirements and provide advice on design, development, and deployment of secure applications.Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, engage Engineering teams to remove blockers. You will be accountable for:Analysis of Customer and Market Signals - Partner with sales team to engage customers to understand mission workloads to develop solutions to address business, program, customer needs, and/or market opportunities. Make informed prioritization recommendations based on customer demand signals and market trends to ensure return on investment with alignment to Microsoft strategy. Collaborate with key stakeholders others to ensure solutions satisfy customer requirements and drive greatest value to the business.Service / Product Definition - Partner with engineering teams to design architecture and integrate customer solutions that address priority customers and broad market needs. Define program goals and prioritize feature requests into feature release milestones. Define success criteria and performance metrics while managing delivery and actively identify and mitigate risks using data driven approaches.Service / Product Development - Drive cross functional team orchestration for complex delivery of features against the service/product roadmap. Develop, track, coordinate, and manage risk of end-to-end project delivery schedules at tactical and executive levels. Understand critical path and dependencies to hold stakeholders accountable adjusting as needed to ensure successful project delivery.Service / Product Performance - Identify, collect, and summarize performance metrics to derive deep insights to lead to course corrections and optimizations. Leverage customer listening, telemetryEmbody our culture and values. | |