diff --git a/.ci/generate-buildkite-pipeline-premerge b/.ci/generate-buildkite-pipeline-premerge
index 9d9ca32183944..e547afaeb722f 100755
--- a/.ci/generate-buildkite-pipeline-premerge
+++ b/.ci/generate-buildkite-pipeline-premerge
@@ -128,9 +128,8 @@ if [[ "${windows_projects}" != "" ]]; then
         limit: 2
   timeout_in_minutes: 150
   env:
-    CC: 'cl'
-    CXX: 'cl'
-    LD: 'link'
+    MAX_PARALLEL_COMPILE_JOBS: '16'
+    MAX_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS: '4'
   commands:
   - 'C:\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat -arch=amd64 -host_arch=amd64'
   - 'bash .ci/monolithic-windows.sh "$(echo ${windows_projects} | tr ' ' ';')" "$(echo ${windows_check_targets})"'
diff --git a/.ci/monolithic-windows.sh b/.ci/monolithic-windows.sh
index 68303a3ea153a..57b276f3e1df0 100755
--- a/.ci/monolithic-windows.sh
+++ b/.ci/monolithic-windows.sh
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ echo "--- cmake"
 pip install -q -r "${MONOREPO_ROOT}"/mlir/python/requirements.txt
 pip install -q -r "${MONOREPO_ROOT}"/.ci/requirements.txt
 
+export CC=cl
+export CXX=cl
+export LD=link
+
 # The CMAKE_*_LINKER_FLAGS to disable the manifest come from research
 # on fixing a build reliability issue on the build server, please
 # see https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/82393 and
@@ -72,8 +76,8 @@ cmake -S "${MONOREPO_ROOT}"/llvm -B "${BUILD_DIR}" \
       -D CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="/MANIFEST:NO" \
       -D CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS="/MANIFEST:NO" \
       -D CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="/MANIFEST:NO" \
-      -D LLVM_PARALLEL_COMPILE_JOBS=16 \
-      -D LLVM_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS=4
+      -D LLVM_PARALLEL_COMPILE_JOBS=${MAX_PARALLEL_COMPILE_JOBS} \
+      -D LLVM_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS=${MAX_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS}
 
 echo "--- ninja"
 # Targets are not escaped as they are passed as separate arguments.