Technical Program Manager

This is a US-based remote position that will start as an 8 month engagement that can extend up to 18 months.

The Technical Program Manager (TPM) plays a pivotal role in driving execution, coordination, and operational excellence across Corporate External and Legal Affairs' (CELA) engineering compliance and cybersecurity programs. Acting as Scrum Master for the team, the TPM facilitates daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning, ensuring clarity of priorities, accountability, and measurable progress. The role requires a solid background in cybersecurity and compliance frameworks to effectively coordinate initiatives aligned with Microsoft's security and compliance policies in CELA division.

The TPM is responsible for prioritizing security backlogs across multiple CELA engineering teams, driving alignment during sprint planning to ensure that cybersecurity-related work is properly scoped, scheduled, and tracked. This includes maintaining visibility into sprint commitments, proactively identifying dependencies and blockers, and ensuring the timely delivery of compliance and remediation milestones. The TPM partners with engineering leads, DRIs, and program owners across CELA to coordinate activities, track remediation ETAs, manage dashboards, and ensure readiness for quarterly compliance and accessibility reviews.

Additionally, the TPM supports the creation of documentation and reports for monthly compliance business reviews, providing transparency to leadership on progress, risks, and key metrics. The role ensures adherence to process rigor by maintaining proper tracking and traceability in Azure DevOps (ADO) boards and Power BI dashboards, supporting evidence collection, and upholding audit-readiness standards. Operating across technical, legal, and policy domains, the TPM serves as a bridge between multiple teams, driving unified progress toward durable, secure, and compliant engineering practices.

What You'll Do

• Facilitate daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning sessions, acting as a Scrum Master to drive team efficiency and progress.
• Prioritize security backlogs across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment and proper scoping of cybersecurity work during sprint planning.
• Maintain visibility into sprint commitments, proactively identifying and addressing dependencies and blockers to ensure timely delivery of compliance and remediation milestones.
• Partner with engineering leads and program owners to coordinate activities, track remediation timelines, and manage dashboards for compliance and accessibility reviews.
• Support the creation of comprehensive documentation and reports for monthly compliance business reviews, providing transparent insights into progress, risks, and key metrics.
• Ensure adherence to process rigor by maintaining proper tracking and traceability in enterprise-level Agile project management tools and business intelligence dashboards.
• Oversee evidence collection and uphold audit-readiness standards across all initiatives.
• Serve as a critical bridge between technical, legal, and policy domains, driving unified progress toward durable, secure, and compliant engineering practices.
• Review progress on cybersecurity and compliance initiatives, monitor compliance dashboards, and update remediation timelines.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to prepare reports and documentation for business reviews and manage security backlog prioritization.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager.
• 10+ years of experience in Data analysis (preferarable experience with Data Explorer)
• 10+ years of experience in reporting (preference with ADO dashboards and Power BI)
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, compliance, or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of security controls, risk management, and frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53, NIST AI RMF, or ISO 27001.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting compliance programs.
• Proven ability to prioritize and manage security backlogs and drive alignment during sprint planning across multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience facilitating Agile/Scrum ceremonies (standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, backlog grooming).
• Proficiency with enterprise-level Agile project management tools for task management, tracking, and reporting using business intelligence platforms.
• Strong organizational and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and business audiences.
• Ability to translate technical compliance and cybersecurity requirements into actionable engineering work items.
• Experience producing dashboards, reports, and documentation to communicate compliance status, risks, and metrics to leadership.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with data governance, ideally including migration from one platform to another.
• Experience with enterprise-level Agile project management tools.
• Program-related process development experience.
• Familiarity with various technology company tooling.
• Prior experience within a large technology organization.
• Demonstrated self-management experience and initiative.
• Experience creating and utilizing dashboards and performing data analytics.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.

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