Principal Security PM Architect

Security 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. Team Overview The Microsoft CISO Organization is looking for a Principal Security PM Architect with strong security engineering and product management expertise to develop the next generation of Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities to protect all of Microsoft. If you are passionate about the intersection of applications, secrets, and access management, this is the team for you. Our mission is to proactively identify and mitigate security risks by leveraging advanced security signals and risk assessments to drive meaningful architectural improvements.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Principal Security PM Architect with deep expertise in security engineering, risk assessment, and architectural design to strengthen Microsoft’s security posture. In this role, you will collaborate with security assessment teams, security engineers, and service architects to validate service architecture, propose mitigations, and track progress. You will design and implement a scalable pre-mortem framework leveraging security-by-design principles and security graph insights. You will use the framework to analyze assessments and system design to surface vulnerabilities and drive security investments. You will partner with penetration testing teams to translate findings into actionable security improvements, influence cross-company security reviews, and ensure a coordinated approach to risk mitigation at scale.

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.