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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Software Engineer
Job number: 924051
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time
Job Summary
- 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.
- We are launching a Cognition Africa engineering team to build Mixed Reality Cloud Services that bring those technologies to a wider range of devices. We have an opportunity for a passionate and multitalented Software Engineer looking for their next technical and career growth challenge to help us build the suite of cloud services that bring people and things together in across virtual and physical spaces.
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
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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.
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Job Title: Site Acquisition Director
Job Number: 913528
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 25-50 %
Profession: Business Programs & Operations
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Description
- Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s cloud services and our team is focused on delivering high quality infrastructure to support cloud operations. As Microsoft’s Cloud business continues to mature, our infrastructure expansion accelerates, and datacenters are central to this growth.
- To support this, the acquisition and development of our owned, designed and constructed Data Center facilities will scale to meet the demands of our customers, while we also continue to lease and acquire Data Center capacity at pace, particularly in our high growth markets, working closely with datacenter operators in each region, and across the Globe.
- The Global Acquisition team is responsible for delivering high quality Data Center capacity in line with our projected growth. This Director Role will be a pivotal member of the EMEA team, who owns the delivery in region to support our Cloud growth in both existing and new geographies, as needed by the wider business.
- As we grow rapidly in both new and existing markets, we will develop clear business strategies, aligning our land and lease portfolio, to ensure we can deliver high quality Data Centers both now and in the future, to tie to our Customer growth. We are responsible for the development and ownership of key strategic partnerships with lessors, working collaboratively to ensure we deliver contracted capacity safely and effectively, on time and within budget.
- The role of the Site Acquisition Director is a unique role, working to support the General Manager of Site Acquisition, to deliver the strategic direction and management of the high growth of the region.
- The role will manage a team of Site Acquisition Managers, as well as providing provide support to all leasing activities, by helping with strategic purchasing opportunities, contract amendments, completion of post lease/contract paperwork and ownership of contract expansions in stabilized markets.
Responsibilities
- To develop high quality metro strategies based on market expertise, with time to market and cost efficiencies being core to this process
- To align with our teams to ensure effective co-ordination of activities to ensure region success (capacity planning, network, energy etc.)
- To lead cross functional teams to evaluate, select, negotiate, and recommend leases for approval
- Work with Finance reps to conduct Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) lease or build options to drive cost down, and help business to achieve deployment objectives
- Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders to ensure primary responsibilities are aligned with group’s strategic directions
- Manage multiple lease projects and coordinate with internal team members, consultants, vendors, and external stakeholders
- To be accountable for lease execution from inception through to ‘go-live’ date ~ delivering each milestone within critical timelines required by the business
- Work with internal law & corporate affairs personnel to drive preparation of executable lease documents
- Additional responsibilities include performing analytics and conducting market research on targeted metros and regions, new countries, metros, and target locations. The role will support the team with strong analytical reporting on market strategies, outlining risks on delivery (cost and timelines) and supporting the team with day to day activities as needed.
- In addition, the role will manage or support new colocation leases and extensions as well as lease renewals. This role will work closely with our regional demand planning, engineering, construction, security, networking, energy, and operations teams as well as with various global teams and leaders.
- The candidate must also be able to converse with finance, operations, security, and networking representatives to prepare business cases and deal summaries – and present those to senior staff for approval, prior to routing executable documents
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Arts or Sciences or Business or technical discipline
- 7 to 10 years’ experience in site selection and acquisition role within a Cloud Service Provider or Real Estate Group in a multi-national
- Strong knowledge of real estate and mission critical environments, such as Data Centers and/or critical environments
- A strong experienced leader, with proven track record guiding teams through complex negotiations at Director level
- Background in real estate development and land acquisition – with a strong understanding of local laws, permitting etc.
- General understanding of hybrid real estate solutions such as build-to-suit, Retail, and Wholesale datacenter leases
- Experience in leading complex negotiations, contract formation, and contract negotiations
- Confident, takes ownership, willingness to “do what it takes” to get the job done with proven experience leading complex negotiations/initiatives to successful completion
- Ability to be a strong team player, plus an ability to deliver independently; must be able to deliver results or projects in a timely manner
- Strong knowledge of the Data Center industry, operators in region and market dynamics in EMEA essential
- Strong analytical, creative thinking, written, and verbal communications skills
- Proven ability to apply critical thinking in complex situations
- Willing to travel domestically or internationally as needed
- Experience with corporate communications and public relations strategies
- The ideal candidate will have experience working in a team environment delivering multiple real estate projects simultaneously and a strong support for the team
- This position requires an individual that has prior hands-on experience in supporting a team managing complex lease and land negotiations, knowing when assistance is required and stepping into support the individual
- Strong co-ordination experience and ideally some knowledge of negotiating lease in a fast-paced environment
- Strong reporting acumen to ensure the strategy is outlined clearly and effectively
- Key role to support the General Manager, outlining any changes and possible risks on delivery of strategy based on team progress and ability to deliver land and lease acquisitions on time and in budget
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Job Number: 918017
Location: Lagos
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Description
- 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.
Qualifications
This job might be for you if:
- You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or 10+ years experience building online services and data solutions
- 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
You have experience with:
- Object-oriented languages like Java/C#
- Web technologies like Javascript
- Scripting languages like Python/Powershell
- Working with Big Data
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Program Manager – Internship Opportunities for Students and Recent Graduates
Job number: 918714
Locations: Nairobi, Nairobi City, Kenya (Lagos, Nigeria)
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Internship
Details
- Microsoft’s mission is 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.
- We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world.
- You will collaborate with a committed team to design, develop and test the next generation of technology solutions for millions of people.
Responsibilities
We are looking for candidates who have the following qualities:
- Team Players: 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.
- Relentlessly Resourceful: you have the drive to overcome any obstacle in your work.
- Customer Obsessed: 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.
Other Responsibilities:
- You drive the technical vision, design, and implementation of software solutions.
Program Manager
- Program managers (PMs) are the in-house advocates for millions of people worldwide who predict and research how software is used and work closely with Software Engineers (SWEs) to ensure our products exceed people’s expectations
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field with at least one semester/quarter remaining after internship.
- A year or two of experience programming in C++, Java or other computer programming languages preferred.
- A year or two of experience in C/C++/C#/VB.NET and experience designing and developing tool architecture preferred.
- Familiarity with managing complex project schedules, solving complex problems and nurturing cross-group collaboration.
- Strong technical prowess, including understanding of algorithms, systems architecture and end-user experience.
- Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.
- Demonstrated expertise in feature definition, design and feasibility.
- Demonstrated skill in estimating development time
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
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
- Discounts on products and services
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Intern Opportunities for Students: Finance
Job Number: 918647
Locations: Lagos, (Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa), Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Finance
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Internship
Details
Business Analyst Intern:
- Are you looking forward to a career in finance? Microsoft’s finance internship opportunity has the training you need to get your career in finance underway.
- You will have the opportunity to develop strong business acumen, enhance your personal management competencies and walk away with a valuable transferable skill set.
- We know you will find the work at Microsoft both challenging and rewarding, and we believe your contribution will be meaningful – one that will offer a high level of personal satisfaction.
Responsibilities
The Business Analyst role has 3 primary functions; Revenue Reporting, Large Projects, and Analysis. Typical activities and impact within these 3 functions include:
- Prepare, update and maintain standard management reporting to meet the needs of customer groups within the Canadian subsidiary.
- Create and modify business processes, reporting metrics and ad hoc reports for various end customers to drive financial results
- Update daily/weekly/monthly suite of revenue analysis reports directed towards Senior levels of Management.
- Provide monthly close analysis on revenue variances, growth and key metrics
- Partner with management and the Analyst team to maintain the relevance and accuracy of reports within a diverse and dynamic business environment
- Assist internal business groups by troubleshooting data issues and perform variance analysis; analyze causes and provide resolutions
- Provide support to business analysts and internal business groups as required through tailored ad-hoc queries and reporting for detailed financial analysis during product launches and marketing campaigns
- Manage, update and maintain the Canadian Finance intranet site to facilitate cross-functional collaboration
- Examples of projects could include Fiscal Year Rollover (May – July), Monthly Business Reviews, Budget/Planning (April – June), and Forecasting (Monthly/Quarterly). (Degree of involvement in projects may also depend on business need.
Qualifications
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Commerce, Business or related field (pursuing with at least one quarter/semester remaining after the internship).
- Available for an 6-8 month consecutive internship starting Winter 2021.
- Intermediate to advanced levels in Microsoft Excel, Power BI and Access.
- Knowledge of Pivot Tables and formula creation is a necessity.
- Knowledge of macros, spreadsheet modeling and database skills are definite assets.
- Strong business/accounting acumen, with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Proactive and goal-orientated; able to meet deadlines, manage time effectively and adopt responsibility for projects.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
- Self-motivated and able to work both independently and work effectively within a team environment.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online