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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.​

​​We are the Security and Compliances (S&C) team within the Azure Databases organization and our mission is to offer the most secure database services on the planet – from on-premises data centers to the cloud. We focus on:

• developing and shipping industry-leading, differentiated security capabilities such as Always Encrypted or SQL Ledger;

• driving consistency in the security portfolio across our services;

• integrating the latest A.I. based techniques into the security features of our services to make securing databases more intuitive for our customers and ultimately more effective

• integrating with the latest foundational security and data governance technologies provided by our partner teams such as Azure Key Vault for key management, Entra for modern authentication, or Microsoft Purview for data governance.

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager with a proven track record in security and data governance to help us develop innovative features for our operational data services such as SQL, PostgreSQL. The successful candidate will collaborate with our customer base to gather requirements and evangelize our security capabilities to ensure adoption of our features and services. As part of the role, the candidate will help drive product strategy and lead platform security initiatives to ensure our services are leading the industry. In addition to having a passion for technology, we are looking for a product manager who thrives on educating customers and helping them solve their most complex security challenges. Azure is the platform of choice for many federal and DoD workloads, and we have a unique opportunity to demonstrate to our customers that our cloud services continue to meet the highest bar for data security and privacy.

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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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• ​​Define and ship new features and capabilities to strengthen the security and compliance portfolio of database offerings and improve the security of our services.

• Evangelize the security capabilities of our services through workshops, conference presentations, as well as on social media channels.

• Help customers develop proof-of-concept implementations to assess the security posture of our services.

• Assess and evaluate emerging trends in IT security, information protection, data governance, and A.I. to educate our team.​

Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• ​​Bachelor’s degree AND 5+ years' experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience with relational and/or NoSQL data management systems​

• 2+ years of experience in data security incl. but not limited to authentication, encryption, threat defense, or auditing

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• ​​Professional experience with data governance solutions, threat modelling, or vulnerability assessments.

• Proven experience defining enterprise security strategies for cloud adoption.​

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 17, 2024.

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