Job Vacancies at Microsoft Nigeria – 5 Positions

Job number: 1246611
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

• Are you insatiably curious? Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together? Are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation?
• We are building the Developer Relations dream team in Azure engineering. Our global team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds. We're excited to support and contribute to open-source platforms, tools, and processes. We’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn.
• This is the heart and soul of reinventing Microsoft’s relationship with developers. Sound exciting? This is your opportunity to join and be a key part of our mission! Learn more here: www.aka.ms/meettheteam
• We are looking for Academic Cloud Advocates who will be instrumental in building a large and vibrant student developer community through student mentorship in collaboration with Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors and Imagine Cup programs.
• You’ll also be empowered to create amazing, authentic demos/content on a broad range of technologies, provide and generate robust engineering feedback around Azure and developer tooling utilized by Academic Developers and build interactive workshops with Microsoft Learn. Join us as we inspire and earn the hearts and minds of developers broadly

Responsibilities

• As an Academic Cloud Advocate in Student Developer Programs, the core impact of this role is engaging and growing our university engagement through our educators and students, Microsoft Learn Ambassadors programs, Imagine Cup competition, hackathons, and workshops on campus plus online skilling with Microsoft Learn.

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Content Delivery, Experience, and Strategy

• Drive content delivery with broader scope for multiple features or a set of key scenarios related to a product. Use understanding of how content within academic domain impacts educator and student experiences to deliver content, experiences, and strategy. Influence both feature development and the content experience. Ensure content experiences adhere to guidelines/standards/values (e.g., accessibility, inclusive content, Microsoft brand guidelines, compliance, search engine optimization). Leverage data from multiple sources to align content activities to business metrics and assess impact. Adapt content services to local markets and cultures.

Content Creation:

• Apply principles to develop relevant, technically accurate content designed for educator and students. Helps develop content plan that bridges surface, aligns with product strategy, and translates into content tasks in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., engineering, research, design, product) to understand products/content areas/features and problems to author optimal content. Develop content by first understanding prototypes and ideation of features for product/content/feature area(s). Apply a foundational understanding of in-product content and/or delivers code, samples, and prescriptive guidance to meet user needs.

Content Improvement:

• Review and improve content for possible inclusion in a portfolio for one or more areas. Follow approval and review process with team members. Work with stakeholders to assess shipped content for potential improvements and to incorporate changes. Test and build customer scenarios

Driving Business Impact and Continuous Improvement:

• Leverage tools, processes, and methods to ensure content is relevant, accurate, and timely for audiences across markets. Identifies the data required to help measure content impact. Improves tools and customizes processes and workflows appropriately for their content area and evangelizes improvements to team members. Interpret data and audience feedback and converts it into improvement recommendations as they relate to content relevancy and optimizations related to monetization. Use understanding of the impact of technology (e.g., products, features, tools, algorithms/machine learning) on content delivery to determine how to use technology to align content with user needs (e.g., identifies queries). Participate in "item flighting" of features to sample with a small proportion of the users. Contribute toward improvements to the content experience, content development processes, and content-driven business impact.

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Partner Engagement (Internal or External Educators and Students:

• Evaluate products, services, and issues from the partner and audience perspective. Use understanding of developing trends in audience feedback and data to determine whether changes in programming strategies and tactics or additions in features are necessary. Develop ongoing relations with educators and students designed to ensure that content is being ingested in a timely manner and Microsoft quality standards are being realized. Contact partners to follow up on issues and solutions to ensure their needs have been correctly and effectively met. Ensures content production is working efficiently and takes steps to address it if necessary. May identify and suggest new partners to peers or leaders. Represent Microsoft and participates in partner relations in external events. Helps to generate and/or lead local opportunities with lead generation or monetization partners.
• Engage with students and educators to address customer feedback. Strive to make content educator and student focused by facilitating information sharing and incorporating changes from educators and student’s feedback. Engages with educator and student’s communities to provide support and expertise (e.g., blog posts, social posts, conversations, speaking at events).
• Build relationships with key influencer faculty, foster a healthy and vibrant technical community, and collect and prioritize product feedback and technical blockers with engineering.
• Scale your efforts by partnering with the Microsoft field, developers and academic community programs like Microsoft Learn Educator Ambassadors, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors and Microsoft MVPs.
• Recruit and mentor Student Developers in your geographic region and mentor them through the Microsoft Learn Ambassadors, Imagine Cup, and hackathon events.
• Focus on Microsoft products and services within AI/ ML, Modern Workplace, BizApp and Data, Web, Applications, and Azure Infrastructure.
• Network and build relationships with the students and educators and earn their trust and respect for Microsoft technologies.

Thought Leadership:

• Learn and understand the current state of content experiences in one's area of expertise, including knowledge of tools, techniques, strategies, and processes that can be utilized to improve process efficiency and performance. Maintain knowledge of current trends within the discipline. Stay updated on industry and competitive trends and adjusts the content strategy as needed. Share knowledge and best practices within teams and projects.

Project / Program Management:

• Ensure stakeholder alignment and identifies and mitigates risks for assigned projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., engineering, product, design) to design and enhance customer and content experiences. Align with expectations for content delivery and contributes to timely delivery. Manage change, negotiate deadlines and deliverables with stakeholders, prioritizes work, and advises management on status, under guidance.
• Consider cross-functional inputs and balance competing business objectives. Communicate content status and performance to cross-functional teams. Collaborate with vendors to produce specific content within the scope of a larger project or within a small region.
• Ensure vendors are meeting service level agreements (SLAs). Serves as a point of contact to answer questions, provide feedback, and review work.

Specialty Responsibility

• Review writing tasks completed by vendors/freelancers for one or more area(s). Begins to facilitate and ensure the outsourcing of parts of work to different vendors/freelancers.
• Onboards vendors during the initial process. Creates calendar of work for assigned vendors to complete.
• Focus on Microsoft products and services within AI, Modern Workplace, BizApp, Data and Data Science.
• Ability to translate ideas into various mediums for effective, audience-appropriate consumption.
• Ability to work under deadlines and prioritize projects.
• Passion for helping connect people and communities to Microsoft technologies inclusive of open source with a particular emphasis on engaging Student developers that are actively learning.
• Proven experience working with 3rd party communities, social media and blogging preferred).
• A self-starter that can manage and prioritize initiatives that will make our developers and platform the most successful.
• Understanding of student developers that are seeking to upskill, and why/how they make choices about the technologies they use.
• You have a “pulse” on the tech industry and a willingness to learn, share, and improve. Ability to self-study; ramp to latest technologies.
• Travel may be required depending on where local and national developer events are held.
• Language fluency in English plus the primary language for the geographic location of this role.

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Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in program management, digital content publishing/management, or experience in a writing or editing role
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years’ experience in program management, digital content publishing/management, or experience in a writing or editing role
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years recent experience with digital publishing modalities (e.g., Web, social media, in-product, training, online ads).

Skills and Experience:

• Principals of authentication scenarios including Azure AD authentication, OAuth authentication and OAuth Flows.
• Experience of developing against the Microsoft Graph including Graph SDKs and endpoints, OAuth, Azure Active Directory, MSAL/ADAL libraries etc…and the ability to develop REST API.
• Experience of developing against Microsoft AI services.
• Implementation of Azure Functions using PowerShell, Typescript, JavaScript, Python, C#/.NET, Node.js and React.
• General development skills demonstrating the ability to develop in Typescript, JavaScript, React, HTML / CSS / SCSS / JSON / XML.
• Experience of Power Automate Flow native actions, custom connectors, adaptive cards and calling out to APIs.
• Strong knowledge of adaptive cards and actionable messages within Microsoft Teams.
• Experience in the development and technical architectures of solutions consisting of all aspects of the M365 stack including, Teams, SharePoint & Azure.
• Strong knowledge on the SharePoint security model and its capabilities.
• Experience in SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Strong understanding of supporting technologies including Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET Framework, IIS, Clustering, NLB, Storage Capabilities, ISA Server, and SQL Reporting
• Strong familiarity with Cloud Services
• Experience working in Agile Methodologies.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Business Acumen
• Compliance Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Content Discoverability
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Creativity
• Data Analysis
• Decision Making
• Diversity Promotion
• English Language Proficiency
• Information Architecture
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job number: 1246609
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

• Are you insatiably curious?
• Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together?
• Are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation?
• We are building the Developer Relations dream team in Azure engineering. Our global team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds.
• We're excited to support and contribute to open-source platforms, tools, and processes.
• We’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn.
• We are looking for Academic Cloud Advocates who will be instrumental in building a large and vibrant educator and student developer community through mentorship in collaboration with Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors and Imagine Cup programs.
• You’ll also be empowered to create amazing, authentic demos/content on a broad range of technologies, provide and generate robust engineering feedback around Azure and developer tooling utilized by Academic Developers and build interactive workshops with Microsoft Learn. Join us as we inspire and earn the hearts and minds of developers broadly

Responsibilities

• As an Academic Cloud Advocate in Student Developer Programs, the core impact of this role is engaging and growing our university engagement through our educators and students, Microsoft Learn Ambassadors programs, Imagine Cup competition, hackathons, and workshops on campus plus online skilling with Microsoft Learn.

Content Delivery, Experience, and Strategy:

• Deliver content for a feature or limited set of features or educator and student scenarios.
• Works with senior colleagues to understand how their work fits into the bigger picture.
• Gather content requirements from others to effectively deliver content.
• Contribute to the content curation process by assisting with defining content themes within specific products.
• Combine product business metrics to assess impact of work and optimize content.
• Build knowledge of and ensure content experiences adhere to guidelines / standards / values (e.g., accessibility, inclusive content, Microsoft brand guidelines, compliance, search engine optimization).

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Content Creation:

• Follow guidelines and standards to develop relevant, technically accurate content designed for a specific product/content/feature area as assigned by a senior team member.
• Collaborates with team members to understand products/content areas/features and problems to author optimal content. Builds a foundational understanding of in-product content.

Content Improvement:

• Receive feedback from a senior team member and incorporate changes into content for an assigned area and/or for possible inclusion in a portfolio. Uses appropriate tools to move content to publication after review is complete for a particular area as assigned, where applicable.
• Works with stakeholders to assess shipped content for potential improvements. Assist in testing and building educator and student scenarios.

Driving Business Impact and Continuous Improvement:

• Ensure content curated across assigned areas is updated in a timely manner to reflect trending topics and information relevant to the audience.
• Monitor data sources, competitors, social media, and other relevant content sites to assist with the curation of content across canvasses.
• May report on content performance to stakeholders.
• Uses tools (e.g., dashboards, algorithms) to augment the content publishing process as appropriate.
• Provide input on product strategy and complexity for production and capacity planning.
• Ensures that size and scope of intended audience for content is understood, and that a plan is followed to reach that audience. Assess and ensure content quality to drive business impact.
• Execute global plans locally. Supports "item flighting" of features to sample with a small proportion of the users.

Partner Engagement (Internal or External educators and students):

• Engage with existing educators, students and stakeholders to equip them with the correct information and meet their expectations.
• Consistently works to meet or exceed audience and partner expectations and provide a positive experience. Resolves partner or audience problems within their job scope (e.g., corrects errors in editorial programming) highlighted by audience/partner feedback.
• Gather audience and customer feedback and data relating to content and features and integrates or makes recommendations on how to integrate this feedback into programming. May educate partners and/or stakeholders on product changes or updates. Supports local opportunities with lead generation or monetization partners.
• Engage with students and educators to address customer feedback. Strives to make content customer focused by facilitating information sharing and incorporating changes from educators and student’s feedback.
• Engages with educator and student’s communities to provide support and expertise (e.g., blog posts, social posts, conversations, speaking at events).
• Build relationships with key influencer faculty, foster a healthy and vibrant technical community, and collect and prioritize product feedback and technical blockers with engineering.
• Scale your efforts by partnering with the Microsoft field, developers and academic community programs like Microsoft Learn Educator Ambassadors, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, Microsoft MVPs
• Recruit and mentor Student Developers in your geographic region and mentor them through the Microsoft Learn Ambassadors, Imagine Cup, and hackathon events.
• Focus on Microsoft products and services within AI/ ML, Modern Workplace, BizApp and Data, Web, Applications, and Azure Infrastructure.
• Network and build relationships with the students and educators and earn their trust and respect for Microsoft technologies.

Thought Leadership:

• Learn and understand the current state of content experiences in one's area of expertise, including knowledge of tools, techniques, strategies, and processes that can be utilized to improve process efficiency and performance.
• Maintains knowledge of current trends within the discipline.
• Stays updated on industry and competitive trends and adjusts the content strategy as needed.
• Share knowledge and best practices within teams and projects.

Project/Program Management:

• Assume accountability for reporting out and clearly communicating on status. Collaborate with team members to enhance customer and content experiences. Align with expectations for content delivery and contributes to timely delivery.

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Specialty Responsibility:

• Focus on Microsoft products and services within faculty engagements around Power Platform, m365, Data and AI
• Ability to translate ideas into various mediums for effective, audience-appropriate consumption.
• Ability to work under deadlines and prioritize projects.
• Passion for helping connect people and communities to Microsoft technologies inclusive of open source with a particular emphasis on engaging Student developers that are actively learning.
• Proven experience working with 3rd party communities, social media and blogging preferred).
• A self-starter that can manage and prioritize initiatives that will make our developers and platform the most successful.
• Understanding of student developers that are seeking to upskill, and why/how they make choices about the technologies they use.
• You have a “pulse” on the tech industry and a willingness to learn, share, and improve. Ability to self-study; ramp to latest technologies.
• Travel may be required depending on where local and national developer events are held.
• Language fluency in English plus the primary language for the geographic location of this role.

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• 1+ year(s) experience in program management, digital content publishing/management, or experience in a writing or editing role
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 1+ year(s) experience in program management, digital content publishing/management, or experience in a writing or editing role
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) recent experience with digital publishing modalities (e.g., Web, social media, in-product, training, online ads).

Skills Required:

• Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerBI)
• Office 365 (Graph, SharePoint and Integration)
• API usage
• Experience of capturing user requirements
• Experience of documenting business solutions
• Knowledge of academia or public sector organisations

 Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Compliance Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Content Discoverability
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Creativity
• Data Analysis
• Diversity Promotion
• English Language Proficiency
• Information Architecture

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job number: 1218962
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

• Our team, a part of the Windows and Devices organization focuses on protocol engineering, privacy engineering, tools and platform development, which are critical to Microsoft's business.
• Are you interested in learning more about Windows internals, and the protocols that work behind the scenes to make everyday tasks and computer operations happen?
• Come join our team. We are an energetic and innovative team. Our daily work would equip you with in-depth knowledge on protocol and networking parsing, leverage Azure technologies and web front-end technologies to build services, at the same time you are encouraged to use new technologies like Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to solve real business challenges.
• We leverage in-depth Windows protocols knowledge and networking parsing knowledge to build protocol test suites and network parsers detailed to each bit, and host/support world-wide interoperability events in US and Europe with 100+ industry partner companies’ participation yearly, which is critical to help Microsoft meet and exceed compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and platforms to support protocol engineering, which are open sourced on GitHub;
• Respond to open source community on GitHub.
• Represent Microsoft to attend Worldwide Interoperability Plugfest events.
• Implement server/client protocol behavior to guarantee Windows Protocol document quality and validate windows interoperability for new windows releases or updates to ensure Microsoft’s antitrust compliance commitment.
• Develop other compliance related tools/Azure services utilizing latest technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 - 10 years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with scripting Languages like Python/PowerShell.
• Experience with Machine Learning and Natural Language processing would be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Number: 1239706
Location: Lagos
Employment Type:  Full-Time
Travel: 0-25 %
Role Type: Individual Contributor
Profession: Engineering

Overview

• 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 colleagues brainstorming around a giant digital whiteboard, scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars, or some yet undreamt-of possibility.
• To get there, we’re incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, and more.
• We’re a diverse team of talented Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Artists putting technology on a human path across all devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Kinect for Azure, the Internet of Things, Phones, Tablets, Desktops, Xbox, and Surface Hub. We believe Mixed Reality technology empowers every person and organization to achieve more. If you do too, we need you!

Responsibilities

• The Microsoft Mesh team is pioneering the future of collaborative computing in Mixed Reality. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the client SDK team responsible for the core developer experience of the platform.
• Software Engineers (SWEs) work with teammates to solve problems and build innovative software solutions.
• You are passionate about customers and product quality, and you provide technical guidance to Program Managers as they consider user needs and product requirements.
• You will also be expected to demonstrate an ability to learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes to leverage in your solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience in C++, C#, Rust, or other systems programming languages.
• Experience developing for at least one of : PC, Xbox, Mac, Android, iOS.

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to demonstrate understanding of algorithms, data structures and other systems architecture factors that affect code quality, performance, and customer experience.
• Experience building software outside of the classroom environment like an internship, hackathon, research project or related experience.
• Knowledge of game engine middleware: Unity3D, Unreal Engine etc.
• Demonstrated skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Number: 1184936
Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full-Time
Profession: Engineering
Role type: People Manager
Travel: 0 - 25%

Overview

• Across Microsoft, we’re accelerating progress to a more sustainable future with ambitious goals such as becoming carbon negative by 2030 and removing all carbon the company has emitted from the atmosphere by 2050.
• The Windows and Devices organization has a significant role to play here given the carbon emissions associated with manufacturing new PCs and the energy consumed by our large (over one Billion) and growing user base.
• Does the thought of producing code that supports over 1 billion users positively inspire you?
• Are you excited by the thought of delivering top notch, quality user experiences that delight users?
• Are you an engineer looking to tackle hard problems using big data and machine learning?
• Are you interested in the challenges of building large-scale, highly available services?
• If you answered in the affirmative to any or all of these, then this role might just be for you.

Responsibilities

• We’re looking for a manager with experience managing software engineers to join our sustainability efforts in the Windows and Devices organization.
• In this role, the ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers who design, write, ship and motivate the creation of engineering and data products that optimize the energy emissions from the 1B+ Windows user base.
• The ideal candidate will forge partnerships with others across the engineering and program management disciplines, and with our insider ecosystem to drive improvements into the release of Windows.
• Finally, as a senior member of the team, the right candidate will have the opportunity to take on technical leadership roles and drive scenarios across teams, mentor and foster younger, less experienced engineers, and create and maintain a culture and environment that engenders diversity and inclusion.

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Qualifications
Required Skills:

• Bachelor's and/or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of relevant industry software design and development experience working with a major programming/scripting language (C++, C#, Java, Python).
• 3+ years’ demonstrated experience of being a people manager / team leader.
• Strong design, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to resolve ambiguities effectively, prioritize and drive projects to completion, prioritize between multiple needs and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Demonstrated history of promoting engineering excellence within a team; design for reliability, testing, measurement, and understanding of the complete software lifecycle.
• Attention to detail; passion for great design.
• Obsession for great end user experiences and outcomes.
• Ability to grow and maintain organizational and interpersonal relationships.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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