Careers at Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Program Manager II Job number: 853557 Location: Lagos Travel: 0-25 % Profession: Engineering Role type: Individual Contributor Employment type: Full-Time

Details

• The Microsoft device ecosystem is evolving rapidly. The natural, ambient, and context-aware experiences that the Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge enables requires a constant flow of updates to keep the edge up to date and secure. This includes frequent update of AI that powers inference at the edge and in the cloud. The Windows ecosystem is a community of a billion devices with unmatched diversity of hardware and software, competitors, form-factors, and frequent releases. Ensuring windows devices are update-to-date and secure is at the core of Windows as a Service (WaaS).
• As we’ve evolved our Windows Update capability for a SaaS delivery model, we’ve learned how important it is for the update experience to harmonize with our mission to empower users to be more productive. User experience and productivity is materially impacted when updates go wrong, when updates aren’t coordinated, or when updates aren’t installed in a timely manner. This is as true on PCs and Macs as it is on digital signs, security cameras, connected vehicles and other IoT device workloads. Microsoft is uniquely positioned, with our cloud and intelligence capabilities and a track record of performing software servicing and delivery at unmatched scale, and experience that disappears into the background of modern life and modern work.
• Our teams charter is to build an Azure service aimed at our enterprise customers and partners that can drive efficiency into their app validation workloads, with intelligence and tools to manage it. We believe in being experimental, learning constantly, being scrappy while bringing order to disorder, helping each other as humans and professionals to be our best possible selves. We believe great ideas come from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive styles. We actively create an environment where everyone’s ideas can be heard and can contribute toward a much better end result. We live and breathe Microsoft’s mission to empower every single person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer demand signals into release priorities, and ensure business growth
• Engage directly with customers, ISV’s and SI’s, at the CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships.
• Discover innovation scenarios that make Azure the cloud of choice for app validation.
• Establish adoption strategies and execution plans to drive growth
• Drive decisive action in partnership with other Microsoft field team and deliver results that depend on other divisions and external partners.
• Remove customer barriers to cloud adoption around the world.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years product development engineering experience with at least 2 years as a Program Manager.
• Detail oriented and results driven.
• Excellent skill in authoring precision functional specifications.
• Must be able to work well in a team environment and with ambiguity.
• Technical depth in feature and cross-dependency architectures.
• Ability to understand a range of hardware/software technologies.
• Ability to drive clarity in chaos and organize people’s workload
• Strong focus on engineering excellence and culture
• Ability to work well with and articulate ideas to people: customers, developers, UX designers, executives.

Preferential experience:

• Familiarity with fundamentals of cloud-native services, Microservice architecture and Container technologies
• Linux and open source project experience
• Familiarity with Live Site and DevOps best practices
• Experience with ML/AI and statistics
• Experience developing APIs and coding.

Benefits and Perks Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Job Title: Account Technology Strategist Job number: 852658 Location: Lagos, Nigeria Travel: 0.25% Profession: Technical Sales Role type: Individual Contributor Employment type: Full-Time

Responsibilities As an Account Technology Strategist, you'll be acting as your customer’s virtual Chief Technology Officer, and will be expected to:

• Utilize your knowledge of enterprise architecture and Microsoft cloud services (including the latest innovations and solutions) to create roadmaps to your customers' desired future state.
• Build strong relationships with Chief Technology Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Security Officers, other technical and business decision makers, and the developer community as their trusted technology advisor.
• Orchestrate activities across Microsoft and Partner resources to maximize business results, customer success and satisfaction.
• Demonstrate change management leadership skills by assisting customers with new business models, process and workflow changes, and employee impact assessments as they move towards the desired future state.
• Drive long-term growth by focusing on sustainable usage of cloud solutions that align to customer objectives and business value.
• Share your broad technical knowledge of the Microsoft platform, our competition, and the industry with customers by sharing customer and general IT landscape insights with your Microsoft colleagues.

Account Technology Strategists are unique in their:

• Broad knowledge of Microsoft’s enterprise platform and their ability to map relevant Microsoft technologies to customer IT and business needs and priorities.
• Ability to build long-term trusted technology advisor relationships that result in solid, meaningful strategic technology conversations.
• In-depth knowledge of customer technology environments.
• Ability to ensure that customers benefit from the latest Microsoft innovations and solutions.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar information technology-related, or engineering discipline degree required. Master's degree preferred.

Key experiences, skills, and knowledge:

• Proven ability to learn quickly, adapt, and master new concepts and technologies to drive their adoption and usage required
• Min 5 years Pre-Sales experience.
• Strong Digital Transformation experience and able to drive customer conversations.
• Business Application experience (CRM, ERP, Cloud)
• Strong technical skills required, with enterprise architecture experience or certification preferred
• Experience in Business Consulting or Consultative Selling, and extensive experience working within Teams preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with equally good listening skills is essential
• Experience in Project Management preferred
• Additional training or education in Business, Sales, or Marketing preferred

Benefits and Perks Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Job Number: 853593 Location: Lagos, Nigeria Travel: 0-25 % Profession: Engineering Role type: Individual Contributor Employment type: Full-Time

Job Descriptions

• Imagine this: you finally finish writing that code. Now comes the tedious part - setting up the testing environment with the latest versions of all the tools you need. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have this easily available to you?
• Millions of our enterprise customers and software vendors deal with this every month. It slows down their progress and makes their lives a little less fun. They cannot easily re-test their code as new security updates for Windows come out every month.
• What if you could help solve this painful, recurring problem for customers around the globe? We’re building a Cloud service that uses intelligence to tackle this important problem. We want people like you to build this service from zero to world-class maturity.
• We believe in being experimental, learning constantly, being scrappy while bringing order to disorder, helping each other as humans and professionals to be our best possible selves.
• We believe great ideas come from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive styles.
• We actively create an environment where everyone’s ideas can be heard and can contribute toward a much better end result. We live and breathe Microsoft’s mission to empower every single person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Responsibilities This job might be for you if:

• You’re intrapreneurial and love being a founding member of teams
• You love to roll up your sleeves and solve problems
• You are excited about open source projects
• You love making and testing prototypes with real customers
• You get excited about solving real problems that impact a large number of lives
• You’re optimistic that we can help traditional industries with their digital transformation with cool new tech

Qualifications You have experience with:

• Object-oriented languages like Java/C#
• Web technologies like Javascript
• Scripting languages like Python/Powershell
• Working with Big Data
• You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or 3+ years experience building online services and data solutions

Benefits and Perks Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Note: 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