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LAYIQ - Chief Technology Officer (US Federal Civilian) - CTJ - Secret at Microsoft

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 external technology voice at customer forums, government technology events, industry conferences, and executive briefings.
Technology Portfolio and Government Cloud Leadership
Maintain an integrated view of the Microsoft portfolio as it applies to Federal Civilian missions, spanning cloud and hybrid infrastructure, cybersecurity and identity, AI, data, application modernization, contact center, business applications, and collaboration.
Guide customers and account teams through architectural tradeoffs, product dependencies, service limitations, and emerging capabilities across commercial and government cloud environments.
Apply Federal cybersecurity, compliance, and authorization requirements, including NIST SP 800-53 and 800-171, CUI protection, Authority to Operate, and data sovereignty, to strategy, architecture, and product adoption, engaging specialized expertise where required.
Identify repeatable technology patterns, solutions, and engagement models for application across Civilian accounts.
Product and Engineering Influence
Serve as the principal connection between the Federal Civilian market and Microsoft product and engineering organizations.
Aggregate customer, partner, and field feedback into systemic product gaps, roadmap priorities, and adoption barriers, prioritized by mission impact, growth potential, and competitive significance.
Ensure clear, credible, and consistent communication regarding product capabilities, roadmap direction, limitations, and dependencies.
Federal Partner and Ecosystem Strategy
Develop and execute an end-to-end Civilian partner engagement strategy aligned to the business's technology priorities and growth objectives.
Build executive and technical relationships with Federal systems integrators, solution providers, independent software vendors, and small businesses that influence customer technology decisions and mission outcomes.
Ensure priority partners incorporate Microsoft's latest cloud, AI, security, data, and application capabilities into their solutions, reference architectures, managed services, and go-to-market strategies.
Bring partner requirements, technical barriers, and competitive intelligence back to the business and to product and engineering, and evaluate partner engagement by technical capability, platform adoption, and contribution to growth.
Technical Community Leadership
Provide strategic direction, mentorship, and practical frameworks and messaging to architects, technology strategists, specialists, and customer success teams, developing leaders who operate effectively with senior government executives, partners, and Microsoft engineering.
Share customer insights, reusable architectures, competitive intelligence, and lessons learned across teams, and align account, technical, partner, and business teams around the Civilian technology agenda.
Foster a culture of customer advocacy, technical excellence, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning, leading through influence across a large and highly matrixed organization.

10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, technology strategy, architecture, engineering, consulting, or technical sales, including 5+ years working with or supporting the US Federal Government with significant Federal Civilian exposure.
Experience advising senior government or enterprise executives, including CIO, CTO, CISO, CDO, CAIO, mission, and acquisition leaders, on complex technology and transformation decisions.
Broad technical expertise across cloud and hybrid infrastructure, cybersecurity and identity, AI, data, and application modernization, with the ability to evaluate complex architectures spanning commercial cloud, government cloud, and hybrid environments.
Demonstrated experience translating customer mission objectives into technology strategy, and technology trends into executable customer and business strategies for large, complex government or enterprise accounts.
Working knowledge of the Federal cybersecurity, compliance, and government cloud environment, including FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 and 800-171, CUI protection, FIPS, DFARS, and Authority to Operate processes.
Demonstrated experience developing technology and go-to-market strategies with Federal systems integrators, solution providers, independent software vendors, and strategic technology partners.
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than direct authority, to navigate complex escalations and competing priorities while maintaining executive trust, and to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
15+ years of Federal technology industry experience, including service as a CTO, Chief Architect, or comparable senior technical leader, and experience shaping major public-sector transformations, strategic pursuits, or enterprise agreements.
Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure including it’s data and cyber services, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Copilot and AI platforms, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, GitHub, and associated data and application development platforms.
Established credibility as a technology leader through executive engagements, industry forums, public speaking, or publications, and a record of influencing product strategy or government cloud roadmaps.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Master’s or Ph.D level program completion in related field.
Top Secret clearance preferred.

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

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