Government Cloud Director

Microsoft is building Azure to be world’s computer to tackle the hardest problems on the planet. Core to the success of this mission is that every customer, in every industry can adopt Azure to further their mission. The Azure Global Expansion Team is at the center of this mission, building hyperscale cloud infrastructure around the world to support commercial industry and government adopt cloud for their most complex workloads.

Azure is seeking an experiences, highly motivated leader to drive delivery of a portfolio of sovereign clouds for globally to support government customers and regulated industries. You will be responsible for:

- Leading multiple in country teams delivering fully instanced clouds for key customers to capture multi-billion dollar Public Sector (government and regulated industry) market.
- You will lead >100 matrix’ed staff in country delivering fully instanced clouds
- You will be representing these clouds to senior executives within Microsoft

This position offers an exciting opportunity to be part of driving a digital transformation for an entire country

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide technical leadership, direction, and solutioning for large enterprise cloud implementations across multiple projects, workstreams and external and internal teams.
- Ensure the successful implementation of Program Objectives. Develop the region strategy and milestones to achieve these Program Objectives.
- Develop strong internal relationships across a matrixed team of Technical Architects, Engineering, Account Teams and Support for the successful execution of program objectives.
- Assist with technical solutions to drive annualized growth and financial performance across multiple engagements in the program.
- Lead face-to-face customer reviews with senior management and establish trusted customer relationships that enable the customer to reach success in the shortest amount of time possible.
- Provide technical leadership for the customer organizations as well though evangelizing and aligning to their technical strategies (which include skills development, security, infrastructure etc.). Somewhere we should mention the need to understand and align commercial strategies as this individual will cover both when discussing with CXO.
- Work with Engineering and technical architects on a wide range of solutions to meet customers’ requirements as a part of both formal and informal capture effort. Design, Consult, and lead technical solutioning across a wide array of Azure programs.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- Singapore citizenship
- Minimum 8 years managing complex engineering projects
- Minimum 6 years experience directly managing a cloud portfolio
- Minimum 4 year experience delivering IT solutions to government and/or regulated industries; maintaining sensitive information and addressing certification/accreditation requirements

**Desired Attributes**
- Singapore Level 2A Clearance
- Demonstrated history of working in the Government space at the business decision maker CxO/board level
- Excellent skills in all aspects of planning, cross-group collaboration, resource orchestration, communications, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
- Ability to recognize, analyze, and act on go to market approaches, joint value propositions, and business cases around strategic partnerships
- Building long term relationships and key influencers
- Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and share in large or highly strategic accounts
- Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication
- 10+ years of success in consultative/complex technical deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects)
- Leadership experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support teams
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
- Experience negotiation complex contracts terms to mitigate risk in partnerships
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Deep understanding and experience of the Intelligence and/or Security domain(s), key challenges, priorities and stakeholders
- Experience and knowledge of Microsoft Azure technologies and how these can be utilized to satisfy Intelligence and Security mission requirements
- Experience of managing software development teams within complex projects and highly regulated customer environments
- Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to handle sensitive situations involving critical and politically charged partner situations, to lead projects and to motivate others
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