Senior Federal Program Manager

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Project Management

In short

Microsoft sucht einen Senior Federal Program Manager für die Leitung strategischer und komplexer Projekte im US-Bundesministerium. Zu den Hauptaufgaben gehören die Zusammenarbeit mit Kunden und Partnern, die Steuerung von Projekten, das Risikomanagement und die finanzielle Überwachung, um eine erfolgreiche Projektabwicklung zu gewährleisten.

Responsibilities

Engage with US Federal government customer stakeholders to develop partnerships, leveraging broad technical expertise.
Drive customer satisfaction by engaging customer stakeholders positively, reviewing and analyzing customer feedback, and leveraging trusted internal relationships to act as the voice of the customer.
Adhere to project compliance standards, contractual requirements, and applicable customer compliance standards.
Drive project initiation for strategic and complex projects and programs by coordinating multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
Facilitate the contracting process for partner resources by briefing partners, coordinating candidate interviews, and identifying, onboarding, and acclimating partner resources to the team.
Develop detailed program and project management plans to drive predictable delivery across strategic, complex, multi-workstream engagements; review defined metrics, proactively monitor and track risks, ensure timely completion and quality of deliverables, and manage stakeholder communications.
Drive timely project closure by ensuring completion of project sign-off activities.
Apply advanced knowledge across program and project management disciplines, share knowledge across teams, mentor colleagues to address identified skill gaps, and promote peer alignment and lessons learned across engagements.
Support complex Federal pursuits from qualification through contract award and project delivery.
Collaborate with Sales, Architects, and Delivery teams to assess deal feasibility, delivery readiness, and execution risk.
Contribute to the development of statements of work (SOWs), estimates, work breakdown structures (WBS), staffing plans, and delivery strategies.
Ensure opportunities are structured for successful execution and aligned to customer outcomes.
Serve as a central coordination point across Microsoft teams, partners, and customer stakeholders.
Facilitate partner identification, onboarding, contracting, and engagement activities.
Drive alignment among Sales, Solution Areas, Delivery organizations, and partner ecosystems.
Lead governance and stakeholder communications to ensure clarity, accountability, and execution momentum.
Establish delivery plans, resource strategies, governance structures, and success criteria for complex engagements.
Manage risks, dependencies, issues, change control processes, and compliance requirements.
Monitor project health, milestones, KPIs, and delivery commitments.
Ensure readiness for Sales-to-Delivery handoff and successful transition into execution.
Track project financials, including forecasting, budget management, revenue attainment, and resource utilization; support consumption acceleration and identify opportunities for additional business growth.
Contribute to forecasting, backlog management, and portfolio health reviews.
Drive accountability for profitability while balancing customer success and delivery excellence.
Lead multiple concurrent, cross-functional project teams through ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex delivery environments.
Create an inclusive, respectful, and psychologically safe environment where team members can raise concerns, challenge assumptions, and ask for help.
Establish clear roles, decision rights, priorities, and accountability across workstream leads, consultants, architects, partners, and customer teams.
Coach and empower project leaders while providing timely direction, constructive feedback, and escalation support.
Proactively monitor team capacity, workload, morale, and delivery friction, and remove organizational and operational barriers that impede success.
Navigate conflict with empathy and candor, balancing individual needs, customer commitments, and business outcomes.
Recognize team contributions and foster collaboration, resilience, professional growth, and shared ownership of outcomes.
Ensure adherence to security, privacy, compliance, and Federal delivery requirements.
Lead risk assessment activities and mitigation planning.
Drive process consistency, documentation quality, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Promote reuse of tools, intellectual property, and best practices across engagements.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 3+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

Desired Qualifications

Able to obtain and retain a security clearance
Preference for an active Top-Secret clearance
Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 8+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience.
4+ years financial management experience.
Reliable communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels, across teams, geographies, and business functions.
Proven judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to work effectively under continual deadline pressure and in ambiguous situations.
Ownership mindset, business judgment, and initiative, with demonstrated ability to operate entrepreneurially within a complex organization.

Benefits

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,800 - $193,800 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 $126,100 - $207,600 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

Skills

Program ManagementProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementRisk ManagementFinancial ManagementCloud

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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

3 days ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

Remote

Salary

US$101,800–207,600 · Negotiable

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Bachelor

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