We are looking to hire a Senior Consulting Project Manager to join Microsoft Federal.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment – Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.

Responsibilities

Oversees the delivery/execution of numerous programs and associated resources to our customers within the constraints of schedule, features/functionality, and budget during one or more key lifecycle segments: opportunity, delivery or operations. Candidate must possess financial acumen and be adept at concurrently managing multiple projects/customers.

• Manages the complete lifecycle of large and complex projects:

• Establishes a strategy for continuous risk management that enables proactive decisions and actions throughout the project life cycle and creates an environment to support it where the project team has visible, measurable, and repeatable processes for managing these risks.

• Responsible for planning, executing, and controlling:

• Scope of project work, work objectives, deliverables, development of duration estimates and schedule, development of cost estimates, performance management of scope, schedule, resources and cost, project infrastructure to support communications and information needs, use and reuse of IP, identification of Microsoft recommended practices and process improvements.

• Project management in one or more key lifecycle segments: opportunity, delivery or operations

• Manages Microsoft technical personnel in execution of project work

• Monitoring and reporting on milestones as they relate to individual projects

• Manages execution in the delivery of a product/service/solution

• Utilizes Microsoft recommended practices, lessons learned and IP from projects as appropriate for project delivery

• This role requires working in-person onsite with customers 80% of the time, with some time spent at the Microsoft Reston office.

• Work will be conducted in the Northern Virginia area (Herndon, Reston, Chantilly, McLean).

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 3+ years experience in project management

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with Intel customers in Northern Virginia.

• Experience managing complex and/or multiple projects concurrently.

• 3+ years financial management experience (forecasting, tracking and reporting).

Other Requirements

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Cloud Screening: 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, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Consulting Project Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,800 - $189,400 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 $123,200 - $199,400 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 November 1, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .