Job Description

Senior Program Manager

Microsoft Digital builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

Security boundaries have changed, and identity is the new perimeter. With such a shift, there is a strong emphasis on carefully analyzing, and in many cases, hitting Refresh on the components that comprise the enterprise identity and access management platforms as we know them.

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join the Digital Security & Resilience (DSR) organization as we undergo the journey to ensure that the right identities get access to the right resources at the right time, protected each step of the way.

The Program Manager in this role will help steer our identity-centric digital transformation and enable emerging scenarios for access at Microsoft. You will use data on the health of our services and infrastructure, user feedback, and input from stakeholders across the company to define and drive a variety of service improvement projects. These can include automation investments to adapt and scale our identity services, configuration changes to our conditional access model, or the launch of new features or service offerings to meet the ever-evolving needs of our business.

With a structured approach, persistence, and a passion for securing the Microsoft enterprise, you will help hundreds of thousands of employees as we work together to empower every person on the planet to achieve more.

Key responsibilities:

* Provide technical project and program management for a cross-functional, highly visible, operations team supporting the Identity platform for Microsoft's corporate environment.
* Organize and lead multiple projects and show progress on planned execution on a monthly sprint cadence. Author functional and technical documentation.
* Identify opportunities to define and drive the implementation of a security policy baseline.
* Drive business & technical conversations with service engineering, security architects, service providers and business teams to improve and optimize service, protect the company, and enable new business scenarios.
* Collaborate effectively and inclusively with colleagues across the company, to drive clarity, generate energy, and deliver results.

Basic Qualifications:

* 4 years experience in Program Management or equivalent experience driving large-scale projects through effective collaboration, influence, and clarity
* BS/BA in engineering, business, security, or related fields or equivalent alternative education, skills or practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience driving enterprise initiatives focused on identity, virtualization, or security technologies.
* Familiarity with any of the following domains: directory services, identity management, multi-factor authentication, credential management, virtualized device access.
* Familiarity with any of the following relevant technologies: Azure Active Directory, Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, AAD Conditional Access.
* Experience with Agile or similar iterative planning & delivery methodology.
* Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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