Senior Technical Program Manager

** Overview*
* Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) delivers secure, compliant, and highly reliable cloud environments for mission-critical customers. We are seeking a  
** Senior Technical Program Manager
** to lead planning and AI transformation for MSC engineering, driving measurable improvements in planning effectiveness, engineering execution, and delivery outcomes.

In this role, you will own the strategy and execution for two connected transformation efforts across MSC. You will improve the planning lifecycle, from intake and prioritization through dependency management, capacity allocation, commitments, execution, retrospectives, and continuous learning. You will also partner with the AI v-team led by the MSC CTO to translate priority engineering scenarios into scalable AI-enabled capabilities. Across both efforts, you will establish governance and operating rhythms, and use evidence and feedback to improve engineering productivity, decision quality, and delivery performance.

We are looking for an AI-forward technical program leader with hands-on experience building agentic systems and AI-powered automation and a track record of leading organization-wide change. You will work across engineering, product, data science, finance, security, compliance, and operations to build trusted solutions and influence decisions with appropriate human oversight.

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*
* ** Planning*
* + Lead cross-team planning for MSC:
Lead a cross-organization v-team of planning leaders throughout the planning cycle. Run the ongoing rhythm of business to align priorities, drive timely decisions, and establish repeatable planning practices across MSC. Communicate progress, risks, and decisions to executive leadership.

+ Refine the planning program strategy:
Assess current planning operations, data, tooling, and governance; then define the vision, roadmap, adoption approach, and success measures for AI-powered semester planning across MSC.

** AI Transformation*
* + Shape MSC's AI transformation strategy:
Partner with the MSC CTO office and AI v-team to set priorities and maintain an outcome-focused roadmap for AI-first engineering. Identify high-impact opportunities to improve engineering workflows, assess emerging AI capabilities against organizational needs, and turn selected opportunities into actionable transformation initiatives with clear outcomes.

+ Drive alignment across AI transformation work streams:
Partner with engineering teams and v-team workstream leads to ensure that work on AI-enabled workflows, agentic capabilities, and shared engineering practices reflects organizational and team needs and targets clear, high-impact outcomes. Support Lighthouse experiments, challenge existing approaches, and help translate successful approaches into sustained improvements in how teams plan, build, review, and operate while maintaining security, quality, and reliability.

+ Measure impact and guide strategic direction:
Partner with workstream and analytics leads to define success measures and assess improvements in engineering productivity, quality, and operational outcomes. Use insights and feedback to inform priorities and continuous improvement.

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR…