Lease Delivery Program Manager

If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, if strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out of the box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - this job is for you!

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.

• Lead leased datacenter delivery programmes across multiple projects, tranches or sites.
• Integrate construction, engineering, technical infrastructure, commissioning, safety, commercial, project controls and operational readiness workstreams into one coordinated programme plan.
• Own programme-level governance, reporting, escalation, risk and dependency management.
• Act as Microsoft’s senior delivery interface with lease providers, contractors, consultants and internal stakeholders, including Engineering, End to End, Commissioning, Safety, Operations, Commercial, Legal, Procurement, Security and Network teams.
• Responsibility for the on time deliver of Microsoft milestones including: Ready for Service, Ready for Network Install, commissioning, fit-out completion and turnover milestones.
• Support commercial and contractual governance, including change control, delivery decisions and issue resolution.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure safe delivery remains central to programme decision-making.
• Manage a team of eternal owner representatives.
• Responsible for ensuring regional goals of delivering capacity are aligned to business OKRs.
• Identify and track metrics to help with improvement in delivery of milestones, Cost and other OKRs.
• Act as Construction and Fitout SMEs during lease site selection.

Background Check Requirements: 

Ability 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: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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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.