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The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Engineering is Microsoft’s security-first organization. We build and operate products that protect Microsoft and its customers from the world’s most advanced threats. Our teams focus on graph intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and automation, always working to stay ahead of attackers and drive innovation in cyber defense. Through the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), security is the top priority for every engineer and leader at Microsoft.

Our mission is to create a safer world by defending Microsoft and our customers against cybersecurity threats, earning customer trust, driving innovation, and collaborating with industry partners to strengthen collective defense. We operate at a massive scale, safeguarding the world’s largest productivity suite and cloud platforms. Our organization is accountable for risk management, incident response, and advancing security strategy across the company. Teams such as Security Response, Identity and Security Operations, and Security Intelligence and Engineering all play important roles in maintaining a robust risk framework, operational rigor, and a culture of continuous improvement.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager in CISO Engineering, you will lead initiatives that improve how our engineering teams operate. This includes areas like Live Site, Weekly Engineering Reviews (WER), sovereign clouds, and developer efficiency (DevOps Research and Assessment - DORA). You will work across many areas to help drive alignment, collaboration, and efficiency across the organization, making our engineers happier and more productive while supporting our mission to keep Microsoft and its customers secure.

If you are ready to help build a secure, resilient, and innovative engineering organization, apply now and join us in our mission to keep Microsoft and the world safe.

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

+ Drive strategic programs to accelerate engineering excellence, scalability, and operational rigor.

+ Champion innovation by leveraging graph intelligence, AI, and automation to build resilient, secure systems by driving effective use of engineering tools, including Azure DevOps, to streamline workflows and enhance team productivity.

+ Optimize engineering operations, improve Live Site reliability, workflow efficiency, and developer happiness.

+ Foster collaboration and alignment across engineering teams, facilitating leading practices and continuous improvement.

+ Ensure all programs and processes support our security-first mission and organizational priorities.

+ Define and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), deliver clear reporting to leadership, and drive ongoing improvements.

Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

+ 2+ years of experience hands-on experience working with DevOps processes and practices in a large-scale engineering environment.

+ 2+ years of experience proficiency with engineering tools such as Azure DevOps for managing workflows, pipelines, and team collaboration.

+ 2+ years of experience experience using data products like Power BI and Kusto to analyze information, build dashboards, and support decision making.

Prefered Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s Degree OR 8+ years' experience in engineering, technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

+ 6+ years' experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

+ 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

+ Proven ability to operate and influence teams in a complex, matrixed organization.

+ Demostrated ability to bring clarity to ambiguity by defining success metrics, aligning stakeholders, and driving cross-functional execution.

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.

+ **Citizenship Verification** **:** This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

+ This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15, 2025.

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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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .