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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.

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Azure 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 secure cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.

We are hiring for a motivated Senior Technical Program Manager to lead on proactive security and drive cross team partnerships for security assurance programs.. In this role, you will advance security by working with Security Engineers, Program and Product Managers, Developers, and Business Leaders to drive security assurance programs for services across Azure. You will partner with engineering teams, understand and analyze cloud service architecture and drive security reviews, threat modeling , defining and measuring security promises, integrating security findings to internal governance and compliance framework to ensure timely remediation and drive continue security improvements.

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.

Responsibilities

+ Build relationships with internal teams, supporting security reviews across multiple product areas.

+ Collaborate with security partners to plan, kick-off, complete, and report security reviews and their security outcomes.

+ Define success criteria and performance metrics for the security review program in partnership with Engineering, TPM, and security team partners to ensure necessary data is developed and accessible.

+ Collaborate with engineering leaders to integrate features into product development and planning cycles. Partner closely with governance programs to align security outcomes for product teams.

+ Develop and drive performance targets by collaborating with product teams, ensuring work is tracked, coordinated, communicated, and delivered within defined timelines.

+ Enhance customer experience for product teams by providing comprehensive documentation, monitoring engagement, reporting progress, and delivering valuable insights.

+ Evangelize security investments and measure progress across the board by building metrics and reporting structures. Display passion for security assurance and protecting customers.

+ Create an inclusive work environment where every team member can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and the team can deliver their best work as a result.

+ Embody our culture and values

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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

+ OR equivalent experience.

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

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

+ Understand security fundamentals such as SDL, Threat Modelling, vulnerabilities assessment, and the ability to assess risk and collaborate with engineering teams to develop remediation plans.

+ Experience working on reporting, bug tracking, triaging, and SCRUMs. Knowledge of encryption, security protocols, software communication APIs, and operating systems including Linux and Windows.

+ Technical understanding of a broad set of technologies and the ability to learn new information at a rapid pace specially security domain knowledge.

+ Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make data-driven decisions. Willingness to learn, improve, and demonstrate persistence despite setbacks.

+ 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:

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 24 ,2025.

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) .