Principal Technical Program Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 May 01, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft 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 security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal Technical Program Manager to join our GUARD team within the CISO Organization on our mission to enable engineering, governance, and defense operations to effectively secure Microsoft's digital ecosystem. This role is crucial in enhancing and ensuring the protection and integrity of Microsoft. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Program Management, engineering fundamentals, and a passion for driving security initiatives.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.
ResponsibilitiesLeads governance programs and processes to ensure that specific performance requirements and standards are met throughout our defense operation's detections and telemetry data lifecycle.Provides expertise to partner with others (e.g., Data Science, Data Analyst, Software Engineering) to collect performance metrics, monitor and report on progress, and derive deep insights that lead to productive courses of action to improve development, iteration, and implementation of multiple feature areas across divisional boundaries. Forms hypotheses to highly complex technical needs, performs experiments, and iterates to drive improvement in specific performance metrics that have measurable impact.Tracks, coordinates, and communicates end-to-end projects and initiatives for multiple feature areas across divisional boundaries. Establishes and monitors processes and drives accountability with stakeholders for following the established schedule and processes.Tracks and manages dependencies to enable cohesive, connected user scenarios, and to identify potential risk areas and escalate appropriately. Makes adjustments or course corrections when projects/initiatives are not aligned to schedules or goals.Works with Security Experts to design architecture and integrated customer/internal solutions to highly complex technical needs for multiple feature areas across divisional boundaries. Reviews design documents and architecture proposals. Understands what options are available and leads others to identify and select best option for needs and creates new solutions if needed. Works with architects and technical partners to develop future proof architecture. Works with internal and external technical partners and/or architects to represent technical solutions.Embody ourCultureandValues | |