Are you interested in working on novel legal and regulatory issues at the forefront of cloud computing for one of the largest cloud computing companies in the world? If so, come join the legal team supporting Microsoft’s Cloud + Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) division in the role of Senior Corporate Counsel, Enterprise Cloud Services Regulatory Oversight.

The C+AI Trusted Platform Legal Team provides direct support to the C+AI Trusted Platform compliance engineering team, which drives legal and regulatory compliance programs, initiatives, and requirements across the enterprise products and services in the C+AI business division at Microsoft, including Azure, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform. This team counsels its clients across a variety of legal domains and engineering disciplines, including data governance, security, residency, privacy, digital safety, responsible AI, financial services compliance, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and global availability engineering. This team does this in partnership with key stakeholders across engineering and legal subject matter expert teams.

This attorney will serve as an embedded regulatory oversight engineering attorney within the C+AI Trusted Platform legal team and engage in a combination of engineering client-facing support, ongoing regulator-facing interaction and engagement, and management of major regulatory initiatives across the company. This attorney will engage directly with U.S. and global banking regulators and drive compliance across impacted C+AI enterprise products and services to build Microsoft’s position as a trusted partner for banking and other highly-regulated enterprise cloud services customers.

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Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor and primary legal counsel for the C+AI Trusted Platform Regulatory Oversight Team. Counsel engineering clients on strategy and program development for regulatory oversight operations, including by preparing for and engaging in regulatory discussions and engagements, reviewing document productions, and assisting clients with risk assessments and development of strategic positions.

• Work with clients and subject matter experts to identify clear, legally supportable, business-centric positions in response to regulatory requests and demands with a focus on Microsoft Online Services customer trust commitments, including those related to data protection and confidentiality.

• Partner with key cross-company partners, including Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, and the Board of Directors to ensure preparation of timely and responsive content in response to regulatory inquiries.

• Provide legal support to the Trusted Platform Customer Compliance & Regulatory Engagement team. Work with clients to proactively address and mitigate issues raised by a variety of regulatory entities and regulated customers, with a focus on financial services customers and regulators.

• Partner with enterprise compliance engineering Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) teams in the Enterprise & Devices (E+D) and Security divisions to harmonize internal requirements and external narratives across diverse products and services.

• Partner with a variety of Microsoft subject-matter experts (SMEs), including Commerce/Payments & FinTech, Privacy & Regulatory Affairs, Intellectual Property Group, Competition, Office of Critical Infrastructure, Office of Responsible AI, Digital Safety, Environmental Sustainability, and others, to track and interpret regulatory requirements and developments worldwide. Identify developments that may impact the design, distribution, sale, or use of enterprise products and services and explore and advocate for positions that could mitigate such impacts.

• Work with relevant SME teams to translate finalized legal and regulatory requirements into engineering-facing guidance that can be operationalized at scale.

• Work with clients to promote compliance by design in engineering architecture, programs, or processes. Identify and anticipate legal risks in the client’s technology, program design, or process design and assist clients with developing creative solutions and alternatives to mitigate potential risk in a cost-effective way.

• Provide advice grounded in an understanding of how relevant laws and regulations may impact regulator relationships and the development and distribution of enterprise products and services.

• Create efficiencies by developing scalable resources, distributing helpful information, providing presentations and trainings, and holding office hours.

Other

• Embody ourCulture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate Degree or Equivalent International Degree

• OR Completion of a Legal Apprenticeship.

• Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.

• 7+ years experience as a practicing attorney

• OR equivalent practice of law.

• Experience counseling engineering or other technical clients and translating legal requirements into actionable engineering-facing guidance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing and driving to closure long-term, highly-matrixed, cross-organizational projects

• Familiarity with hyperscale cloud computing and Microsoft Online Services (or equivalent) at a level that enables effective partnership with engineering clients on identifying strategic positions that both meet regulatory requirements and support confidentiality and customer trust commitments

• Familiarity with U.S. and global banking regulations, including the Bank Service Company Act (BSCA), the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA)

• Familiarity with the operations and governance of U.S. federal banking agencies (FBAs), including knowledge of examination procedures of the FBAs (e.g., the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Banks)

• Keen business sense, ability to think strategically and communicate effectively, and ability to establish a trusted advisor relationship with business and engineering clients

• Ability to lead and drive to resolution complex projects with diverse stakeholders in varied disciplines and geographies; willingness to be available for occasional evening and early morning meetings with stakeholders in different time zones

• Experience responding to requests or inquiries from enterprise customers, regulatory entities, non-governmental organizations, or standards bodies

• General familiarity with a variety of compliance standards, security controls, audit processes, and certifications (e.g., ISO, SOC, NIST, Risk Management frameworks)

• Flexible and analytical thinker able to quickly and accurately identify legal issues in a complex environment and to develop solutions by exercising confident judgment in ambiguous situations

• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and prioritize workflow when faced with competing demands

• Desire and ability to work as part of a team and with diverse personalities, groups, and cultures

Legal Counsel IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $141,800 - $248,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $179,300 - $268,900 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

• Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 5, 2024.

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