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As a Compliance Technical Specialist (TS), you will work with a team of sales, technical , partner and consulting resources to educate and demonstrate the value of our data security solutions to our customers, empowering them to protect, govern, and safeguard their sensitive data while also managing regulatory compliance requirements and maintaining customer & employee privacy. Your main goal will be to win the technical decision of customers to purchase Microsoft data security solutions. Being part of this team will allow you to strengthen both your deep technical expertise as well as your consultative selling skills across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud native data security solutions, architectures, programs, and technologies. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Responsibilities

• You will be the primary technical point of contact for potential customers during the sales process, owing and driving technical win for security opportunities and engage with other teams within and outside the organization throughout the sales cycle and engage partners in sell-with scenarios and supporting their technical capabilities is key to scaling solution delivery
• You will leverage your deep technical understanding of Data Security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Defender for Cloud Apps (CASB).
• You will coordinate weekly with sellers and manager to understand opportunities, compete scenarios and engagements to focus on, engaging and driving to own and win the technical decisions
• You will remediate blockers, lead and ensure technical wins for Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies. Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently and build credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security and searches for and uses Microsoft Security customer references as well as drive customer intent to consume and drives handoff to customer success for post sales deployment.
• You will develop strategies and recommendations to improve the client's data security posture, shape technical win plan and tailor Microsoft messaging to audience for security opportunities and enhance team capabilities for cloud native data security patterns and architectures and develops differentiated compete strategies for assigned customers.
• You will lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, explain, demonstrate and architect the solution to help solve customer security challenges and priorities
• You will demonstrate and oversee proof of concepts, presents and applies architecture patterns, proves capabilities and integration into customer environment, and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for data security and leverage insights and coach teams to align to new or changing technology to meet customer needs.

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  • or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  • or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience

Preffered Qualifications

• 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
  • o OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
  • Cloud Computing: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Services (PaaS), and Software as a service and understanding of one or more cloud security standards and frameworks such as CIS, NIST, CSA, etc.,
  • Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from both successes and failures; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit
• Certification in Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security
• One or more of Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, IAAP, etc. Is preferred
• Extensive exposure to:
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems;
  • Next Gen Web Application Firewalls and Secure Web Gateways;
  • Threat detection technologies;
  • Log analysis and Incident Response;
  • Cloud security technologies, architectures and concepts such as Zero Trust, cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, Cloud code security and Cloud infrastructure entitlement management

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• This involves solving deep technical and socio-technical challenges including NLP for African and under-resourced languages and the production of culturally, linguistically and contextually appropriate output. Microsoft Research Africa is a relatively young research lab, and we are looking for team members committed to growing our research agenda and creating impact.
• The ideal candidate will be excited to work in a multidisciplinary team, consisting of ethnographers, computer scientists, human-computer interaction researchers, designers and engineers. They must have an appreciation for the value of working with deep qualitative research and delight in pushing the boundaries of their academic disciplines through cross-disciplinary partnerships.
• If you are a researcher who is passionate about designing Globally Equitable Generative AI and understands the importance of multidisciplinary research, this might be the opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to cutting edge research on Generative AI for the African context
• Collaborate with researchers across Microsoft on existing projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ground research in actual needs and support the implementation of AI solutions that are equitable and beneficial for all
• Mentor and support junior researchers
• Communicate research findings through publications, presentations, and engaging with the academic and research communities. Organize and lead workshops or seminars to disseminate research progress and findings, and to foster knowledge exchange among the research community
• Contribute to the strategic planning of research initiatives that align with the vision of creating Globally Equitable Generative AI, ensuring the research direction is impactful and sustainable.
• Work with both academic communities and product teams
• Be committed to creating impact with and for Microsoft research Africa

Qualifications
Required qualifications:

• Has completed a PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or other related domain
• Has a minimum of 4 years work experience post PhD
• Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of machine learning algorithms, and the methods that underpin modern language and vision processing
• Strong practical knowledge in working with current deep-learning toolkits, particularly in language and/or vision, and in critically evaluating models.
• Proven research record including publications in top computer science and ML venues, such as including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCR, ECCV, EMNLP
• Passion for staying up to date with the latest advancements in AI & ML
• Ability to shape and lead research agendas
• Ability to communicate their findings to academia and business audiences

Preferred qualifications include demonstrated research experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Deep learning /Generative AI – either image, language, audio or multimodal models
• Deep learning /Generative AI for African languages or in data constrained tasks
• Data generation and augmentation for building and evaluating models
• A demonstrated research interest in Africa
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Effective communication and collaboration skills within a multidisciplinary team