Job Vacancies at Microsoft Nigeria

Lagos Mainland    04-08-2021
 

Description



Job Number: 1119959

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

Overview


Do you want to work in a highly impactful area with passionate and creative people who are dedicated to building compliant products and services, and helping meet commitment to our Customers that Microsoft runs on Trust? 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 the W+D CARE (Compliance and App Readiness Experiences) team, part of the Windows and Devices organization. The team focuses on protocol engineering, privacy engineering, tools and platform development, which are critical to Microsoft's business.

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:


Experience with scripting Languages like Python / PowerShell.

Experience with Machine Learning and Natural Language processing would be an advantage.


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: 1119961
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview



Do you want to work in a highly impactful area with passionate and creative people who are dedicated to building compliant products and services, and helping meet commitment to our Customers that Microsoft runs on Trust? If so, the Windows, Devices, and Gaming (WDG) Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) team in the Experiences + Devices organization is looking for an accomplished Program Manager to lead and drive high quality compliance programs, operations and tooling. In addition to enhancing customer trust, the mission of the GRC organization is to protect Microsoft revenue by managing risk, ensuring resiliency, exceeding internal and external regulatory, and overall product quality and compliance for key products and services.



Responsibilities


As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for working with a team of professionals focused on supporting and driving Microsoft compliance programs and chartered with ensuring that Microsoft products and services meet regulatory requirements and corporate policies and principles.

This position requires the ability to navigate across the Enterprise with coordination at all levels, excellent oral and written communication skills, and the ability to formulate issues and recommendations clearly.

The role will focus on ensuring that business-aligned tactics are in place to support delivery of our company-wide goals and objectives.

Work cross-functionally with all areas of the program, including product and services teams, CELA, process partners and other key stakeholders by driving compliance rhythm of business

Update and maintain data in business systems and resolve data quality issues with business owners and engineering teams.

Monitor and report progress against various compliance goals.

Monitor compliance bugs, tasks and exception requests, working with engineering teams to identify deadlines, and ensure resolutions on-time.

Manage content of internal team documentation and websites to improve communication within our team and engineering teams.


Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:


Minimum 3 - 5 years prior experience in technical program management/product development engineering.



Additional or Preferred Qualifications:


B.Sc / B.A Degree in Computer Science; Information Systems, Engineering, Business or related field or the equivalent experience.

Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with peers and leadership on a regular rhythm.

Excellent process-oriented project management, organizational skills and detailed oriented.

Demonstrated foresight to identify potential issues for Microsoft and address them proactively.

Must be able to work well in a team environment and with ambiguity.

Ability to understand a range of hardware/software technologies.

Strong focus on engineering excellence and positive team culture.

Experience with Microsoft tools such as ADO, GitHub, SharePoint, etc.

Experience with data integration/database engineering platforms and services

Familiarity with Live Site and DevOps best practices.


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:1098146
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview


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.


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.


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: 1120059
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview


Do you want to work in a highly impactful area with passionate and creative people who are dedicated to building compliant products and services, and helping meet commitment to our Customers that Microsoft runs on Trust? If so, the Windows, Devices, and Gaming (WDG) Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) team in the Experiences + Devices organization is looking for an accomplished Senior Program Manager to lead and drive high quality compliance programs, operations and tooling.

In addition to enhancing customer trust, the mission of the GRC organization is to protect Microsoft revenue by managing risk, ensuring resiliency, exceeding internal and external regulatory, and overall product quality and compliance for key products and services.


Responsibilities


As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for working with a team of professionals focused on supporting and driving Microsoft compliance programs and chartered with ensuring that Microsoft products and services meet regulatory requirements and corporate policies and principles. This position requires the ability to navigate across the Enterprise with coordination at all levels, excellent oral and written communication skills, and the ability to formulate issues and recommendations clearly. The role will focus on ensuring that business-aligned tactics are in place to support delivery of our company-wide goals and objectives.

Work with customers and partners to successfully onboard them to compliance services.

Help define requirements and write specifications for new tooling capabilities, develop workflow diagrams, perform risk/cost benefit analyses, and be a conduit to the GRC engineering team.

Work cross-functionally with all areas of the program, including product and services teams, CELA, process partners and other key stakeholders by driving compliance rhythm of business and GRC leadership awareness of compliance issues and opportunities.

Update and maintain data in business systems and resolve data quality issues with business owners and engineering teams.

Monitor and report progress against various compliance goals.

Monitor compliance bugs, tasks and exception requests, working with engineering teams to identify deadlines, and ensure resolutions on-time.

Manage content of internal team documentation and websites to improve communication within our team and engineering teams.


Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:


Minimum 7-10 years prior experience in technical program management/product development engineering


Additional or Preferred Qualifications:


BS/BA in Computer Science; Information Systems, Engineering, Business or related field or the equivalent experience.

Demonstrated track record of defining process/product strategy, building partner commitment around it, and successfully delivering on time.

Excellent skill in authoring precision functional specifications.

Strong leadership skills with great verbal/written communication and results driven.

Excellent process-oriented project management, organizational skills and detailed oriented.

Demonstrated experience working effectively in cross-group environments; high collaboration and social skills.

Demonstrated foresight to identify potential issues for Microsoft and address them proactively.

Must be able to work well in a team environment and with ambiguity.

Technical depth in feature and cross-dependency architectures.

Ability to understand a range of hardware/software technologies.

Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills to work through conflicts diplomatically, ability to drive clarity in chaos and organize people’s workload.

Strong focus on engineering excellence and positive team culture.

Experience working with geographically distributed teams and partners.

Prior working experience in compliance programs, operations or tooling.

Experience with Microsoft tools such as ADO, GitHub, SharePoint, etc.

Experience with data integration/database engineering platforms and service.

Familiarity with Live Site and DevOps best practices

Experience with ML/AI and statistics

Experience developing APIs and coding.


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: 1098612
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Legal & Corporate Affairs
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview


At Microsoft, we believe technology is a powerful force for improving people’s lives. We see it every day in our work - whether it is students discovering the magic of creating something new with code, or health workers who use cloud services to diagnose illnesses better, collaborate with colleagues, and treat patients. Through Microsoft Philanthropies we will help fulfil Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by providing the benefits of technology, and the skills to use and create it, to people and organizations who need them the most. We advance the company’s mission by making the opportunities of our rapidly evolving digital economy accessible to all people, particularly those most at risk of being left behind.

We are looking for a seasoned Corporate Social Responsibility/Corporate Philanthropy professional who will be charged with managing the local enablement and implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies across Sub Sahran Africa, reporting to the MEA Regional Director of Microsoft Philanthropies.


Responsibilities
The Philanthropies’ Lead reports to the MEA Philanthropies Regional Director and has the following responsibilities:


Represent the Microsoft Philanthropies organization in Sub Sahran Africa, serving as subject-matter-expert and liaison for business stakeholders, providing timely insight, feedback and expert field implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies’ top strategies and priorities.

Work with the Sub Sahran Africa countries Leadership team to represent the Philanthropies core strategies and initiatives to drive maximum impact and align with the business priorities.

Work with the Microsoft Philanthropies programs teams to implement core strategies and programs for the maximum impact, including Skills and Employability, S500 Engagement, AI4Good, Employee Engagement, public policy and advocacy initiatives, and social good marketing.

Develop and execute a strategic plan, setting goals, aligning with internal and external stakeholders, balancing investment delivery through both a depth approach and breadth tactics enabling broad reach of beneficiaries.

Build a rhythm of engagement between MEA Philanthropies and the Sub Sahran Africa Philanthropies to provide guidance and content to drive excellence in execution.

Provide insights and feedback to global field guidance and programmatic planning, as well as to adapt content for local implementation of programs and campaigns.


Core Priorities


Digital Skills and Employability:

Develop Digital Skills and Employability strategies to equip underserved communities with computing and AI skills to be employed in the digital economy.

Execute on Micrsoft Africa National Development plan working closely with multistakeholders to define the DS+E strategy for Sub Sahran Africa to drive scale and impact.



Philanthropic Partnerships:

Engage Microsoft’s most important strategic customers and partners in Sub Sahran countries to advance Microsoft’s Philanthropic while deepening partnerships with our most strategic customers.

Focus on developing and fostering partnership opportunities to advance our priorities in Digital Skills & Employability, AI for Good, and in driving Employee Engagement.



Outreach, advocacy, and influence: Build perception and awareness of Microsoft's societal impact. Partner with Public Affairs, Government Affairs, and Communications and Marketing teams to support the effective implementation of social good marketing campaigns to help achieve programmatic goals.

Contribute to driving Business Impact: Build strategic partnerships with the subsidiaries in Sub Sahran countries, align with the local country plan so that Philanthropies programs help open doors and strengthen relationships that can pave the way for business impact.

Operational / Administrative: Manage budgets effectively, including allocation, management of the forecast and spend, on time and within compliance.


Other


Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications


5 - 7+ years experience as a Corporate Social Responsibility practitioner in a corporate or nonprofit setting working across the Sub Sahran region.

Experience in managing and implementing employability programs both job placement and entrepreneurship.

Proven ability and experience in developing and managing public-private partnerships.

Fluency in English (REquired) and French (preferred).

Creative, innovative and growth mindset.

Strategic and inclusive thinking.

Ability to communicate effectively with direct teams, internal and external stakeholders, customers, and leaders in a matrixed environment.

National understanding and context: Ability to execute programs to deliver measurable impact against the local, provincial, and national contexts in Canada.

Aptitude to understand the programmatic solutions and how to apply to the market opportunity.

Strong understanding of emerging digital technologies and the opportunities that these new trends offer to advance social and economic outcomes.

Aptitude to understand how to leverage Cloud and AI technology in addressing Societal challenges.


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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