Principal Technical Program Management - CTJ - TS/SCI

Azure 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 Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) in the Cloud+

Artifical intelligence (AI) Silver Team. This team is 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.

This role will focus on establishing the Program Management Office (PMO) in a more traditional sense focused on the business.  You will partner deeply across Engineering, Microsoft Federal Sales teams, and our business partners like Finance, Legal, and Compliance to ensure that our sales strategies align to engineering realities and that our capture activities are driving material outcomes for our customers and our business.  This role will navigate between the engineering and sales teams ensuring that our engineering teams and leadership understand and mitigate any risk associated with our capture strategy as we grow this business. You will accomplish this by 1) understanding customer landscape, pipeline, and vignettes, 2) playing a general contractor (GC) role across key stakeholder teams to include MsFed Sales, Finance, and Azure to drive broad awareness and alignment on the business and capture strategies through detailed reporting, and 3) help shape and execute Air Gap Cloud (AGC) capture strategies specific to partners, products, and opportunities to realize our business goals.

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

In this role you will help empower customers with highly regulated workloads and critical missions.  Our Progam Management (PM) team leads efforts such as designing product architecture and solutions to complex technical needs, identifying trends in product quality and performance to define or change existing features; prioritizing and delivering on the roadmap; managing project schedules and release plans; monitoring product/service performance and driving continuous improvement in quality, profitability, supportability and delivery.  In this role you will be responsible for the following types of activities:

• Drive and effectively manage strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams.
• 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.
• Establish 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 fast
  Traditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines
• Business Program Planning and Design – Understand and model business landscape to include customer, partner, and competition trends and forecasts to drive business priorities and strategies including new programs, capture, investment.
• Business Program Excellence and Execution – Sets standards for and executes communication strategies, leads financial focused rhythm of business to evangelize complex, cross-functional programs, ensure awareness and informed decision making at appropriate levels.
• Business Program Management – S