Senior Technical Program Manager - CTJ - Poly Security Clearance

Position: Senior Technical Program Manager - CTJ - Poly with Security Clearance
Overview Azure is the foundation of Microsoft's Cloud Services and is expanding our footprint in the Sovereign Cloud space, delivering mission-critical cloud solutions that provide breakthrough innovation and security for government and regulated customers in sovereign clouds. With world-class security, compliance, and data sovereignty, agencies and partners can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence in a consistent, highly secure environment designed for flexibility and scale.

Azure Sovereign Cloud enables innovation with deeply integrated services, advanced analytics, and an open application platform that provides the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy, and manage intelligent solutions within sovereign boundaries. Customers can leverage Microsoft's trusted technology ecosystem and diverse marketplace offerings to advance their mission while meeting strict regulatory requirements. Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) on our sovereign cloud AI team.

Our team delivers secure, compliant, and mission critical AI services that power the U.S. government and national security community. You'll join a group that blends customer obsessed product thinking with deep technical rigor to deliver reliable, scalable AI capabilities in highly regulated environments. Your work helps agencies adopt advanced AI safely, efficiently, and with clarity-bridging real world mission needs and Microsoft's cloud scale innovation.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will own execution across multiple areas, driving clarity, alignment, and technical progress across engineering and partner teams. You will shape program direction through data informed insights, define success metrics, reduce ambiguity, and ensure on time, high quality delivery. You will also engage with customers and stakeholders to ensure program outcomes reflect real user needs and business objectives.

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
* Drive technical programs across multiple feature areas, partnering with engineering teams to design solutions, identify risks, and propose data-driven mitigations.

* Define success criteria, engineering requirements, and implementation relationships for complex cross functional projects with varied technical dependencies.

* Coordinate execution across organizations, ensuring alignment, clarity on priorities, and smooth program delivery across partner teams.

* Deliver the roadmap for multiple feature groups, manage project schedules, track progress, and develop phased delivery and staging/implementation plans.

* Lead continuous improvement cycles, validating use cases, defining test cases from scratch, and driving quality through structured program reviews.

* Partner with cross functional teams to collect performance metrics, analyze results, and reinforce data informed decision making throughout the program lifecycle.

* Engage directly with customers and stakeholders, supporting customer facing interactions, surfacing insights, and ensuring program outcomes meet business and user needs. 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 of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
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…