Director, Cost Management - Air Gap Cloud

** Overview*
* Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud. CO+I is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate individual to help build the network that powers the world's largest online services.

We are looking for a Director, Cost Management - Air Gap Cloud to join our team.

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*
* ** Cost & Estimation Leadership*
* + Lead the  
** Air-Gapped*
* ** Cloud*
* ** Cost*
* ** and*
* ** Estimation*
* ** function** , establishing strategy, operating rhythms, standards, priorities, and measurable outcomes across the portfolio.

+ Establish consistent estimating methodologies from feasibility and conceptual planning through progressively refined construction estimates.

+ Drive development and governance of Basis of Estimate documentation, including assumptions, clarifications, exclusions, quantities, unit rates, productivity assumptions, benchmarks, and estimate validation.

+ Establish consistent Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) alignment to enable transparent comparison of estimates, forecasts, commitments, and actual costs.

+ Lead estimate validation using quantity analysis, unit-rate analysis, historical data, benchmarking, market intelligence, and risk analysis.

+ Develop scalable cost models and estimating approaches supporting scenario planning, feasibility analysis, design alternatives, value engineering, and portfolio planning.

Current AGC estimating materials emphasize quantity-led estimating, CBS/WBS mapping, unit-rate analysis, benchmarking, and detailed Basis of Estimate development.

** Cost Management & Portfolio Governance*
* + Establish the operating framework connecting  
** estimates,*
* ** budgets,*
* ** forecasts,*
* ** Estimate*
* ** at*
* ** Completion**  **(EAC),*
* ** cash*
* ** flow,*
* ** risk,*
* ** changes,*
* ** commitments,*
* ** and*
* ** actual*
* ** costs** .

+ Establish clear accountability and governance for major cost artifacts throughout the project lifecycle.

+ Lead portfolio-level analysis to identify cost trends, variance drivers, systemic risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.

+ Establish benchmarking and cost-performance capabilities that improve future estimates and inform investment decisions.

+ Partner with Finance to strengthen portfolio forecasting, EAC accuracy, cash-flow visibility, and cost governance.

+ Present executive-level cost information that translates complex construction and financial data into clear risks, decisions, and recommendations.

** Preconstruction & Estimating Excellence*
* + Lead development and continuous improvement of estimating standards, templates, cost models, reference data, benchmarks, and controls.

+ Ensure estimates appropriately capture project scope, quantities, labor, materials, equipment, indirects, escalation, procurement assumptions, construction strategy, and risk.

+ Partner across Design, Construction, and Procurement to…