CTO - Healthcare & Life Sciences

The Worldwide Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Industry CTO for Microsoft Frontier Company is the senior technology leader responsible for identifying, shaping, and scaling agentic technology patterns across the most strategic global HLS 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 inform 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 customer 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 HLS industry team with significant influence both internally and externally. If you are deeply technical, highly strategic, sales-oriented, and passionate about Healthcare and Life Sciences, this role is for you!

Technology Leadership for HLS Industry Define and evolve the HLS 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 high-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 leadership, industry advisors, account teams, and FDE studios to technically qualify and prioritize opportunities. Drive pattern recognition across FDE engagements and convert learnings into reusable architectures, playbooks, partner motions, and scalable solution assets. Help reduce friction & risk by identifying technical blockers, architectural gaps, compliance dependencies, and partner requirements. Ensure Microsoft Frontier Company engagements are grounded in customer mission outcomes, secure-by-design architectures, and clear paths to net-new cloud revenue and durable platform adoption. Executive Customer and Mission Engagement Build trusted relationships with senior customer technology leaders, serving as a strategic advisor on frontier technologies and agentic AI transformation. Engage directly in strategic accounts and high-priority opportunities to accelerate customer transformation, support executive decision-making, and strengthen Microsoft differentiation. Represent Microsoft in customer briefings, industry forums, standards bodies, policy discussions, and external events where HLS technology leadership and credibility are required. Translate Microsoft technology strategy into language that resonates with mission owners, acquisition leaders, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, and operational commanders.  Engineering, Product, and Compliance Influence Serve as a principal connection point between HLS customer needs and Microsoft Engineering,