Chief Technology Officer (US Federal Civilian) - CTJ - Secret

Chief Technology Officer (US Federal Civilian) - CTJ - Secret

United States, District of Columbia, Washington D.C.

Date posted

Work site

0 days / week in-office – remote

Travel

25-50%

Profession Sales

Discipline Strategic Account Management

Role type Individual Contributor

Employment type Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft is seeking a Chief Technology Officer for the US Federal Civilian business, including US Tribal Nations. The Chief Technology Officer serves as the senior technology executive for the business, translating emerging technologies, customer priorities, market dynamics, and Microsoft capabilities into actionable strategy for the business and its most strategic accounts.

Working across Microsoft leadership, account teams, product and engineering groups, partners, and senior government executives, the Chief Technology Officer shapes Microsoft's most strategic Civilian engagements, guides use of the product portfolio, develops the Federal partner ecosystem, leads complex escalations and creates a framework of technical adoption that can be scaled by account aligned technical resources.

The successful candidate will be a technologist, strategist, customer advocate, partner leader, and business executive, equally at ease discussing enterprise architecture with engineers, mission priorities with a government CIO, account strategy with sales leadership, partner solutions with a systems integrator, and product requirements with Microsoft engineering. Above all, the Chief Technology Officer will connect what Federal Civilian customers need, what Microsoft and its partners can deliver today, what Microsoft should build next, and how technical differentiation becomes customer outcomes, platform adoption, and sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

• Business, Market, and Technology Strategy

• Provide strategic technology leadership for the Civilian and Tribal Nations business, ensuring customer mission priorities, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies inform business, investment, and go-to-market decisions.

• Represent the Civilian business in Federal and USPSI strategy development, and translate broader Microsoft priorities into actionable Civilian strategies

• Partner with account teams and customer executives to shape account-level technology and business strategy for Microsoft's most strategic Civilian customers and pursuits measured by growth and wins across the business.

• Provide Civilian leadership with a clear point of view on technology shifts on new and emerging technology, customer adoption signals, competitive developments, product risks, and areas where Microsoft should invest or change direction.

• Customer and Executive Engagement

• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to senior Federal leaders, including CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CAIOs, acquisition executives, and mission leaders.

• Guide customers in translating mission and modernization objectives into practical technology strategies, architectures, and transformation initiatives, particularly where the challenge spans multiple Microsoft technologies, engineering organizations, or partners.

• Serve as Technology Lead for major pursuits, enterprise transformations, strategic renewals, and significant escalations, balancing mission requirements, engineering realities, compliance obligations, and business considerations while preserving long-term customer trust.

• Represent Microsoft as an externa