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  • Senior Software Engineer- Africa Development Center

    Senior Software Engineer- Africa Development Center

    The Identity Engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s online identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.We are seeking experienced and passionate Software Engineers to help grow a team focused on the Microsoft Graph integration of Azure Active Directory, delivering innovative solutions to support Microsoft Identity Platform’s growing app ecosystem. The team is energetic, passionate, and works together like a family to create and ship these new capabilities and cutting-edge technologies.Also, our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us – it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members many opportunities for learning and career growth.We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!Responsibilities

    Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions
    Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews
    System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions
    Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are: well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
    Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
    Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered
    Exposes test coverage issues, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas
    Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
    Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
    Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for LiveSite 

    Qualifications

    5+ years of software development and design experience
    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or completion of a Code/Developer academy program
    Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, .NET
    Experience in open-source software development

  • Principal Technical Account Manager

    Principal Technical Account Manager

    The Principal Technical Account Manager (PTAM) oversees a number of key functions to ensure our customers receive the most from their Microsoft Support relationship. As a PTAM, you are responsible for the support Services relationship, including managing the delivery of all support services, customer satisfaction, while driving business growth for Microsoft and supporting our customers on their digital transformation. This will require you to establish and manage expectations within the customers business and drive the IT teams to achieve those expectations to a high standard.
    ResponsibilitiesIt’s all about equipping Clients with the capability to provide excellence in Service Delivery Planning & Management. As the conduit between the Subsidiary countries across West, East and Central Africa and their Customers and our global resources, managing relationships with the Subsidiary country teams to enable their Clients to leverage the suite of proactive support services provided thru our global resources, related to improving a Clients operational health, IT setup and adoption of Cloud Services.The value that a Principal Technical Account Manager brings to Microsoft is increased Customer Satisfaction & Microsoft Unified Support Revenues thru the packaging, promotion and programmatic approach to selling of proactive Support Services that will help Microsoft Account teams in every Microsoft Subsidiary to grow their Premier Support business.Ensuring the Subsidiary are making the most of the proactive Support Services available to them to enable their Customers to achieve their IT & Business Outcomes. By engaging directly with the Sales & Delivery management teams in each Subsidiary to maximize their Premier Core Billed (PCB) and Customer Satisfaction results. As a key focal point for the role is to maximize PCB thru (i) Growing Renewals, (ii) Upselling more Add-On’s, and (iii) Developing an improved approach to presenting a more compelling value-proposition to all Customers <$100k revenue. Critical aspects to be successful in the role will be, (i) the partnership with Sales Excellence and Scale Delivery, who drive the weekly governance of “Renewals & Outcomes,” (ii) personal involvement in the monthly review that HQ has with Subsidiary Sales & Delivery management, and (iii) formulating a simplified catalog of the Support Offerings with pricing to increase penetration in each Customer segment.Key Accountabilities Include CUSTOMER - Creates a strategic support relationship with key stakeholders within our customer organizations, both within IT and their business groups to enable quality delivery aligned to their business outcomes. TAMs focus on understanding the customer’s business and IT objectives in order to develop and manage the delivery of services to enable customers to realize the of value of Microsoft products and cloud services. The TAM must be a change agent by articulating the case for change and helping our customers evolve their IT maturity, drive productive use of Microsoft products, and enable and support IT to make the business more effective. BUSINESS - The TAM is responsible for sustainable growth through routinely partnering across a One Microsoft team to strategize on ways to create new opportunities within the accounts they service. The TAM is responsible for the profitability of our services and increasing our customers cloud commitment through portfolio management, all in a manner consistent with Microsoft’s legal, fiscal and personnel policies. DELIVERY - The TAM must be aware and proficient in understanding the Services portfolio, and the entitlements and benefits available to the customer to be able to articulate the value of these services to support customer success. The TAM is responsible for understanding the customer’s priorities and constructing a strategic plan that defines the Support team’s approach to bring value to the customer. The TAM pursues, orchestrates, and facilitates programs of work to deliver outcomes that bring value to the customer. The TAM is the owner of the overall support experience across the entire lifecycle that includes planning, consumption, and delivery governance. LEADERSHIP - This role requires strong communication skills and imaginative, bold thinking in all situations, as well as displaying executive presence and confidence. The TAM must be able to show leadership in supporting teams comprised of Microsoft, Partner and customer resources who may be engaged in the delivery of complex solutions. QualificationsExperiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge: Proven experience in an Enterprise environment with a strong understanding of corporate and public sector customer support needs. 5 years in Service organisation Coaching & mentorship skills Ability to manage large portfolio's or accounts. Strong communication skills across IT and business leadership Consistently demonstrates strong organizational, project/program management, change management, and problem-solving skills. Be a confident leader, able to orchestrate across multiple groups to ensure customers outcomes are met. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. ITIL Foundation Certificate preferred. A character that exemplifies Microsoft values including integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, and mutual respect.

  • Specialist – Education (Azure -Infrastructure)

    Specialist – Education (Azure -Infrastructure)

    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. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. Nowhere is this mission more alive, and our opportunity so great, than in the education industry.The objective of the Specialist – Education is to expand strategic education customer relationships to drive larger impact and targeted business growth and drive the jointly agreed customer multi-year Digital Transformation business strategy through articulating Microsoft’s Azure Infrastructure offerings, delivering agreed outcomes while leading a virtual internal and external team with the customer and partners.

    Selling education services and solutions that:

    Drive Azure as the cloud for education, especially in academic research by establishing strategic design wins across top research institutions
    Grow awareness/usage of the Microsoft Cloud to close talent gap of students, researchers and faculty/instructors on Azure/Cloud

    ResponsibilitiesKey Outcomes / Measures of Success

    100% of opportunity pipeline tracked in MSX for Microsoft Modern Classroom solutions within key accounts.
    Drive replicable success by having 100% of Enterprise/E200 accounts with at least one Education Industry solution opportunity closed
    Grow MAD across E200 and managed accounts
    Increase O365 MAU with students and educators in E200 and managed accounts
    Increase usage of Teams in E200 and managed accounts
    Grow and protect Windows 10 device share with #% growth in New Education Windows Devices
    Deliver M365 business value pitch and demo to BDM, ITDM or industry account contact in 100% of M365 opportunities
    Drive upsell motion at 100% of renewals by leading with security, compliance and teamwork premium workloads
    Owning opportunities, from qualification to closure
    Orchestrating MW Technical specialists to drive advanced workloads supporting M365 E5
    Winning new customers by positioning the value of Modern Workplace to non-cloud accounts
    Growing the Surface footprint by positioning the M365 and Surface better together story
    Engaging and coordinating with Partners, Microsoft Services

    QualificationsExperiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

    Strong solution sales background, with 5-8 years of technology-related experience, with experience in immersive and inclusive learning experiences, Online Productivity tools, Windows, mobility and devices
    The expertise and ability to explain key end-user solutions and technical architectures aligned to a customer maturity framework/path in Windows 10 Pro and Education, Office 365 clients and Modern Classroom deployment tools such as Identity with Azure Active Directory Premium (AAD P1), Intune (MDM and MAM) and Teams with School Data Sync (SDS) set-up. And looking holistically end to end to the resources ready for deployment & adoption (usage) assistance for smooth customer experience.
    Ability to learn quickly, adapt and master new concepts and technologies to be able to impact their adoption and usage
    Possess executive maturity, presence and experience in building trust with education business decision makers articulating and demonstrating Microsoft and partner solution value propositions, with specific emphasis on solutions related to immersive and inclusive learning experiences.
    Ability to drive digital transformation in a highly competitive environment with proven ability to successfully anticipate market changes to drive industry-relevant solutions, with an understanding of competitive technologies to address competitive threats and navigate complex customer environments
    Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs
    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

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

  • Partner Technical Architect

    Partner Technical Architect

    Joining the MEA One Commercial Partner team (OCP) as a MEA Partner Technical Architect (PTA) means you will be playing a critical role helping Microsoft Partners to capitalize Digital Transformation market opportunity. Working in OCP means you are shaping the world’s largest eco-system of technology companies.Microsoft’s Mission: Through our partners Microsoft brings digital ambitions to life by helping companies empower their employees, engage their customers, optimize their operations, and transform their products.The Regional Partner Technical Architect (PTA) The PTA plays a critical role in working with partners to provide deep Modern Desktop & Unified Endpoint Management technical support through solution build and first mile customer engagements including Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions (ADS), Hackathons

    Responsibilities
    The Partner Technical Architect (PTA) will drive practice-based partner technical capabilities in collaboration with the PTS. This is a partner facing role that is accountable for developing and support practices in both existing and newly recruited partners.
    Key responsibilities include:

    Technical Enablement: Jointly develop technical enablement plan for partners
    Enablement Execution: Lead and or contribute to the delivery of workshops, Bootcamps, trainings necessary to build the technical skills and expertise of partners
    Technical Engagement: Lead deep technical engagements leveraging the Services Framework, including; Technical Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, Hackathons to define, bring new solutions to market and support the partners development teams
    Partner Skilling and Sharing Best Practices: Network and collaborate with Microsoft’s Engineering and Global Black Belt teams on specific skill requirements for partners and the sharing of best practices
    Technical Acumen: Understands technology trends and opportunities, compliance/risk issues by reading, attending webinars, conferences delivered by Industry thought leaders such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG/Saugatuck
    The Participation Economy: Joins the Participation economy attending Digital Transformation/Technology conferences like Build. Participates on technical panels and user groups and contributes with insights and work that is shared in communities such as MSDN and Channel9
    Technical Network: Invests in own LinkedIn Profile to promote value, experiences and expertise. Responsible for building an expansive Network of partner technical contacts and internal contacts including Engineering, Global Black belts, M&O and peer Architects
    Evangelist: Evangelizes the partners practice and solutions in customer’s implementations via Technical briefings, Architecture Review Sessions
    Implementation Success: Improves partner’s implementation success by increasing the number of FastTrack endorsed architects in the partner’s organization.
    Pre-Sales: Enable the partner on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partner’s wins.
    The PTA is a Technical Architect building relationship with partner technical and development resources designing and architecting new solutions on the Microsoft Modern Desktop platform and Unified Endpoint Management. PTAs deliver value via a portfolio of service delivery engagements optimized to accelerate partner solution builds and first mile customer wins.
    The PTA should possess deep solution and technical expertise to be able to lead technical activities and drive high priority initiatives aligned to the Microsoft Partner Journey Maps in collaboration with Microsoft teams and the partner. The role will need to develop required solutions and build partner technical capacity by working with the managed partner portfolio through the Build-With lifecycle, from recruit to grow, aligned to partner segment.
    The PTA will own the technical engagement including envisioning briefings, technical briefings, business architecture, solution architecture, architectural design reviews, proof of concept, and manage specific implementation programs with corresponding Proofs of Concept plans.

    Qualifications

     Deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, emerging computing trends and their impact on partner practice building opportunities.
    5+ years of related experience in technology solutions/practice development, Cloud / Infrastructure technologies. Knowledge of MS platform especially Microsoft 365, Office 365, project management, technical Sales and technical account management is expected. Experience in end-user solutions and technical architectures in Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise, Office 365 clients and Modern Desktop technology components like SCCM, Intune, AD, BitLocker, Virtualization, RMS, Windows 10, Office 365 “as a service” is preferred.
     Proven track record of building deep sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in ISV and Services (MSP, CD, SIs)
     Able to work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales, services, and marketing organizations and Microsoft partners
     Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills
     Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment
     Strong partner relationship management skills
     Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small technical audiences.
     Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
     Technical BS degree, Computer Science or Math background required. MS in related fields desirable.
    Additionally, the following skills are preferred:
    Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management, Demonstrated knowledge of identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance, and how they factor into cloud and hybrid solution, Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology, assessment and workshop delivery, ability to influence others, experience working in teams and cross teams, executive presence, consultative and technical selling, challenger mindset, product demo skills
    Additionally, the following certifications are preferred:
    Certification in Windows and Office 365 client technologies (MCSA or MCSE) preferred.
    Certification in information security (CompTIA, CEH, CISSP, CISAM) desired
    Certification in IT Infrastructure Architecture (CITA, MCA, MCSE) desired
    Certification in Virtualization solutions (MCITP, MCSE) desired

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

  • Program Manager – Africa Development Centre

    Program Manager – Africa Development Centre

    ResponsibilitiesOur team is looking for a Program Manager (PM) to help us realize this vision. You will work directly on building the core infrastructure that powers Microsoft Graph. Your role focuses on the all-important libraries that form the foundation of Microsoft Graph. You’ll work with partners across the company to ensure they have everything necessary to rapidly and safely build massive-scale APIs into Microsoft Graph.You will have a unique opportunity to demonstrate both empathy and technical prowess to succeed. In this role, you’ll be working with leaders and developers in many orgs who have their own timelines and agendas. Success means understanding the API developer’s needs from start-to-finish and crafting the libraries that create the beautiful and scalable APIs we seek in Microsoft Graph.Because This Role Is Cross-organizational

    You should be a phenomenal listener, seeking actively to understand the needs of your partners here and across the company.
    You should be able to synthesize and prioritize conflicting needs from a variety of partners.
    You should be intent on creating and maintaining warm and productive working relationships across disciplines and the company.

    Because This Role Is Highly Technical

    You should understand the developer mindset.
    You should have a basic understanding of API design principles.
    You should have a passion for technology and constant learning.

    We are a tight-knit community of engineers who are committed to:

    Respecting privacy and security.
    Understanding our customers, both internal and external.
    Diversity and inclusion.

    Our aim is to be the best and most successful API in the world while enabling all Microsoft products to benefit from our investments.If this sounds like the right environment for you, please join us!QualificationsBasic Qualifications:

    Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science, or related industry experience
    2+ years’ experience in program management or related business experience defining and creating software features

    Helpful Skills

    Motivated by business outcomes and data-driven decision-making
    Excellent PM fundamentals: feature design, customer empathy, passion for learning, can-do creativity, concise communications and ability to influence
    Proven understanding of API design and developer mindset
    Consistent track record of collaborating with PMs and engineers across orgs
    Creativity and optimism grounded in practical engineering and business strategy

    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.

  • Customer Success Manager – Modern Workplace

    Customer Success Manager – Modern Workplace

    We are looking for a Customer Success Manager to drive successful adoption and expansion of Modern Workplace workloads within her/his assigned accounts. The CSM role will collaboratively drive change management and adoption activities with key Business Decision Makers, help reduce competitive risk, drive usage of existing workloads, and identify opportunities in her/his accounts. This role will create customer value through usage, and create the conditions for optimal renewal and upsell growth.ResponsibilitiesCustomer Success Manager Modern Workplace role will cover assigned customers in their territory. This is an exciting role that will help create bonds with our Modern Workplace customers and will fuel customer success, retention, growth, renewal and advocacy. We strive for our customers to realize success, transforming their business, through the adoption of our modern workplace solutions. Key responsibilities include:

    Drive usage growth of “Modern Workplace” workloads (Office 365 Modern communications apps (Yammer/Teams/Outlook Mobile/Kaizala), Modern Core (EXO, SPO), Windows 10 and Security)
    Be the single point of accountability for Modern Workpalce workload consumption within the customer
    Engage workload experts (e.g., TSP, ATS, FastTrack/ENG, partners, etc.) to drive usage and help accelerate customer value for each workload
    Build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with Business Decision Makers (BDMs) and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) within each customer to influence adoption
    Secure BDM/ITDM intent to use of workloads
    Clearly define BDM/ITDM business outcomes and build a high quality “success plan” inclusive of customer objectives, stakeholders, milestones, risks and metrics needed to achieve them
    Establish and run deployment and usage governance processes to increase deployment and usage velocity. The governance shall coordinate activities across customers, partners, engineering, services and field roles needed to achieve healthy SPE consumption
    Represent the “Voice of the Customer” within Microsoft, and document business-value driven customer success stories and best practices
    Activate Microsoft sellers (AE, SSP) when new sales opportunities (Upsell or Cross-Sell) are generated through consumption engagements with BDM/ITDM

    QualificationsExperiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

    7+ years of experience in consultative selling. Experience in consulting or pre-sales, experience in both is ideal.
    Ability to map the customer’s business process to product capability.
    Experience in running governance of complex deployment and usage projects within large organizations.
    Strong technical understanding of M365 workloads.
    Top-notch executive engagement skills with an ability to establish trusted advisor relationships with business decision makers.
    Deep passion for making others successful.
    Passion for Work Style Innovation
    Technical Solution Selling Experience preferred
    Lead & Engage Stakeholders

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

  • Full-time Opportunity for Students and Recent Graduates – Kenya

    Full-time Opportunity for Students and Recent Graduates – Kenya

    Job descriptionResponsibilitiesWe are looking for candidates that have the following qualities:

    Team Player: driving digital transformation with our customers is a team sport. We need teammates who can stay maniacally focused on our customers’ satisfaction while operating in a highly-collaborative, matrixed global organization.
    Growth Mindset: your life is truly about learning-it-all. You approach every new piece of information, knowledge, and competency with insatiable curiosity. Ultimately, you’re open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish your own.
    Resourceful: you have the drive to overcome any obstacle in your work.
    Customer Focused: you learn about your customers and their businesses with a beginner’s mind and then bring solutions that meet their needs.
    Pure Challenge: demonstrated desire and ability to readily take on complex challenges and work towards solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems.
    Passion for Technology: you’re deeply motivated by the incredible opportunity of how technology can inspire and ignite change and renewal.

    QualificationsApplications to this opportunity are considered depending on education level and/or location. To be considered as student / recent graduate, you should be:

    Within 12 months of graduation or graduated within the last 12 months.
    Up to 2 years of accumulated full-time professional experience.
    Passion for the technology and innovation.
    Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
    English language fluency.

    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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

  • Software Engineer – Africa Development Center Software Engineering Lead – Africa Development Center

    Software Engineer – Africa Development Center Software Engineering Lead – Africa Development Center

    Are you passionate about building cutting edge web application? We are building a web based UX for Remote Administration. This will run from inbox, on Microsoft Azure, and on Amazon Web Service. As a candidate for this role, you must be passionate about UX design and development. You must be experienced in delivering large scale web based UI solutions.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities

    Collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers
    Learn and share ideas continuously
    Drive for quality in everything you do
    Collaborate across team boundaries to define and drive team charter and vision.
    Provide technical input across Azure team.

    QualificationsRequired Qualifications

    3+ years of experience in software development
    3 years of object oriented programming using C++, C# or Java
    2 years of desktop and web application development

    Preferred Qualifications

    Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
    Web based UI development, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions and standards
    HTML and JavaScript development
    Design and development of RESTful web service
    Building web based UI controls
    Strong software design and development skills
    Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
    Ability to drive technical investigations and prototyping in a fast-paced environment
    Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

    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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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  • Graduates Trainee Recruitment

    Graduates Trainee Recruitment

    Responsibilities

    We are looking for candidates that have the following qualities:

    Team Player: driving digital transformation with our customers is a team sport. We need teammates who can stay maniacally focused on our customers’ satisfaction while operating in a highly-collaborative, matrixed global organization.
    Growth Mindset: your life is truly about learning-it-all. You approach every new piece of information, knowledge, and competency with insatiable curiosity. Ultimately, you’re open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish your own.
    Resourceful: you have the drive to overcome any obstacle in your work.
    Customer Focused: you learn about your customers and their businesses with a beginner’s mind and then bring solutions that meet their needs.
    Pure Challenge: demonstrated desire and ability to readily take on complex challenges and work towards solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems.
    Passion for Technology: you’re deeply motivated by the incredible opportunity of how technology can inspire and ignite change and renewal.

    Qualifications
    Applications to this opportunity are considered depending on education level and/or location. To be considered as student / recent graduate, you should be:

    Within 12 months of graduation or graduated within the last 12 months.
    Up to 2 years of accumulated full-time professional experience.
    Passion for the technology and innovation.
    Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
    English language fluency.

  • Africa Development Centre Site Leader

    Africa Development Centre Site Leader

    We are looking for an inspired, collaborative engineering site leader for new engineering investments in Kenya and Nigeria.  Over the years, we’ve witnessed exciting changes to the technological landscape on the Continent and our next endeavor is to launch Microsoft engineering sites in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria.
    The vision for these Development Centers is to establish a premier center of Engineering for Microsoft, leveraging the diversity of the landscape to build world class talent who can create innovative solutions for global impact. The African Development Centers will contribute to Microsoft’s interests across global businesses such as Office, Azure, Windows, and Xbox.

    Responsibilities
    Engineering Leadership and Strategy

    Act as corporate engineering leader in the region and be the voice of the region to the engineering leaders in Redmond/HQ.
    This role contributes to the execution of the vision and strategy for Microsoft in the region (in partnership with Global Sales Management Office) by identifying and bringing strategic engineering charters to the sites.
    Monitor and support overall engineering health of sites
    Champion One Engineering in the regionDrive an innovation culture in Africa, and lead/sponsor incubation efforts

     Ecosystem 

    Engage the ecosystem to advance Microsoft’s interest in the region
    Partner with field team on business opportunities for Microsoft within the ecosystem (e.g. M&A, investment, partnership, collaboration)
    Establish relationships with universities, start-ups, civic centers, governments, think tanks, etc. to attract technical talent, further the Microsoft brand and create relationships within the local community

     Talent 

    Build a diverse & Inclusive team and culture for the sites
    Act as a talent magnet in the local ecosystem: creates, fosters, and markets a compelling value proposition to work at Microsoft in the local region
    Responsible for site staffing plans and actively attracting, retaining, and fostering the careers of top engineer

     Operations 

    Work with Real Estate & Facilities, HR, Recruiting, Finance, and other groups to oversee site operations and ensure engineering teams are aligned on strategy and executing across common goals
    Partner with Legal to ensure the site is in-compliance with local laws