Overview

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Security is one of our customers’ most critical priorities amid digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and increasing complexity. Microsoft Security works to protect customers and Microsoft’s own estate. The Microsoft Security Trust Compliance team delivers a centralized, scalable compliance function across Security services. The Microsoft Security Trust Compliance team is responsible for delivering a centralized, scalable compliance function across all Security services. This role is accountable for the end-to-end compliance posture of Microsoft Security services, driving consistency, quality, and readiness across a complex, distributed engineering landscape..

The Senior Technical Program Manager (Compliance Onboarding and Monitoring Lead) owns end-to-end onboarding and continuous compliance readiness outcomes for Microsoft Security services entering or operating within Azure and M365 compliance boundaries. This role coordinates onboarding milestones, validates readiness prerequisites, monitors control implementation and documentation health, and partners with service teams to resolve blockers. The ideal candidate brings an engineering, compliance, audit, or technical program management background; communicates effectively with technical audiences; and can manage service-level details while maintaining a broader view of compliance risk.
As a Technical Program Manager II, you will support Microsoft Security's compliance programs by driving execution across regulatory impact assessments, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) assessments, external audits, evidence management, remediation tracking, and compliance process improvements. You will partner closely with engineering teams, Service Liaisons, Compliance Champs, Trust stakeholders, auditors, and senior program managers to identify compliance gaps, manage dependencies, track risks, define success metrics, and drive program outcomes across multiple services. This role requires strong program management, analytical problem solving, stakeholder management, technical communication, and the ability to translate compliance requirements into actionable engineering and operational workstreams. Success is measured through execution excellence, process improvement, risk reduction, audit readiness, and the ability to drive alignment across complex cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

Senior TPM:

Own onboarding outcomes for MSec services entering Azure and M365 compliance boundaries.
Coordinate onboarding milestones with service teams and boundary onboarding leads; validate prerequisites, control ownership, and readiness expectations.
Advise Microsoft Security service teams on compliance requirements across the service lifecycle, from onboarding through continuous monitoring and audit readiness.
Continuously monitor service alignment with required controls and the health of supporting documentation using defined readiness mechanisms.
Identify control implementation, documentation, and ownership gaps; coordinate remediation and track progress to closure.
Contribute to continuous improvement of the Microsoft Security compliance program by identifying process gaps, standardizing templates and playbooks, and supporting maturity models that improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.

TPM II:

Drive compliance program execution across Microsoft Security by coordinating regulatory assessments, BCDR assessments, audit activities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across engineering and compliance stakeholders.
Support audit and certification readiness efforts for external and internal compliance programs, including ISO, SOC, FedRAMP, customer audits, and other trust-related assessments.
Coordinate evidence collection, validation, documentation, and submission activities to ensure audit artifacts meet established quality, completeness, and compliance standards.
Evaluate compliance and BCDR assessment results, identify gaps and risks, and partner with engineering teams to drive remediation planning and corrective actions through closure.
Partner with Service Liaisons, Compliance Champs, Business Continuity Leads, Trust partners, and engineering teams to translate compliance requirements into actionable implementation plans and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
Develop and maintain compliance metrics, dashboards, status reporting, and program health indicators to provide visibility into audit readiness, remediation progress, and compliance posture.
Contribute to continuous improvement of the Microsoft Security compliance program by identifying process gaps, standardizing templates and playbooks, and supporting maturity models that improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
Serve as the designated Business Continuity Lead (BCL) for assigned Microsoft Security Service Groups as needed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years of experience in engineering, technical program management, compliance, security operations, audit, product development, data analysis, or related fields
- OR equivalent experience.
1+ year of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements

Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
4+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
Experience supporting BCDR, operational resilience, compliance, and audit programs, including partnering with engineering teams to review recovery testing, dependencies, evidence, and remediation activities.
Experience building repeatable audit processes and tooling
Experience influencing senior leadership and cross-org stakeholders

Technical Program Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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