Senior Technical Program Manager

Overview

The EQSP TPM organization drives strategic, cross-functional execution across Quality, COGS, Capacity, Buildout, Automation, and sovereign-cloud delivery for Microsoft Entra Identity. The team partners across engineering, product, infrastructure, operations, finance, and Azure to solve complex platform challenges, establish scalable operating mechanisms, and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, efficiency, modernization, and customer readiness.

EQSP is hiring a Senior Technical Program Managers (TPM) to address some of our most challenging problems. The ideal candidate, will help create solutions that enhance engineering and financial efficiencies and expand Entra's capabilities into new regions and clouds. Our programs have a significant impact across the organization.We're seeking a versatile TPM with experience managing complex programs and collaborating with leaders at all levels.

If you are an expert in program and project management, driving effective execution and prioritization and dependency management and adept in risk management, we would love to talk to you. Your technical acumen, keen attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills will be an asset to our buildout organization.This role reports to the Principal Program Management Manager.

Responsibilities

• Partner across engineering, product, infrastructure, Azure, operations, finance, and business teams to define, scope, and deliver complex technical programs.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, ensuring program decisions support long-term scalability, security, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Establish clear program charters, goals, success criteria, and priorities for strategic platform initiatives, including AAD Graph Migration and Kubernetes migration.
• Translate organizational objectives, customer requirements, and technical constraints into structured, executable program plans.
• Drive proactive, data-informed risk and dependency management. Identify technical and organizational risks early, clarify cross-team ownership, develop mitigation and contingency plans, and escalate decisions when necessary to maintain momentum and predictable delivery.
• Define and track measurable outcomes through OKRs, KPIs, migration metrics, and operational health indicators.
• Use data to evaluate progress, identify gaps, guide prioritization, and provide leadership with a clear view of program health and business impact.
• Lead end-to-end execution across complex, multi-team programs. Manage integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and readiness criteria while holding stakeholders accountable for commitments.
• Drive course correction when needed and ensure changes are communicated consistently.
• Ensure comprehensive launch and operational readiness.
• Coordinate engineering validation, security and compliance requirements, infrastructure readiness, deployment planning, service operations, customer-impact assessment, and post-launch measurement.
• Create scalable program structures and operating mechanisms that improve execution across the Directory and Compute platforms.
• Establish effective governance, decision-making forums, escalation paths, and reporting mechanisms without introducing unnecessary process.
• Communicate clearly across all levels of the organization. Develop concise, executive-ready updates that communicate outcomes, progress, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions required.
• Present program strategy and status confidently to large cross-functional and leadership audiences.

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
• 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.
• Additional or preferred qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ 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).
• 2+ years of experience with software development lifecycles from conception to delivery
• 2+ years of experience with data analysis, data presentation using Power BI or similar.

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

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

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

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