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Microsoft Corporation Senior Technical Program Manager - CTJ - Poly in Reston, Virginia
Are you passionate about working in an incredibly fast paced environment and working on problems that don’t have a defined solution? Do you have experience in the cloud working to deliver solutions to our customers’ most challenging problems? Do you thrive in challenging environments where you can make a direct and lasting business impact? If so, please read on… Within the Mission Engineering group of Microsoft’s Strategic Missions and Technologies business unit, we’re looking for an individual contributor to build and oversee our requirements testing and validation processes to deliver further agility and quality in our Government cloud Mission Infrastructure Products line.
Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services. Continuing this success, Azure has expanded into the Government space with its mission-critical cloud, delivering breakthrough innovation, mission relevant capability, and world-class security to our Government customers and their partners. With world-class security, protection, and compliance, agencies can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence, with cloud solutions ranging from edge, to hybrid, and to hyper-scale environments. Azure Government enables flexibility and agility in cloud solutions for our Government customers, providing innovation, advanced analytics, and an open application platform, that provide the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy and manage Intelligent Edge and Intelligent Cloud solutions.
As we build to be the leading and most capable cloud platform in the world, Mission Engineering’s Sensitive Mission Platform Team is hiring a proven Senior (Sr.) Technical Product Manager (PM) and engineering leader to contribute to our mission requirements team and to build and lead the associated testing, validation, and quality engineering processes. These processes are essential to maintaining quality standards, validating mission needs are met by our Air Gapped Cloud products, and also key to identifying future feature and product development requirements in next horizon releases. The PM will be a key player in advancing Azure Government’s mission platform integration, engineering planning and development processes to meet the most challenging mission set in the National Security vertical. The PM will work alongside other product managers, program managers, engineers and architects that are building the Mission Infrastructure Products ecosystem, building and delivering some of the most advanced cloud capabilities within Defense & Intelligence.
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
Lead a virtual team of Technical Program Managers, Product Managers, software, hardware, and test engineers in executing test plans, testing and validation processes, and product requirement refinement.
As an individual contributor, be the champion and lead for development and execution of mission application and mission product testing and validation processes supporting Mission Infrastructure Products.
Contribute to engineering activities to include requirements and resource planning, engineering and development reviews, and program execution for mission pathfinder projects.
Coordinate cross-organization engineering and development teams in exercising testing and validation workstreams into a coherent and disciplined manner.
Apply best engineering practices to assess testing and validation results and articulate required engineering activities to further advance product features, product quality, product security, and address any identified mission capability gaps.
Plan and execute both testing and validation events, retrospectives, and quality compliance reviews.
Engage with colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results.
Other
- Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
4+ years' experience with developing integration testing, feature testing, and validation plans that supported Defense & Intelligence customer programs and capabilities to include mission and real-time processing scenarios.
4+ years' experience with Defense & Intelligence systems requirements, architectures, and capability delivery.
Other Requirements:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with a polygraph . Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
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 & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years’ experience in product, project, or program management with large scale services, mission applications, mission platforms, or distributed systems.
Proven experience in developing and executing testing and integration programs that included software and hardware functionality.
Have superior interpersonal skills, and be an extremely accomplished communicator, both written and oral.
Ability to manage complex, large scale engineering projects.
Familiarity with metrics driven processes to drive system development and capability and assure customer requirements are accepted and satisfied.
Experience with cloud capabilities, architecture, and technology.
5+ years of industry or government experience working in the Government market sector serving Local, State, and/or Federal Government agencies. Department of Defense or Intelligence Community experience is beneficial to this role.
Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 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) .