New 
Technical Program Management Leader - Azure Sovereign Cloud Experiences
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 30, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure 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 Leader on the Sovereign Cloud Experiences Technical PM team. This team is responsible for ensuring that Azure delivers on our sovereign cloud commitments to our partners and best supports the transition to and future operations for these partners. In this role, you will work closely with engineers enabling a broad set of Azure services for highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build must meet stringent security, compliance, and sovereignty requirements for both public and private sector customers. 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. This leader role will lead a dedicated team of folks both in the US and in country focused on managing strategic relationships with sovereign cloud partners. This team ensures that Azure's commitments are consistently delivered across all phases-buildout, transition, and ongoing operations-while providing partners with clear transparency throughout the process fostering trust and alignment. Acting as the voice of sovereign cloud partner internally to drive understanding of requirements and advocating for their priorities within Microsoft to get commitments and unblock work.
ResponsibilitiesMicrosoft has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) Leader to join the Sovereign Experience PM Team and help empower customers with highly regulated workloads and critical missions. Our TPM and Product Management team leads efforts such as designing product architecture and solutions to complex technical needs, identifying trends in product quality and performance to define or change existing features; prioritizing and delivering on the roadmap; managing project schedules and release plans; monitoring product/service performance and driving continuous improvement in quality, profitability, supportability and delivery. In this role, you will also have opportunities to act as technical advisor with customers to evangelize products, solicit feedback, and support field sellers where needed. In this role you will be responsible for the following types of activities: Lead and orchestrate high-impact, cross-functional initiatives - Drive strategic programs with executive visibility, ensuring alignment across engineering, compliance, and business teams. Focus on clear milestones and dependency management to deliver outcomes that matter.Develop actionable insights into government customer priorities - Go beyond understanding usage-translate sensitivity and sovereignty requirements into concrete platform features and roadmap commitments.Mobilize a distributed organization for decisive execution - Build coalitions across diverse teams, influence decision-makers, and remove ambiguity to accelerate Azure adoption in regulated markets.Convert demand signals into growth enablers - Partner with engineering, marketing, finance, and legal to turn customer requirements into prioritized investments that unblock Azure expansion.Champion compliance and security as growth accelerators - Ensure government-specific infrastructure, identity, and security needs are embedded in Azure services to support sensitive workloads.Establish a disciplined operating rhythm with agility - Define cadence, stakeholder map, and reporting that balances rigor with speed-enabling transparency without slowing innovation.Apply advanced program management practices - Drive risk mitigation, quality assurance, and schedule adherence while fostering efficient decision-making and timely delivery.Facilitate customer design and deployment workshops - Guide secure architecture decisions and provide best-practice recommendations for mission-critical applications.Act as the Voice of Customer with measurable impact - Surface insights, champion blockers removal, and influence engineering priorities to deliver tangible adoption outcomes. You will be accountable for: Strategic Program Leadership - lead complex, cross-functional programs end-to-end-setting priorities, managing dependencies, and ensuring delivery against strategic objectives.Government Customer Advocacy & Market Expansion - Shape Azure's roadmap to remove adoption barriers and expand presence in international government marketsStakeholder Engagement & Decision Enablement - Establish a rhythm of business, foster alignment among diverse stakeholders, and ensure timely decisions that unblock growth while building trust with our partners. | |