The Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) within Microsoft's Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs organization is chartered with protecting people online. Our vision is a safer digital experience for every person and organization on the planet. DCU opened its Cybercrime Center in Redmond, WA, as a center of excellence for advancing the fight against cybercrime and protecting people online. The Cybercrime Center is a cutting-edge facility and the worldwide headquarters of the Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). DCU is a team of more than 100 attorneys, investigators, engineers, analysts, forensic specialists, data scientists, and business professionals located in Redmond and globally focused on delivering on this vision. As the epicenter of the company's battle against malicious code and botnets, unlicensed/unmanaged software (piracy), and technology-facilitated child exploitation, the Cybercrime Center contains two state-of-the-art crime labs, and dedicated space for customers, partners, law enforcement,
As a Principal Program Manager, you will have the responsibilities to lead the DCU engineering team through defining strategy, partnering with the DCU Product Owner to understand user requirements, derive product specifications, and lead the dev/ops team on the product technical design, implementation, quality and timely delivery of the tools and services owned by the team. You will also participate in strategic planning and innovation of the next generation best practices for tomorrow's DCU environment. To be successful in this position, you must have strong passion for the customer as well as
Highly Desired Qualifications Include: A CS degree or equivalent work experience 10+ years of professional experience in designing, developing and shipping high quality commercial enterprise products (database, operating system etc.). 6+ years program management experience, with strong track record in project management, excellent time management and organization skills, and the ability to think holistically and critically Strong technical background and problem solving skills, and solid foundation on software engineering principles and software architecture design. Specifically, a deep history