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At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
The Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX) team, a part of the Windows + Devices (W+D) engineering organization, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to partner with us to build and ship the next generation version of Windows that will touch the lives of 1 Billion+ users worldwide! Help us build modern, intuitive, iconic and delightful user experiences that will propel Windows into the 2020’s.
We are looking for data-driven and customer-obsessed engineers who like the challenge of working on features that span the entire development stack across the Windows OS, applications and devices and form factors that run the Windows OS, join us to define and deliver the next generation of Windows and the future of how humans experience computing.
You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows. We’re looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.
You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows. We’re looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will
Be a technical leader on the team
Write technical documentation to describe technical details of your work with architects and key stakeholders
Effectively collaborate with talented peers across discipline (PM, Design, Data and Applied Science) to deliver on your work
Deliver strongly on your areas of technical ownership
Drive building a positive culture on the team that aligns with Microsoft’s values
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
5+ years of experience designing, building and shipping software at scale with a C-style programming language (C / C++)
Strong problem solving, debugging and analytical skills
Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Ability to collaborate with teams across different time zones and geographies
Experience building native Win32/UWP Windows applications, UI frameworks like WinUI/XAML/UWP/WPF/WinForms is an advantage.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
You can help us achieve our mission.
Microsoft has an immediate opportunity for a highly skilled attorney within the Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) team in Middle East and Africa (MEA), to support the Africa Transformation Office (ATO). The attorney will oversee legal and government affairs issues affecting Microsoft’s business and investments across Africa through the ATO.
The attorney will work closely with the CELA MEA HQ team and the local CELA teams for each of the subsidiaries in Africa, including South Africa, Egypt, and the Multi-Country Cluster, which includes Kenya and Morocco, among others.
Given the diversity and geographic dispersity of the region, the ATO CELA Director will play a strategic role in helping close important deals, prioritizing opportunities across the region and identifying common problems and solutions that can and should be scaled across the continent.
The successful candidate will be an excellent collaborator and orchestrator, particularly across groups and teams within Microsoft. A bias for action is a must.
The attorney should have the ability to create and develop business opportunities by leveraging the full range of CELA assets, including Industry, Global Government Affairs, Commercial, the Digital Crimes Unit, and Microsoft’s corporate social responsibility narrative and assets.
The role can be based in Abuja, Lagos, Nairobi, or Cairo.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The attorney serves on the MEA Leadership Team (LT) and acts as a general advisor to the ATO business leadership on all legal and government affairs issues, in many instances addressing novel legal, regulatory and policy questions. This person coordinates with the MEA CELA teams as well as internal and external subject-matter experts to ensure coverage of all legal and government affairs matters critical to the ATO.
The attorney supports commercial transactions and partnership driven by the ATO. These transactions range from programmatic licensing agreements to unique marketing and digital transformation business arrangements.
The attorney has primary responsibility for ensuring compliance of the ATO team with all relevant laws and regulations.
The attorney is responsible for identifying opportunities where the ATO team can standardize and simplify processes, create breadth and scale mechanisms, and orchestrate solutions to problems that cross organizations and geographies.
Serves as a trusted advisor and strategic business partner to senior executives and colleagues within and outside of CELA by providing counsel on a broad range of interdependent issues (e.g., legal, business, public relations, government affairs, and corporate affairs,) and the impact laws could have on their businesses; collaborates and advises on strategy to drive meaningful conversations grounded in in-depth awareness of Microsoft and its industry; partners with the business to create solutions that enable business performance.
Drafts new and novel policies and agreements; negotiates a variety of transactional documents (e.g., procurement agreement, joint development deal, settlement agreements, inbound and outbound licensing); provides strategic guidance and coordinates with Legal and Corporate Affairs colleagues on partner transactions and negotiations; advocates Microsoft interests in transactions, litigations, and proceedings.
Ensures business is being conducted in a legally compliant manner and mitigates associated risks; advises and helps clients understand complex compliance issues; facilitates development of creative solutions to complex issues
Strategy / Program Management:
Provides strategic vision and leadership for developing and executing top-priority program frameworks for achieving policy and/or political goals.
Directs strategies to ensure regulations and legislation positively impact Microsoft’s products, operations, associates, and customers by collaborating with coalitions and relevant interest groups to achieve desired regulatory or legislative outcomes; negotiates and aligns complex or conflicting policy with Microsoft’s goals and strategy; monitors and responds to complex regulatory issues and new policies.
Subject Matter Expertise and Influence:
Develops and implements strategies for leveraging partnerships with external partners, international and regional organizations, and key influencers in Africa to significantly impact the advancement of Microsoft’s policy and societal impact projects in Africa.
Maintains relationships with key influencers to gather and apply intelligence findings through a network of key senior executives and external stakeholders regarding highly strategic or sensitive issues affecting Microsoft’s long-term objectives or future issues.
Operational Excellence:
Proactively partners across internal groups to develop and advocate policies and best practices related to legal and regulatory issues; fosters communication, collaboration, and the sharing of best practices; proactively investigates and identifies tools and processes in use across the company.
Communication:
Leads and encourages collaboration with the CELA leadership team, Microsoft senior executives, and ATO to ensure a coordinated CELA voice on issues with Microsoft-wide impact or high external visibility.
Qualifications
Juris Doctorate Degree or Equivalent International Law Degree.
15 years experience as an attorney with experience in developing and managing strategic relationships to advocate and influence public policy and regulatory priorities across Africa.
Active license to practice law in relevant jurisidiction.
Deep understanding of the intersection of law, policy, and technology.
Experience managing attorneys and/or other professionals.
Experience dealing with diverse cultures and teams and a proven record of building strong client relationships.
Excellent team player with the ability to work and communicate with senior management, across teams, in a high-pressured business environment, with a flexible, open, collaborative and results-oriented attitude.
Job Number: 1320412 Location: Nigeria
Employment type: Full-Time
Profession: Program Management
Role type: Individual Contributor
Travel: 0 – 25 %
Overview
The Emerging Markets team is responsible for research, incubation, product engineering, and strategic partnerships that drive cross-company strategy as well as value creation in emerging markets for Azure.
The team drives engineering strategies and solutions, focusing on opportunities to catalyze the next areas of growth for Azure maximizing utilization of our regions globally covering India, Middle East & Africa, LATAM, and SE Asia.
Responsibilities
We are looking for an energetic Principal Program Manager who has customer-first mindset and passion for cloud technologies to manage our external customer and partner relationships in Nigeria.
The ideal candidate is someone who is on top of industry trends, ready to dive into tech and has a proven capability working with partners.
In this role you would drive and manage some of Microsoft’s most strategic partnerships in the region and this would require collaborating with teams and executives across Microsoft and partners, understanding technical and milestone details – staying focused on the big picture, all the while continually pushing the teams toward success.
You will also work closely with some of our strategic customers to help define technology strategy and drive development and adoption of our solutions.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, similar Engineering discipline, or equivalent industry experience
Experience driving technical strategic partnership and business development with key stakeholders
Proven experience engaging customers and partners
Technically proficient in Azure
Strong negotiation skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to tailor presentations to different audiences
Working knowledge of performing market analysis, competitive tear-downs and customer research to validate project priorities and direction
Self-starter who can work in ambiguous environments, keeping the shared goals in mind.
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior PM or engineering experience
Prior experience in working in Nigeria
Demonstrated customer focus and end-to-end thinking for technical projects
Highly effective communication with senior stakeholders including General Manager level audience.
Desired Attributes:
Experience driving technical strategic partnership and business development with key stakeholders.
Proven experience engaging customers and partners
Technically proficient in Azure
Strong negotiation skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to tailor presentations to different audiences
Working knowledge of performing market analysis, competitive tear-downs and customer research to validate project priorities and direction.
Self-starter who can work in ambiguous environments, keeping the shared goals in mind
Be a trusted advisor representing our strategic customers’ requirements to inform and influence product planning and feature prioritization.
Deliver Strategic Plans in partnership with technology subject matter experts to define Azure EM priorities based on analysis of customer patterns, industry trends and product investments.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job Number: 1325392 Location: Nigeria
Employment type: Full-Time
Profession: Engineering
Role type: People Manager
Travel: 0-25 %
Overview
The Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX ) team, a part of the Windows + Devices (W+D) engineering organization, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer Manager to partner with us to build and ship the next generation version of Windows that will touch the lives of 1 Billion+ users worldwide! Help us build the Windows Engineering System that enables the development team to bring new Windows features to customers with the highest quality while maximizing developer efficiency.
We are looking for data-driven and customer-obsessed engineers who like the challenge of working on features, technologies, and engineering tooling. Our work spans a breadth of technologies around the Windows OS, applications and devices.
You will lead a team of engineers, relentlessly focused on product quality and engineering efficiencies. We are looking for an engineering leader to bring their passion, drive and technical acumen to help us accomplish these goals.
Responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager, you will:
Manage a team of 4-8 Software Engineers.
Set technical directions for the team.
Collaborate with other Engineering teams and managers.
Effectively collaborate with a globally distributed team across different time zones and disciplines.
Lead by example and set the culture for the team that aligns with Microsoft values.
Be willing to try new things and be curious.
Grow and mentor your team.
Work closely with your Program Management team to build a plan that is achievable.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
5+ years of experience designing, building and shipping software at scale with a C-style programming language (C, C++, C# or Java).
1+ years leading a team of engineers.
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.
Exceptional collaboration and leadership skills, with a proven ability to work well with a global, diverse team, partners, and customers.
Ability to collaborate with teams across different time zones and geographies
Experience with UI frameworks like XAML/UWP is an advantage.
Passionate about engineering quality and efficiency.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
In Mixed Reality, people-not devices-are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together – whether that’s colleagues brainstorming around a giant digital whiteboard, scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars, or some yet undreamt-of possibility.
To get there, we’re incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, and more.
We’re a diverse team of talented Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Artists putting technology on a human path across all devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Kinect for Azure, the Internet of Things, Phones, Tablets, Desktops, Xbox, and Surface Hub. We believe Mixed Reality technology empowers every person and organization to achieve more. If you do too, we need you!
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Mixed Reality Services team to design, develop and test the next generation of technology solutions for millions of people.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Be a technical leader on the team and deliver on your areas of technical ownership.
Write technical documentation to describe technical details of your work with architects and key stakeholders.
Effectively collaborate with peers across discipline (PM, Research) to deliver on your work.
Drive building a positive culture on the team that aligns with Microsoft’s values.
Qualifications
6+ years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
Ability to demonstrate understanding of algorithms, data structures and other systems architecture factors that affect code quality, performance, and customer experience.
Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.
Demonstrated skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.
In Mixed Reality, people-not devices-are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together – whether that’s colleagues brainstorming around a giant digital whiteboard, scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars, or some yet undreamt-of possibility.
To get there, we’re incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, and more.
We’re a diverse team of talented Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Artists putting technology on a human path across all devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Kinect for Azure, the Internet of Things, Phones, Tablets, Desktops, Xbox, and Surface Hub
We believe Mixed Reality technology empowers every person and organization to achieve more. If you do too, we need you!
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Azure Mixed Reality Services team to design, develop and test the next generation of technology solutions for millions of people.
Software engineers (SWEs) work with teammates to solve problems and build innovative software solutions.
You are passionate about customers and product quality, and you provide technical guidance to Program Managers as they consider user needs and product requirements.
You will also be expected to demonstrate an ability to learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes to leverage in your solutions.
Qualifications
Basic:
2+ years of demonstrated expertise in C#, Java, C/C++ or equivalent programming languages and multi-threaded programming.
Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.
Experience building software outside of the classroom environment like an internship, hackathon, research project or related experience
Preferred:
Ability to demonstrate understanding of algorithms, data structures and other systems architecture factors that affect code quality, performance, and customer experience
Demonstrated skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.
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