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Senior Product Manager - Developer Architect
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 United States, Texas, Irving | |
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 Sep 12, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. Within the Security Customer Experience Engineering (CXE), our App Assure team builds strategic partnerships with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to drive innovation across the Microsoft Security ecosystem. We enable partners to adopt our latest product innovations and influence product roadmaps by testing new functionalities with key ISVs. As part of the Microsoft Security engineering team, we have unique opportunities to support production at scale and collaborate across Microsoft to deliver impactful solutions. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager-Developer Architect with deep technical experience in cloud-scale data platforms, connector design, and agent development. This role is instrumental in guiding top ISVs to build third-party agents and analytics pipelines on Microsoft Sentinel's modern data lake infrastructure, leveraging Spark, KQL, and ML-based models for advanced threat detection and investigation workflows. The focus is on enabling scalable, production-grade integrations and agents for Sentinel's data lake, supporting extensibility across Copilot for Security and other Cloud Ecosystem Security (CES) products. We prioritize partnerships that inform our product roadmap based on real-world integration requirements, with emphasis on APIs and extensibility. Our goal is to ensure every release is scalable and supportable, minimizing custom integration and providing a sustainable path for growth for both Microsoft and our partners. If you are passionate about cybersecurity, possess deep technical experience in connector and agent development, and have a solid background in Microsoft security product integration, we invite you to join the Microsoft Security CXE team. Together, we can shape the future of secure, intelligent cloud solutions for customers and partners worldwide. 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 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.
ResponsibilitiesSentinel data lake Developer Enablement: Architect and guide ISVs in building third-party agents and analytics pipelines on Sentinel's modern data lake infrastructure, leveraging Spark, KQL, and ML-based models for advanced threat detection and investigation workflows3rd party Connector Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-grade connectors and integrations between Microsoft Security products (such as Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR) and third-party ISV solutions, ensuring seamless data ingestion, incident synchronization, and automated event management.Core Networking Experience: Demonstrated technical proficiency and deep passion for core networking technologies across on-premises and cloud environments, including DHCP, VLANs, IPsec, and BGP.Architecture design: help our engineering teams design scalable extensibility frameworks by prioritizing modular APIs, standardized interfaces and reusable components over fragmented custom solutions, ensuring long-term adaptability and reduced maintenance overhead. This approach minimizes technical debt from one-off integrations.Strategic Investment: Serve as an architecture point of contact into the Microsoft Security engineering teams for select ISVs and be responsible for delivering architecture workshops and design sessions. Collaborate with cross-organization partners to evaluate trade-offs and prioritize investments in alignment with company objectives. Guide roadmap prioritization to achieve success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).Customer-Centric Insights: Proactively anticipate customer needs and market opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analyses. Identify patterns across a portfolio of feature areas and define the impact and prioritization of challenges. Leverage data-driven insights to guide decision-making. You will deliver product specific 'Outside/In' sessions through a formal feedback program, this provides our PM teams with an external perspective on their feature's vision, specifications, and architecture - both for the ISV integrating and the customer using the relevant feature/integration.Thought Leadership: Provide thought leadership within the team, addressing challenges and fostering a shared vision. Collaborate effectively to gain alignment and buy-in from group managers and other leaders. Rally the team around a common product direction.End-to-End Vision: Collaborate closely with the Feature Product Managers, Business Development, and other customer focused architects to drive the end-to-end product vision. Advocate priorities and resources, working across divisional boundaries to ensure successful execution.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, including strategic leadership and early adopting ISVs and Customers, to gather input and garner support for product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Work with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to define product integration release criteria, customer acquisition strategies, and content creation. Strategize and lead the transition of ISV feature integrations from private preview to public preview and then to general availability.Effective Communication: Communicate the product strategy to both internal and external audiences using various methods, including conference presentations and collaboration with partner organizations. Build consensus and alignment around the product vision.Embody our Culture and Values | |