Worldwide Government, Defense, & Intelligence Industry CTO

Microsoft Frontier Company is Microsoft's outcome-driven AI engineering and delivery business, a global organization of industry experts, world-class architects, forward-deployed engineers, consultants, and delivery professionals who work together to bring Microsoft's mission of empowerment and cutting-edge technology to life for the world's most influential customers. Frontier Company is helping shape how AI, delivery discipline, and deep industry expertise come together to create faster, better, and more measurable customer outcomes, embedding our experts directly with customers to co-design, deploy, operate, and continuously improve AI systems tied to real business impact. We work side by side with customers across the full Frontier Transformation journey and pride ourselves on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world.  The Worldwide Government, Defense, & Intelligence (GD&I) Industry CTO for Microsoft Frontier Company is the  technology leader responsible for identifying, shaping, and scaling agentic technology patterns across the most strategic global Government, Defense, Intelligence, and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) customers. This role translates complex mission needs into repeatable, secure, compliant agentic solution patterns that deliver real-world value and impactful mission outcomes. The CTO serves as the bridge between industry advisors, forward deployed engineering (FDE), product groups, and industry leadership to connect customer demand, market signals, technical roadmaps, and repeatable solution opportunities. They shape engineering roadmap direction based on industry priorities, and anticipate emerging technologies, opportunities, and blockers as the world evolves. They are skilled at pattern recognition, identifying common customer needs and ensuring Microsoft Frontier Company delivers mission outcomes that translate to value for both the customer and for Microsoft. The CTO will help Microsoft win priority strategic customers, shape the Frontier and FDE opportunity pipeline, influence engineering product and platform roadmaps, and scale proven patterns across markets, partners, and customer segments. This role is externally visible with public sector leaders, partners, and standards bodies, as well as internally influential across Microsoft, Engineering, Partner, Legal & Gov Affairs, and Field Sales communities. It is a senior individual contributor role on the GD&I industry team with significant influence both internally and externally. If you are technical, strategic, sales-oriented, and passionate about Government, Defense, and Intelligence missions, this role 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.

Technology Leadership for GD& I Define and evolve the GD&I technology vision for Microsoft Frontier Company, with emphasis on AI, agentic solutions, security, sovereignty, and regulatory compliance. Serve as the bridge between industry advisors, FDE studios, engineering, industry leadership, and field sales, connecting customer demand, market signals, roadmap gaps, and repeatable solution patterns. Prioritize impact, scalable opportunities where Frontier Company can create differentiated customer outcomes and measurable business impact. Shape technology roadmaps by converting customer and regulatory requirements into actionable engineering feedback and product priorities. FDE Opportunity Shaping and Technical Qualification Partner with industry