Job Vacancies at Microsoft Nigeria

Job number 924051
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor

Job Descriptions

• 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. The world's first untethered, head-mounted holographic computer, the HoloLens was an example of this.
• The Mixed Reality engineering team in Lagos builds Mixed Reality Cloud Services that bring those technologies to a wider range of devices and brings people and things together across virtual and physical spaces We have an opportunity for a passionate and multi-talented Software Engineer to find their next technical and career growth challenge on our team.

#MixedReality

Responsibilities

• We are developing many new cloud services that leverage AI and machine perception to enable rich, cross-platform Mixed Reality experiences. We’re a growing team of talented engineers putting technology on a human path across all devices. As a member of our team:
• You will work on the delivery of high-quality code components that will power the services, servers, distributed systems, networking and backend architecture for our products.
• You will play multiple, often divergent roles to ensure the success of our newly created engineering team.
• You will work with industry-leading scientists and engineers to bring the latest AI, Machine Learning and Computer vision capabilities to the cloud.

Qualifications

• Experience writing applications or services in a modern programming language using a common application or services stack.
• Passion, interest and optionally experienced in distributed systems and consistency challenges.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

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

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Job number: 970099
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Job Description

• 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 scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we’re incorporating groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more.  
• We’re a growing team of talented engineers, program managers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, and Xbox. Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, previous work histories, life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our varied backgrounds and unique experiences enable us to be better at building the best solutions for our customers and make for dynamic and joyful collaborations with colleagues!  
• If you are passionate about groundbreaking Mixed Reality technology and want to work on a team dedicated to a culture of inclusion, growth mindset and collaboration, we need you!
• In the Mixed Reality Services team, we bring those technologies to a wider range of devices and brings people and things together across virtual and physical spaces We have an opportunity for a passionate and multi-talented Software Engineer to find their next technical and career growth challenge on our team.

Responsibilities

• We are developing many new cloud services that leverage AI and machine perception to enable rich, cross-platform Mixed Reality experiences. We’re a growing team of talented engineers putting technology on a human path across all devices. As a member of our team:
• You will work on the delivery of high-quality code components that will power the services, servers, distributed systems and science runtimes on our product.  
• You will play multiple, often divergent roles to ensure the success of our newly created engineering team.  
• You will work with industry-leading scientists and engineers to bring the latest AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision capabilities to the cloud.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering.
• Experience building, releasing, and supporting applications or services in a modern programming language using a common application or services stack.
• Proven track record working with Concurrent Programming concepts like asynchronous operations, distributed consensus and parallelism.
• Experience shipping cloud services, networked applications or distributed systems.
• Proven track record of multidisciplinary capabilities.
• Strong Collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience on Computer Vision field or Computer Graphics field preferred but not required.

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

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Job number 966855
Location: Nigeria
Travel 0-25 %
Profession: Business Programs & Operations
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Job Description

• Microsoft’s Field Engagement & Delivery team within the Core Services Engineering organization is a highly motivated, globally dispersed team focused on helping Microsoft’s end users, including services, sales, marketing, commerce, customer support, finance, and HR professionals achieve their full potential. We enable rich and pervasive internal user experiences that result in connecting the company, delighting Microsoft employees, and inspiring the industry.
• Within Field Engagement & Delivery, Business Program Managers are responsible for enabling user experiences through our change management expertise and knowledge of various processes, line-of-business applications, and reports used daily across Microsoft subsidiaries. Our PROSCI based skills and business acumen enable quick and effective increases in user satisfaction and consistent adoption of technology and process changes as well as faster return on investment for our Corporate stakeholders. We have strengths in business analysis to assess current processes vs. future state, identify and prioritize gaps together with users and Headquarter peer teams, drive awareness and desire across the user communities for the pending changes, and land the changes through effective communication and training strategies. We are locally based with our user communities and as a result we are able to respond to local needs and partner with Headquarter teams to understand and prioritize requirements while managing user expectations.
• This Business Program Manager role will be vital to support Microsoft’s employees in Middle-East and Africa subsidiaries and countries.
• Specifically, the role will partner with the Middle-East and Africa local business teams and Global Headquarter peer engineering and business capability teams to enable an optimal field user experience with internal line-of-business Sales Business Intelligence tools, reporting, and related workflows.
• The team member will build depth understanding of both global and local usage scenarios and build relationships with key stakeholders in the local business including but not limited to business operations teams, sales managers and leaders, and sellers in order to be able to create and drive effective change management plans and address ongoing opportunities to improve adoption.
• The ideal candidate has a passion for building and maintaining relationships, business analysis skills to validate and prioritize solution requirements, leverage others and partner closely with regional and global peers, and the creativity and passion to localize readiness and deployment activities in a way that motivates users to adopt changes and provide feedback for future improvements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Corporate business and engineering peer groups as well as local stakeholders to drive change management of engineering led and process led line-of-business application, process, and reporting changes to the user community.
• Follow ADKAR methodology while delivering on change management activities to assess current vs. future state capabilities, assess and prioritize user needs, and drive landing and adoption activities inclusive of UAT, communications, training, and post implementation follow ups with users.
• Be the local single point of contact for a given set of business and engineering capabilities, initially focused on Sales Business Intelligence solutions, on behalf of various engineering teams, peer Field Engagement & Delivery teams, and Corporate business teams.
• Identify ongoing opportunities to address opportunities for improvement re: line-of-business application and reporting usage and satisfaction together with managing the feedback pipeline with the local business and into Corporate business and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum BS / BA degree in Information Systems, related field OR equivalent business experience.
• 5+ years of solution, project, process, and/or change management with proven track record of successful delivery in support of sales functions and marketing as well as finance field communities.
• Previous experience with any of the following: Sales, Marketing, Inside Sales, Licensing, Finance, Incentive Compensation Processes, Models and Systems desired
• Strong Change Management Experience
• Have the ability to support work across multiple time zones.
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in the IT or software industry or in business / IT consulting services.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven self-starter with a track record of successful entrepreneurial / individual contributor.
• Ability to influence and communicate at senior levels.
• Strong cross-group collaboration skills.
• Strong acumen in service delivery structures, approaches, and processes.
• Business process design methodology and implementation.
• Willingness to travel at least once a quarter.

#CSEO#EUSEJOBS

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