Lease Delivery Program Manager

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World’s largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide, and we are looking for Senior Lease Delivery Program Manager, Datacenter Portfolio Management to help achieve our mission. If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated, want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, possess effective technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out of the box thinking then this job is for you! We are looking for an experienced Senior Lease Delivery Program Manager, with deep technical and business effectiveness, trusted leadership and demonstrated large-scale program management success. You should be a program leader who can integrate delivery, project controls, procurement, contracts, and enterprise stakeholders to remove execution friction, strengthen commercial and operational outcomes, and support delivery teams through clear governance, commercial escalation leadership, and portfolio-level risk visibility.   In this role, the successful candidate will partner closely with key portfolio leaders to drive programs focused on transforming how we deliver data centers to our customers. These programs will be on the leading edge of innovation and will include driving pilots and other first of kind programs that shape ongoing strategy in delivering data centers efficiently and on schedule. You balance effective analytical and technical skills with the ability to influence decision makers within the CO+I leadership and execution teams spread across the rest of Azure. You will also partner closely with related teams including our design engineering, construction, networking and data center project management teams.   The Lease Delivery Program Manager enables predictable AMERS lease delivery through commercial compliance, strategic execution governance, change control, and cross-functional decision acceleration. This role aligns delivery, project controls, procurement, contracts, engineering, and lease-provider stakeholders to turn risks, changes, and compliance issues into clear priorities, decisions, and accountable actions.

Key Responsibilities Lead LDPM program operations for AMERS Lease delivery, establishing priority forums, action tracking, and executive-ready escalation paths that convert controls reporting into timely decisions and measurable outcomes. Drive commercial compliance across lease delivery by interpreting contract obligations, milestone commitments, notice requirements, rights, remedies, and performance expectations in partnership with legal, contracts, procurement, and delivery stakeholders. Own commercial escalation mechanisms, including escalation logs, alignment records, decision narratives, action owners, due dates, and closed-loop resolution tracking with lease providers and internal stakeholders. Lead strategic execution alignment by connecting commercial strategy, procurement readiness, contract actions, RFS commitments, project controls signals, and delivery milestones to a common execution plan. Operate change control governance for design, technology, scope, procurement, and commercial changes; ensure intake, review, impact assessment, escalation, approval routing, and implementation decisions are consistently documented and governed. Translate schedule, cost, milestone, risk, compliance, and change signals into clear priorities, mitigation plans, leadership asks, and decision-ready recommendations that reduce downstream delivery impacts. Coordinate cross-functional alignment across delivery, project controls, procurement, contracts, engineering, risk, finance, and lease providers to