Senior Lease Administration Lead

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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. You can help us achieve our mission.

Every company is looking to change how they use digital technology to fundamentally reimagine how they empower their employees, engage customers, optimize their operations and change the very core of their products and services. Microsoft is positioned to become the strategic digital transformation platform and partner of choice. Microsoft will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. Microsoft is an active acquirer and has executed well over 100 acquisitions in the past 10 years, including Github, LinkedIn, Skype, Mojang (Minecraft) and most recently, Nuance.

Are you interested in being part of a highly motivated global portfolio team supporting a Data Center Portfolio in one of the world’s largest technology companies in the World? Our work underpins Microsoft Cloud Operations & Innovation team growth and expansion into new markets and diverse customer requirements.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Lease Administration Lead for delivering expert Lease Administration support across Microsoft’s global data center portfolio. The position ensures contractual compliance, financial accuracy, and risk mitigation across complex, mission‑critical lease agreements while partnering closely with Portfolio Management, Finance, Legal, Engineering, and external Lessors to support scalable global operations.

The Senior Lease Administration Lead owns day‑to‑day execution of lease administration activities, including but not limited to interpretation and application of lease terms, management of critical dates and obligations, validation of financial and operational requirements, and stewardship of lease data used to inform portfolio decisions. Acting as a key participant in business rhythms, this role provides subject‑matter expertise, proactive issue identification, process and program development, and solution‑oriented recommendations to support operational continuity and portfolio growth.

In addition to execution, this role drives continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to standardize processes, reducing manual effort, and improve data quality across the lease administration lifecycle. The role actively explores and applies automation, AI, and advanced analytics capabilities to enhance efficiency, improve compliance monitoring, and enable data‑driven insights for stakeholders. This includes partnering with cross‑functional teams to modernize tools, workflows, and reporting that support lease governance at scale.

This position operates as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex lease matters, supports outsourced delivery partners through clear requirements and quality oversight, and collaborates across internal and external stakeholders to ensure Microsoft meets its contractual, regulatory, and operational obligations across a rapidly evolving global data center portfolio.

• Review, administer, and govern lease‑related documentation, ensuring accurate abstraction, validation, and maintenance of critical lease data within Global Portfolio Management systems.
• Own the tracking and management of all leases, amendments, contracts, and associated documentation across the portfolio, maintaining a complete and auditable system of record.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve standardized procedures, controls, and systems that streamline Global Portfolio Management and lease administration operations at scale.
• Operate as a Subject Matter Expert on lease administration tools, processes, and governance models to drive consistency, standardization, and operational rigor across the organization.
• Provide programmatic leadership and input on lease compliance, risk management, and control effectiveness across strategic partnerships and the full contract base.
• Enable innovative, data‑driven solutions by applying deep lease administration expertise, process optimization, and tooling to deliver business priorities and operational efficiencies.
• Establish and execute a results‑oriented, analytics‑driven approach to strategic asset and lease management, identifying opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, and continuous improvement.
• Project manage cross‑functional initiatives with clearly defined, time‑bound deliverables, ensuring alignment, accountability, and measurable outcomes.