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Senior Compliance Technical Program Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Jan 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The Microsoft Security Compliance Program team educates and empowers the Microsoft Security organization to meet these regulations and build customer trust. The Compliance Program team ensures that Security products and services comply with Microsoft cybersecurity and privacy requirements while also leading efforts to deliver enterprise-wide cutting-edge compliance solutions. We are seeking a Senior Compliance Technical Program Manager to establish and grow Microsoft Security's Compliance program. This role provides you with the leadership opportunity to effect change that will have market-wide impacts. As a senior member of the Compliance team, you will be responsible for coordinating efforts across the Security division in collaboration with compliance champs and partner teams in Azure and M365. The ideal candidate could have an engineering, compliance, or audit background, understanding of engineering best practices, and experience in raising the quality of existing solutions. The candidateneeds an understanding of technology, experience providing guidance and direction to technical audiences, ability to drive towards the "big picture" while managing details, and the ability to build relationships with key partners. 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. Successful candidates can be located anywhere in the U.S.
ResponsibilitiesEmbrace a "compliance by design" mindset; proactively identify systemic gaps that should be integrated into program design and elevate them to the appropriate owners. Prevent local/one-off solutioning whenever possible.Work with security teams to help them navigate and meet regulatory requirements, ensuring the organization achieves and maintains necessary certifications (e.g., such as ISO/IEC 27x, FedRAMP, SOC, PCI DSS, HIPPA)Conduct regular assessments to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards.Provide guidance and support to internal teams on compliance-related matters, including policy development, risk management, and incident response.Coordinate response and evidence gathering in response to external auditors and regulators to facilitate compliance assessments and certifications.Develop and deliver training programs to educate employees on compliance requirements and best practices.Lead cross-functional teams to address compliance-related issues and drive continuous improvement in the organization's compliance posture.Coordinate with other privacy, compliance, and risk management leaders in the company to ensure Microsoft Security's programs are aligned and partner closely with governance owners, including Privacy Regulatory Affairs and Corporate External Legal Affairs Front Line.Accountable for delivery of measurement frameworks, processes, and maturity models to both understand and improve the bar of technical compliance across the portfolio that meets needs of the rhythm of business with exec leadership.Stay up to date with the latest regulatory changes and industry best practices and ensure the compliance program is continuously updated to reflect these changes.Monitor and report on the effectiveness of the compliance program, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions as needed.Serve as a subject matter expert on compliance and regulatory matters, providing strategic advice and guidance to senior leadership.Embody our culture and values | |