Sr Consultant, Cyber Security - CTJ - TS/SCI

Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists.
Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs. 

Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.
We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.

This opportunity will allow to drive complex cybersecurity solutions across classified and regulated environments while strengthening your technical depth in cloud security, automation, and architecture. In this role, you will also influence large-scale federal programs through risk-based decision-making and strong delivery leadership.

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. 

• Demonstrate the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services and uses business, technology and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints
• Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services and drive opportunities to accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft Cloud
• Drive and support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform
• Ensure solutions align with the intent of the architecture allowing for clear build test specifications and development of operations guides for the customer
• Identify business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impact and proposes mitigations and contingencies
• Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues
• Balance Configure-Before-Customize principles with the goals of maximum customer/partner value and with the use of Microsoft core/baseline assets, people, products and tools and develop project plans that use the full project life cycle accounting for current & future business value of each solution while defining all technical dependencies for project
• Lead delivery of cybersecurity solutions across the full lifecycle, with a focus on ATO readiness, execution, and sustainment within federal environments
• Design and implement secure cloud architectures leveraging Azure, including security services such as Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Azure Policy
• Drive hands-on engineering, automation, and implementation of security controls—not limited to compliance documentation
• Identify and mitigate technical and program risks; translate risk findings into actionable remediation strategies
• Support large-scale federal programs by aligning cybersecurity solutions to mission requirements and operational outcomes
• Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, engineers, and program stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and adoption

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 3+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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: 
Classified as Microsoft Confidential
• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance. 
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are 
required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate 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.
• 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 customer 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:

5+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business.
Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics).
Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).

Technology Consulting IC4 - 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.