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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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The Principal Technical Program Manager leads high-impact, cross-organizational programs to strengthen customer trust across security, compliance, privacy, quality, resilience, and responsible AI. This role translates complex regulatory obligations into prioritized roadmaps, durable operating mechanisms, and measurable engineering outcomes. You will define program architecture, manage dependencies, and lead end-to-end execution across multiple feature areas. Key responsibilities include driving the strategy for agentic tools and automation to reduce engineering toil and improve remediation visibility. You will utilize technologies and tools including Kusto Query Language, SQL, Power BI, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and S360. The role requires translating ambiguous business needs into clear technical requirements while managing risk mitigation and executive communication. You will build scalable operating models and playbooks to embed trust into products and platforms by default.
What does a Technical Program Manager earn?
Median $191875 from 276 postings across 48 companies.
Define the strategy, architecture, and multi-semester roadmaps for complex trust, security, and AI automation programs.
Translate regulatory and security obligations into clear engineering requirements, prioritized backlogs, and implementation plans.
Lead end-to-end execution of multi-feature programs, including dependency management, staged rollouts, and risk mitigation.
Design and deploy agentic tools and automation frameworks to reduce engineering toil and accelerate security remediation.
Establish metrics and telemetry to measure adoption, reliability, and business impact to drive continuous improvement.
Create repeatable playbooks, training materials, and support models to enable engineering teams to adopt new processes.
Triage emerging technical issues and process failures to coordinate owners and implement durable, long-term fixes.
Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs to executive leadership through concise written updates and operating forums.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (or equivalent).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (preferred).
5+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects (preferred).
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (preferred).
Experience leading programs across security, compliance, privacy, risk, reliability, quality, responsible AI, or other trust-related engineering domains (preferred).
Experience with Microsoft security and engineering systems such as S360, Service Tree, Kusto, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Power BI, or comparable platforms (preferred).
Experience designing or operationalizing AI agents, copilots, automation frameworks, or telemetry for AI-assisted engineering workflows (preferred).
AI
Machine Learning
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Anomaly Detection
Telemetry
Predictive Analytics
Intelligent Automation
Data Science
Incident Response
Technical Program Management
Data Analysis