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  • Posted: Nov 8, 2021
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    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser.
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    Global Expansion Incubator Manager, Africa

    The Role 

    Xbox is seeking an experienced individual to join the newly established Global Expansion Incubator team to grow our content acquisition pipeline and strategic partnerships in the regional markets. This manager will lead efforts in engaging with local gaming content creators and closely partner with internal stakeholders to achieve globalization of Xbox. 

    This role requires exceptional collaboration skills where influence, rather than direct authority, is critical to executing and maintaining alignment of complex/cross-organizational initiatives to accelerate our content globalization. This person will be a self-starter, knowing how to work with ambiguity and unknown challenges to build our global muscles in prioritized markets. As a GXI Manager, you will base your decisions and prioritization on data and analytics to align to our partners’ needs and internal strategy.  You will need a high tolerance for and even appreciation and enjoyment of ambiguity and change; you will need to demonstrate problem-solving, leadership and decisiveness with limited oversight; and you will need to effectively navigate across a wide range of levels, roles, and personality types with ease.   

    This role is a do-it-all function, balancing multiple projects at once, and being able to seamlessly switch context to solve new challenges. 

    Responsibilities

    Strategy 

    • Develop an understanding of local customers, competitors, content, partners, business models, and gaming industry trends while producing quantitative and qualitative analyses. 
    • Provide guidance to internal stakeholders to inform decision-making in Gaming expansion plans. 
    • Use existing knowledge base to drive prioritization, planning and new opportunities. 
    • Develop an understanding of Xbox’s and content creators’ strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities. 

    Program Management 

    • Drive to see new and existing initiatives through from start to finish in a complex, matrixed environment.  
    • Be a proven problem solver and innovator to work through blockers & challenges to see projects and programs through. 
    • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously. 
    • Strong communicator with demonstrated success in clearly and persuasively communicating complex or sensitive business issues to senior management and external content creators. 
    • Support business operations including managing contracts, tracking new business initiatives, and presenting Microsoft’s gaming vision. 

    Partnership Management 

    • Proactively engage and develop relationship with external gaming partners (i.e. gaming associations, governmental organizations, content creators etc.) while evangelizing Xbox Gaming Ecosystem. 
    • Explore creative ways to collaborate with external gaming partners by understanding shared strategic goals and opportunities.  
    • Identify, present, and acquire gaming contents from existing and new partners to support Microsoft platforms and subscription services. 
    • Be the connector between Microsoft gaming and content creators representing Xbox to be the GLOBAL gaming platform of choice. 

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications: 

    • At least 5 years of relevant business experience in one or more of the following: business development, strategic partnerships, strategy & operations, global projects, project management and/or program management. 
    • Fluent in English (written and verbal communications) 
    • Comfortable with public speaking and engagement  
    • Strong awareness of local culture and business etiquette  
    • Comfortable with traveling domestically and internationally up to 50%  

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience in Gaming Industry 
    • Existing network within the gaming developer and publisher community 

    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.

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    Software Engineer II – Power Platform & Dynamics 365 Insights and Analytics

    Business Applications is one of the four key growth areas for Microsoft and our cloud business over the coming years. As a foundational pillar of the company, our group is building the next generation of business applications and platforms that will help businesses large and small succeed in achieving their digital transformation process. The products we are responsible for, include Dynamics 365, Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow), Mixed Reality for business and other SaaS applications and workloads.  

    We are seeking a dynamic individual contributor for our Engineering function as part of our Insights and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for building Citizen developer Apps using PowerApps, Power Automate and Dataverse. 

    Our team owns multiple internal products for reporting and LOB applications.  We support senior leadership, product development, finance, sales & marketing with analysis, insights & reporting.

    Responsibilities

    • Develop apps based on PowerApps, Power Automate, Dataverse and SQL
    • Build aggregates and data pipelines required for reporting, insights production, ML models and ad hoc analysis

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications:    

    • 3 years of experience as software engineer.   
    • 1 year of experience in PowerApps, Power Automate or similar low code\no code technology.

    Preferred qualifications   

    • Passion for data and the desire to learn & adopt new technologies & analysis methodologies.
    • A willingness to learn, share, & improve.   
    • Great written & verbal communication skills   
    • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity & working independently
    • Any experience in Azure Devops and PowerBI would be a plus.   
    • Any experience in big data technologies like Cosmos, Hadoop, Azure data lake etc.   

    Any Understanding of telemetry and data analytics technologies like: SQL, Cosmos, Kusto, Azure ML, R, Python, Spark, Hadoop.

    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.

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    Data Engineer II – Power Platform & Dynamics 365 Insights and Analytics

    Business Applications is one of the four key growth areas for Microsoft and our cloud business over the coming years. As a foundational pillar of the company, our group is building the next generation of business applications and platforms that will help businesses large and small succeed in achieving their digital transformation process. The products we are responsible for, include Dynamics 365, Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow), Mixed Reality for business and other SaaS applications and workloads.  

    We are seeking a dynamic individual contributor for our Engineering function as part of our Insights and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for building state-of-the-art data pipelines to drive business success as well as productize ML models to help drive usage growth of our products. 

    Our team owns multiple and diverse services like Net Promoter Score and Recommendation pipelines for multiple Microsoft marketplaces.  We also support senior leadership, product development, finance, sales & marketing with analysis, insights & reporting. We use data science to drive usage & revenue growth through machine learning models for personalized recommendations, marketing automation & lead scoring.   

    Responsibilities

    • Build aggregates and ETL data pipelines required for reporting, insights production, ML models performance and evaluation and ad hoc analysis. 
    • Work with data scientist to come up with new actionable insights that improve the customer’s experience. 

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications:    

    • 3 years of experience as software\data engineer. 
    • 1 year of relevant work experience in Big Data Engineering and/or ML Engineering
    • Technical aptitude and hands-on experience with data analysis or ETL processing

     Preferred qualifications   

    • 1 year of big data experience like Cosmos, Hadoop, Azure data lake etc.   
    • Solid understanding of telemetry and data analytics technologies like: SQL, Cosmos, Kusto, Azure ML, R, Python, Spark, Hadoop.
    • Any experience in Azure DevOps, PowerApps, Power Automate and PowerBI would be a plus. 
    • Passion for data and the desire to learn & adopt new technologies & analysis methodologies.   
    • Enjoy discovering & solving problems.  
    • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity & working independently.  
    • A willingness to learn, share, & improve.  
    • Great written & verbal communication skills  

    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.

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    Principal Engineering Manager

    Are you looking for an opportunity to leverage your diverse expertise to unlock the value of data, transform business processes, create new experiences, and infuse the business with look-forward prescriptive and inquisitive insights? Would you like to bring your passion for evolving and refining our data platform solution by infusing core Data Stewart functions? Do you enjoy building and developing high performing teams? If so, we have an opportunity for you.

    Business Application is one of the four key growth areas for Microsoft and our Cloud Business over the coming years. As a foundational pillar of the company, our group is building the next generation of business applications and platforms that will help businesses large and small succeed in achieving their digital transformation agenda. The products we are responsible for include Dynamics 365, Azure Data and Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Power Automate).

    We are looking for a seasoned Software engineering manager who can champion BI engineering, Data quality and insights of ever-growing pool of information generated and resourced from various repositories across organizations. The ideal candidate will drive the vision and strategy for our Business Intelligence & Analytics service.

    Responsibilities

    • Rapidly build and grow a talented team of Data engineers, Data scientists and Program managers
    • Deliver Big Data, ML solutions while showing strong technical background and solid foundation in software engineering principles and architecture design
    • Inform business strategy through deep insights, cross team collaboration.
    • Provide thought leadership on Data Management activities like, Data Catalog, Data Definition, Data Retention and Standard Representation.

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications 

    • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, ML or equivalent industry experience. 
    • 3+ years’ experience as a people manager.
    • 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining Big Data, Analytics and ML systems

     Preferred qualifications   

    • Experience in designing Big Data platforms, telemetry and ML ops systems
    • Experience in ML Engineering and experimentation Software lifecycle
    • Track record of mentoring and managing individuals
    • Superior interpersonal, verbal and written communication and presentation skills
    • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity & working independently.   

    A willingness to learn, share, & improve.   

    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.

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    Business Analytics Specialist II - Digital Transformation Platform

    Are you looking for an opportunity to leverage your diverse expertise to unlock the value of data, transform business processes, create new experiences, and infuse the business with look-forward prescriptive and inquisitive insights? Come join us!

    Business Applications is one of the four key growth areas for Microsoft and our cloud business over the coming years. As a foundational pillar of the company, our group is building the next generation of business applications and platforms that will help businesses large and small succeed in achieving their digital transformation agenda. The products we are responsible for include Dynamics 365, Azure Data, and Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate), Mixed Reality for business and other SaaS applications and workloads.

    We are seeking a dynamic individual contributor for our Reporting and Analytics function as part of our Insights and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing tabular models, reports, dashboards, and analytical insights to drive business success. You will work cross-functionally with product and engineering, enabling them with data and narratives about the customer journey

    Responsibilities

    • Design, build and deploy large scale end to end BI solutions, including tabular models using Analysis Server/XMLA endpoint
    • Create reports and dashboards from various sources.
    • Analyze data using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques.
    • Create and integrate Power Apps and Power Automate flows with Power BI reports.
    • Present findings and recommendations to key decision makers at various management levels
    • Build strong partnerships with stakeholders and manage BI and reporting projects.
    • Articulate project goals and scope, translate business needs into technical terms, set milestones and prepare detailed work breakdown structures.
    • Enhance, evangelize, test and implement BI processes and tools.
    • Help improve Microsoft products through feedback and use of internal BI technologies.
    • Maintain and enhance Share Point hub with embedded reports.

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications:

    • At least 3 years of industry experience
    • 1+ years of experience with Power BI, knowledge of advanced DAX functions and developing large scale Tabular Models
    • 3+ years of experience writing SQL queries.
    • Strong understanding of database management principles and relationship modeling

    Preferred qualifications

    • Masters, PHD or MBA Degree in Engineering, Analytics, Information Technology, Management Science, Data Science or related field
    • Experience with big data telemetry systems
    • Knowledge in applied statistics and mathematics
    • Experience with programming languages such as R and Python
    • Experience creating Power Apps and Power Automate workflows.
    • Enjoy discovering and solving problems; proactively seeking clarification of requirements and direction; being a self-starter who takes responsibility when required.
    • Strong interpersonal, verbal, visual and presentation skills, ability to communicate complex findings in a simple manner to executives.
    • Ability to work collaboratively across multiple business and engineering teams
    • A willingness to learn, share, and improve.

    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.

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