Software Engineer II

The Marketplace Services (M$) team is responsible for the services which power Microsoft’s marketplaces in Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox and on the web.   We work in both the retail and consumer space to provide our customers a reliable, frictionless and easily managed commerce experience. This includes all aspects of catalog management and search, payment instrument management, purchasing, licensing, and fulfillment.   Our services light up some of the most demanding clients including Xbox, Music, Video, App, and Games across the globe.   We provide rich client side programming APIs that provide seamless browsing and shopping experiences across our service suite.

The M$ team is looking for a talented, self-motivated SE to join a top-notch engineering team which is building the purchase and physical fulfillment services that power microsoftstore.com.   As part of this team you will be building the services that light up physical product sales and fulfillment across all of Microsoft’s retail marketplaces.   This is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an effort that has direct and massive impact on the success of Microsoft.

A successful candidate will have the following:

* Strong design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills

* Robust knowledge of service oriented architectures, distributed computation, and cloud services

“ Deep understanding of RESTful interface design, Azure services, and WCF implementation

* Strong programming language skills in C#, T-SQL, or both

* 5+ years’ experience

* A Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Engineer II

The Marketplace Services (M$) team is responsible for the services which power Microsoft’s marketplaces in Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox and on the web.   We work in both the retail and consumer space to provide our customers a reliable, frictionless and easily managed commerce experience. This includes all aspects of catalog management and search, payment instrument management, purchasing, licensing, and fulfillment.   Our services light up some of the most demanding clients including Xbox, Music, Video, App, and Games across the globe.   We provide rich client side programming APIs that provide seamless browsing and shopping experiences across our service suite.

The M$ team is looking for a talented, self-motivated SE to join a top-notch engineering team which is building the purchase and physical fulfillment services that power microsoftstore.com.   As part of this team you will be building the services that light up physical product sales and fulfillment across all of Microsoft’s retail marketplaces.   This is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an effort that has direct and massive impact on the success of Microsoft.

A successful candidate will have the following:

* Strong design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills

* Robust knowledge of service oriented architectures, distributed computation, and cloud services

“ Deep understanding of RESTful interface design, Azure services, and WCF implementation

* Strong programming language skills in C#, T-SQL, or both

* 5+ years’ experience

* A Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Support Escalation Engineer - Exchange Client

Location:   US

Travel Required:   20%

Role Name:   Support Escalation Engineer - Exchange Client

Preferred Location:   Charlotte, NC

Alternate Locations: Dallas, TX; Reston, VA; Redmond, WA; Fargo, ND

In some cases, the position can also be located in another major city in the United States.

Do you have a passion for Messaging Services?   Do you want to be a key technical contributor in a rapidly growing & profitable “Enterprise” team?   Do you want to work in a division that has a direct impact on Microsoft’s bottom-line?   If you want to join a fast-paced team & have an impact on a growing our Messaging business, this is the opportunity for you to drive the evolution of Microsoft Messaging Support while keeping customer satisfaction as the top priority!   This is an opportunity for you to be constantly challenged as the Messaging team expands to provide broader capabilities to our Public Sector customers, and to work in collaboration with multiple Microsoft teams inside of Customer Service and Support and Engineering and Operations teams.

Beyond extensive technical and product focus, this role requires the ability to frame and communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely, show exceptional attention to detail, and demonstrate the ability to build broad relationships with the right influencers, leveraging those relationships to impact key business results for our business. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and use this understanding to influence key decision makers in both Support and the Engineering Groups.   You must be able to work well under pressure while also exhibiting flexibility with a strong tolerance for managing through ambiguity and uncertainty.

The CSS Public Sector group is an organization chartered to deliver increased value to some of our most important customers.   PubSec engineers have the opportunity to work with one consistent segment customizing support, services, and offerings to meet these customers’ needs.   Engineers can move between proactive services delivering preventative, health-driving services on site, or to providing reactive deep technical assistance via phone.

At Microsoft, the sentence: “That’s not our problem” doesn’t exist in our lexicon.   With thousands of employees, we deliver world-class assistance around the clock to our customers, partners and developers in 24 languages.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements are required for this role.   These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  Citizenship Verification:   This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet US Federal Government security requirements.

  Fingerprint Background Check: This position may be required to pass a customer required Fingerprint Background Check.

  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position may be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

  Criminal Justice Information Services: This position may require passing a background check conducted through the CJIS criminal justice information system by authorized local, state, and/or federal agencies.

  Public Trust Position: This position may require passing a United States Public Trust Position (PTP) background investigation to meet federal, state and/or local government requirements.

  US Government Security Clearance:   Candidates for this position must currently hold or be able to obtain a US Security Clearance with the US Federal Government.

This position may require you to work a rotational on-call schedule including occasionally deep nights, as well as some domestic and international travel.   This job is eligible for the following work arrangements:   Compressed Work Week, Flex Time, Telework.

Responsibilities include:

The Support Escalation Engineer is responsible for support delivery, providing technical support to Developer customers by resolving complex technical customer issues on Microsoft Exchange client connectivity and Outlook, and delivering Technical Support achieving high Customer Satisfaction and workflow efficiency targets; to identify required tools, access, training, processes or capabilities to assess and resolve customer issues.   Team members will need to closely collaborate with engineering and operations teams as well as other support engineering teams.

QUALIFICATIONS:

SOFT SKILLS

  Leadership - handle technically challenging and politically hot customer situations

  Strong communications skills - Excellent spoken and written English communication skills

  Effective, polished interaction with customer both on the telephone and potentially face-to-face to gather information

  Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills, an ability to use various data collection tools and methodologies to analyze problems and develop solutions

  Ability to work collaboratively with the Engineering teams to drive architectural changes throughout the environments to improve stability of each environment

  Outstanding partnering capabilities

  Ability to drive product/service improvements in core technical focus area

  Logical and Critical thinking, and demonstrated success in dealing with ambiguity and problem definition under continual deadline constraints

  Passion for technology and customer support

  Understanding of cloud vs. on premise computing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Knowledge of one or two of the following domains:   Outlook, Exchange Client connectivity, Networking, Active Directory.

Outlook

– Working knowledge of Outlook interaction with connectivity to Exchange Server

– Understanding of how customers work within Outlook as a productivity tool that connects with Exchange, SharePoint and other Microsoft applications.

Exchange Server

– General knowledge of Exchange server versions 2007 and higher including administration, mailbox creation, permissions required for managers and delegates

– Knowledge of Exchange profile configuration, Calendaring, Delegate Access.

General Windows Experience

– Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose issues using tools, labs and online documentation

– Knowledge of Active Directory with Windows 2003 and higher

– Understanding of networking components

EXPERIENCE

  At least 3 years of Technical Support experience (in a Tier 3 environment) including experience in a customer-facing or customer technical support role

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

  B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Technical Solutions Professional - PDW, Incubation Sales team

Are you excited about an opportunity to drive WW Sales and work with emerging technologies? Are you interested in the Data Warehousing space and the opportunity to be part of Microsoft’s growth engine?   If so, then the Incubation Sales - Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW) TSP role is right for you!

Data Warehousing, Big Data and Appliance based solutions represents key growth areas for the SQL Server Platform, and is a strategic priority for Microsoft.  

Key responsibilities and activities in this role include:

•      Successfully driving win rates within assigned Data Warehouse opportunities through the delivery of technical sales engagements, POCs and technical presentations.

•      Assist in performing the technical qualification of assigned opportunities.

•      Developing technical elements of proposals and architectures that feed into DW solution documents.

•      Build relationships with relevant customer personnel such as infrastructure teams, enterprise architects and Data Warehouse managers.

•      Deliver the PDW/Big Data “Modern Data Warehouse” Level 300 messaging to customers, partners and core sales teams

•      ADS - taking lead and managing DW Architecture Design sessions - and working to keep from having to go to PoC

•      If needed, managing the technical interface between the customer and the MS POC team to ensure POC scope & success criteria are clearly defined and documented and ensuring DW artifacts are provided in a timely manner to the POC team.   Assisting in the execution of the POC if necessary.

•      Supporting the development of partner relationships that feed the Data Warehouse opportunity pipeline.

•      Developing partner enablement and readiness materials to support GTM plans.

•      Migrating customers with competitive solutions onto a Microsoft Data Warehouse Solutions.

Key Attributes for Candidates:

•      Strong sales aptitude with the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of a product or technology.

•      Experience in an environment where customer contacts and knowledge are leveraged to listen proactively for up-sell/cross-sell opportunities.

•      Deep technical skills with the ability to translate the feature/function sets of our products into customer solutions and win against the competition.  

•      Working proactively within assigned opportunities to uncover and qualify new opportunities.

•      Developing strong, strategic partners engaged in immediate and long-term strategic opportunities and committed to Microsoft.

•      Ability to work hand-in-hand with the Core Field SSP/PSS, AM and ATS teams ( ATU/STU - EPG-SMSP, SLG others)

•      Is a resourceful problem-solver, leveraging internal and partner resources in assigned opportunities where and when needed to do what’s right for the customer

Technical Requirements:

Subject Matter Expertise:

•      200 to 300 Level understanding of data warehousing and data management techniques such as data quality, data modeling, master data services, Kimball / Inmon / Data Vault approaches to data warehouse design

•      200 to 300 Level Understanding of the corporate data environment, tools used, both Microsoft (i.e. SSIS, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services) and non-Microsoft (IBM DB2 / DataStage, Informatica, Oracle)

•      Experience with one or more large-scale data warehouse appliance solutions such as Oracle Exadata, DB2, Teradata, Greenplum and Netezza

•      100 to 200 Level knowledge of server and storage architectures and associated concepts such as sequential I/O, HW SW balanced systems design, fiber channel, SAS storage etc.

•      100 to 200 Level knowledge of operating system fundamentals

•      200 to 300 Level knowledge in logical data modeling concepts

Microsoft Products:

•      200 to 300 Level knowledge of SQ Server 2012

•      100 Level knowledge of Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture, PDW or similar competing products and services

•      100 Level knowledge of the Microsoft Systems Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integration Services

•      100 Level knowledge in other Microsoft products, such as Exchange, PowerBI,   Sharepoint, BizTalk, and EAI

Hardware & Infrastructure:

•      100 Level understanding of server technologies such as PCI Express, Memory Architectures, NUMA

•      100 Level understanding of networking and interconnect technologies such as Fiber Channel, Infiniband, Ethernet

•      100 Level knowledge of storage and I/O monitoring and optimization

•      100 Level knowledge of architectures for high-availability and fault tolerance (e.g. clustering)

•      100 Level knowledge of data center operations

Competitor Products:

•      100 Level knowledge of IBM (DB2, DataStage)

•      100 Level knowledge of Oracle (10g / 11g, Exadata)

•      100 Level knowledge of 2 or more of Teradata,Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, IBM DB2 EEE, Vertica

•      100 Level knowledge, at least 1 of Informatica, Ab Initio, DataStage, SAP BODI

Comparable jobs @ Microsoft:

TSPs for SQL Server Platform, MTC Platform Architect, Partner SQL Server/BI/DB, Voice, Identity, HPC, and Windows Azure.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Sr Product Mktg Mgr - Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure, MCS HQ

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Enterprise Services Solutions Marketing

Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure

Worldwide Services is looking for a creative solution marketing professional to develop marketing plans and drive execution for our growing consulting (MCS) business. If you enjoy the challenge of strategic positioning, message and collateral development and landing with global field leaders, sales, delivery and customers, this is a job for you!

Senior Product Marketing Manager

As an individual contributor in Enterprise Services Solutions Marketing, you will define unified customer conversations and messaging, create targeted account plans and execute appropriate campaigns. We are organized by five Priority Areas (Mobility, Productivity, Cloud Platform, Dynamics and Applications) - this role will require depth in at least one of these domains while also working across these solution areas.   External stakeholder inter-dependency places a high emphasis on coordinating with multiple Product Marketing Groups, Enterprise & Partner Group (EPG) and Services Field Leadership to align marketing plans with the company-wide strategy and customer requirements.

In sum, your responsibilities will include:

¨ Priority Area Marketing:   Integrate and simplify cross Priority Area internal and external messaging. Support Priority Area Marketing needs which includes and is not limited to: demand generation programs, lead nurturing activities, account targeting, event support and external and internal evidence development in alignment with Services central marketing team. Displays in-depth solution expertise, and serves as the point of contact or spokesperson to key industry influencers and thought leaders on the topic of key business or solution-line initiatives.

¨ Positioning, Messaging & Storytelling:   Create core content and collateral for the bill of materials (BOM) for multiple solutions. Materials must articulate the solutions value propositions and messaging frameworks and are relevant to and will resonate with customers. Integrated with business groups and Enterprise & Partner Marketing (EPG) on campaigns and align core messaging.

¨ Customer Advocacy:   Create the appropriate vehicles to identify customer buying behaviors and technology trends.   Create innovative approaches to harvest best practices from customer engagements and replicate for new opportunities.  

¨ Marketing Planning: Create marketing execution plans for Services solutions based on understanding of market, strategy, competitive landscape, voice of the customer and economic dynamics.   Monitors existing business metrics and augments strategies that ensure ROI.

¨ Competitive Positioning & Response:   Monitor key competitors to provide insight and input to program management during the solution planning process in order to create competitive differentiation

You will have a passion for marketing solutions to enterprise customers and have a proven track record of working across field marketing and sales organizations. Strong cross group collaboration, impact & influence, interpersonal awareness, analytical and communication skills are required. Must have the ability to demonstrate executive maturity and strong collaboration with senior leadership teams. Successful candidates must also have a strong understanding of the both Microsoft’s Enterprise Products and Field Sales and Services disciplines.  

Qualifications:

¨ 6+ years of marketing or sales experience.

¨ Experience in the development and implementation of marketing programs, campaigns or initiatives is essential.

¨ Deep domain expertise in the complex software solution market. Working knowledge of the competitive landscape and understanding of the partner ecosystem including motivation, capabilities, key differentiators, etc.

¨ Strong communication, data synthesis, presentation, leadership, and comfort interfacing with various technical and business leaders is required

¨ Familiarity with MS Consulting and Support services business and field operations is imperative.

¨ A BA/MS in Marketing and Professional Services or Computer Science or equivalent work experience is preferred. An MBA is a strong plus.

This position will be based in Redmond, WA at Microsoft headquarters, with global travel expected to be approximately 10%.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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PRIN DELIVERY PROJ MGR

**Prefer Candidates that live in US Eastern timezone**

Microsoft’s US Enterprise Services is looking for a Project Manager who demonstrates an advanced mix of skills in project management, technology, and strategic business acumen. The role requires both deep project management experience in a consulting organization, broad technology knowledge, and the ability to facilitate the deployment of solutions by mapping common customer business problems to reusable end-to-end technology solutions. Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level business and technology decision maker discussions related to agility, business value, and end-to-end Microsoft technology projects is required.

Microsoft Project Managers are key enablers for Microsoft consultants and partner staff. They manage the complete lifecycle of large and complex projects and have a passion for customers that is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.

We are specifically looking for Project Managers with extensive experience managing large, global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. This is an exciting time to join a dynamic, growing business! Demonstrated experience in implementing Dynamics AX, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Baan or Lawson ERP packages is required.

The selected candidate will apply solid project management and leadership skills and experience in delivering projects on time, within budget, and with high customer satisfaction. This candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills. The candidate must have experience in managing medium to large size teams on site and remote. Experience managing offshore teams is also preferred. The candidate must demonstrate expertise and proven ability in risk management and mitigation. The candidate must also have experience managing within the PMI methods.

As a Microsoft Project Manager, you will help identify, pursue, and close strategic business development opportunities while continually driving add-on business within existing accounts. To accomplish this, the Microsoft Project Manager must be effective in fostering executive level relationships. The successful candidate will help translate business requirements into technology requirements for inclusion in contracts and/or statements of work (SOW).

The successful candidate will have a BS/BA degree, or equivalent work experience, combined with a minimum of 10 years relevant working experience, including a minimum of 10 years in technology and 5 years managing projects. Previous consulting experience also strongly preferred. PMI’s PMP Certification is preferred. Proficiency in the Microsoft SureStep methodology is preferred. The job will require frequent travel (up to 100% national travel at times) and can be anywhere within the United States.

US Citizenship or valid work visa required.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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SR SOLUTION SALES MGR

Cloud Computing is the next step toward ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Azure is Microsoft’s world-class cloud computing platform used to build, host, and scale web applications and is one of the major strategic thrusts in Microsoft’s Services and Devices Strategy. Azure is an open platform enabling hosting of both Windows and Linux applications and supports numerous languages such as .NET, Java, Node.js, and PHP.

Come join the new ISV focused team on our SMSP National Sales Organization to build and manage our   East and Central Region ISV Azure sales and consumption efforts.   Come be front and center in our customer’s transformation to cloud-based architectures while at the same time playing an influential role in transforming Microsoft to a Devices & Services company.

As East and Central Region ISV Azure Sales Manager -you will be responsible for creating and leading a team toward developing and executing a strong business plan to continue to drive sales and deployment of Azure into a set of targeted accounts.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading and managing sales teams, prospecting, developing new business, building strong customer relationships, driving and closing collaboration and Cloud service based sales while working actively with account teams and partners. The ability to effectively present to a wide range and size of audiences including IT leaders, CxO and senior business decision makers is a must. A demonstrated ability to bring out the best in team members, both Microsoft sales and technical teammates as well as Partners to drive cross solution adoption of Microsoft’s technologies is especially important.

Key Experience needed:

Proven field sales and sales management track record is a must.   This includes extensive direct contact with customers; an ability to draft and implement successful sales plans; qualify, prioritize, and address business opportunities; coach, develop and mentor for technical development and leadership, sales negotiations; experience with customers at an executive level; training, coaching and motivating a sales team, including quota setting.

A demonstrated knowledge of the software industry, specifically experience with Microsoft Azure technologies and AWS is a preference. A track record of implementing large, complex line of business deals within a portfolio of large accounts.   Experience engaging with the ISV community on the sales and implementation of technical solutions is a preference.

Demonstrating the ability to add value to customer relations and provide leadership in driving solutions across the business is critical. Success is measured by overachievement of Sales and Usage/Consumption quota as well as achievement of corporate scorecard commitments including a focus on revenue, Usage/Consumption, customer and employee satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities include:

1) Develop a high-performing team that meets or exceeds Azure quota and Usage/Consumption goals by ensuring delivery of customer-centric, solution focused sales engagements, and extending the sales engagement through teaming well with other Microsoft resources and Partner resources.

2) Manage a healthy Azure pipeline of qualified opportunities: Tasks include the review, analysis, and coordination of team plans to ensure development of sufficient pipeline to meet goals, prioritization of resources, pipeline hygiene excellence, and forecast accuracy.

3) Develop in-depth understanding of the platform and related solutions and the value they bring in solving business problems, as well as relative Microsoft strengths versus the competition to effectively position to the customer against those competitors.

4) Increasing focus on deployment and adoption of Azure and Azure Partner’s offerings across the high potential customer base to help drive customer satisfaction and value realization

Requirements and skills for this position include:

Sales Leadership: Strong, proven track record of leading and driving solution selling across a sales team, focused on business value of technical software solutions to solve customer problems. Track record of success through desired results is a requirement.

Consultative Solution Selling Experience: Demonstrated experience of at least 8 years selling technology solutions to senior business and IT decision makers by reinforcing the value of the technology to the customer’s overall business pain and/or strategic opportunities.

Sales Teamwork Experience: High degree of collaboration with multiple Microsoft sales leadership and personnel, as well as Microsoft Partners will be required for success. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated he/she has worked as part of a collaborative sales organization and delivered great results.

Sales Excellence: Demonstrated strategic business management. Effectively manages sales pipeline (generation and velocity), forecast with predictable results that exceed revenue and Usage/consumption targets, and the ability to formulate a strategy from market indicators and organizational objectives.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.SALES:SMSP

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DIR TECH SALES

The Director - Dynamics Technical Pre-Sales manages a high-performing team of senior Dynamics Pre-Sales resources including Technical Specialists (TS) and Partner Technical Advisors (PTA), who are focused selling Dynamics products (CRM) into US Enterprise and Mid-Market customers. This team is involved in assisting the regional Dynamics sales teams in qualifying, developing and managing Dynamics-related sales opportunities. As a member of the Regional Leadership Team, the Director - Dynamics Technical Pre-Sales plays an integral role in building and enhancing the technical pre-sales infrastructure required to support revenue goals of Dynamics products in the Enterprise and Mid-Market, while ensuring effective partner engagement toward the successful deployment of our products and improving customer satisfaction throughout the sales cycle. At the same time, the Director - Dynamics Technical Pre-Sales will be expected to deepen integration with the broader pre-sales communities within Microsoft.

The Director is responsible for driving bi-directional Operating Model team (OM) alignment and execution of both world-wide and US programs and initiatives. This responsibility covers both “To Customer” and “through Partner” efforts across segments and industries. In addition, this role is critical in driving a “One Microsoft” focus through sales, training, and evangelism integration with the specialist teams within the sales region including but not limited to the EPG STU, SMSP Partner team and the Public Sector CRM team. This person is responsible for identifying key capacity gaps in the Partner channel and will engage his or her resources to address these gaps. This person is responsible for the teams' adherence to stated Commitments as well as supporting and driving attainment of revenue goals for Dynamics products in the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments. In addition, this person will act as the Dynamics regional compete lead interfacing with extended One Microsoft compete teams, working closely with peers across the US for insight and leadership on competitive strategies for common competitive scenarios (key areas of focus Office 365 vs. Google, SharePoint Compete vs. Chatter and SQL compete vs. Oracle)

Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have a BS/MS Computer Science or Business (with a Technical Background) degree or a minimum of eight years relevant working experience. This person will also have a background in selling ERP and/or CRM solutions to customers in the Enterprise or Mid-Market space as well as experience in solution selling methodologies. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of the Dynamics product suite with particular emphasis on CRM, the CRM competitive landscape and the related ISV solutions in market. The chosen candidate should have experience in managing sales oriented technical pre-sales resources and a proven ability to effectively manage remote employees. The chosen candidate will have demonstrable experience in driving and implementing programs through the use of impact and influence skills. Finally, the ideal candidate will have a proven history of working closely with partners to achieve specific sales goals.

The candidate can be located in any major metro area in the Central Region of the United States and require an adequate amount of travel based on the needs of the position.   Domestic travel could easily average 30-50%.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Development Engineer, Principal

Have you ever imagined the world with infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? Everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere in the world at any time via any means (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, PCs, smart devices, etc). Did you ever desire to universally accessible storage system to record the all knowledge known to mankind, to keep all the books/music/videos ever created, or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon? Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality?

If so, Windows Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building Microsoft’s Cloud storage solution - Windows Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world.   We are continuing to have tremendous growth, where we will have several Exabytes of storage within the next year.  

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about distributed storage. To be successful in this area you must thrive dealing with durability, availability, and concurrency, and you should be passionate about storage and the next generation of distributed storage systems. You will be challenged on a daily basis, as you build the largest storage solution Microsoft will offer.

Requirements for the position are:

• Passion for distributed structured storage

• 2+ years of experience building scalable structured distributed storage systems

• 5+ years of experience in developing commercial distributed systems software

• Proficient at C++ and C#, and experience with LINQ/SQL/ADO.net

• Experience with distributed programming models - Experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming

• Excellence in software engineering practices and coding

• Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software

• BS+ in computer science or related fields

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Compliance Service Engineer II

Come join the Microsoft Dynamics Compliance Program and become engaged with the fast moving and expanding world of cloud services.   The Dynamics Compliance Program supports multiple services including Microsoft CRM Online, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing and many other services.   In this role you will be involved in governance, risk and compliance initiatives across the services working with teams on an international level.

You’ll work with subject matter experts (SMEs) from multiple services to help define and deliver on the compliance needs required to operate our Online service. You will also have direct impact on the customer in this role by working to tell the compliance story of our services in sales pursuits. This includes creating and managing internal and external resources to help educate our customers and sellers on our world class compliance stack.   You will be involved in reviewing product and service capabilities to help guide the team in ways to achieve and sustain compliance status with different standards/certifications. The position also has multiple opportunities to work with teams outside of Dynamics and Microsoft, this includes Internal/External auditors, Other Services groups (O365 and Azure) and corporate teams such as OSSC, TWC and LCA.

The Ideal Candidate  

A successful candidate will have strong technology, communication and project management skills that will enable you to work with multiple organizations in completing projects independently.   You will also work with a team of other compliance and security individuals to drive to a common goal of a world class governance, risk and compliance organization for the Dynamics organization.

Excellent communication is paramount for this role. You will be managing both internal and external communications and educating people about what the Dynamics compliance plan offers.   This can include white papers, RFP (request for proposal) guides, keeping communications (web sites and status updates) current and developing PowerPoints to help deliver our message.

You will also work with multiple services and apply your compliance expertise to help teams put in place and maintain appropriate controls in order to meet compliance and security requirements. This includes helping teams identify and remediate gaps and evaluating controls as they apply to the individual services. This will also include managing both internal and external audits to keep our current certifications and accreditations.

Basic Qualifications:

3 + years of Security and/or Compliance Program experience (Internal or External Audit)

A BS/BA in Information Systems, Business or related field or the equivalent experience

Other Qualifications:

Familiarity with security compliance and regulatory frameworks- examples: ISO27001, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, Privacy, FISMA, NIST, CFR 42 (HIPPA) etc.

Strong project management skills for managing multiple concurrent deliverables/audits/certifications

Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate requirements to executives and to control owners

A passion for communicating with end user, Customer, Partner, and Field communities

The ability to work both independently and in a multi-disciplinary team environment

A solid track record of achieving success through teamwork and collaboration, influencing without authority, resolving conflict, and measuring results.

CISA, CISSP and other compliance/security related certifications are a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Development Engineer

Cloud computing is at the center of Microsoft’s push to become a devices and services company. The Cloud Monitoring team designs and builds the software infrastructure that powers hundreds of thousands of servers in datacenters around the world, and provides core infrastructure services that underpin all cloud services at Microsoft, including Azure, Bing, Big Data, and Xbox - just to name a few.

We are looking for enthusiastic developers to work on the Cloud Monitoring system to help advance the state of the art in datacenter monitoring. You will work on core services supporting low-latency monitoring and diagnostic capabilities across large volume data sets. These monitoring capabilities serve as the developers’ primary resource for operating highly available and reliable services. There are challenges around consistency, availability, scalability, reliability, security and performance.

This is a data-driven and fast paced environment - we ship production code weekly - where developers are empowered to innovate and take ideas from conception to hyperscale. It is a great opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft.

Candidates are expected to have the following qualifications:

Fluent in C, C++, C#, or Java programming languages

Passion for software quality. Great problem-solving skills

Experience in systems software development including one or more of the following: highly scalable infrastructure, operating system kernels, distributed systems, database engines, software security

Thorough understanding of computer architecture, memory models, and algorithms design

Great design skills. Proven ability to create componentized, well-architected software at a feature level

Excellent communication skills. Ability and willingness to make people around you better. Demonstrated complete, end-to-end ownership of a feature

3-5 years designing, implementing, and launching commercial software product or web services, ideally through multiple release cycles

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience with distributed systems, system-level programming, multi-threaded programming, online services or open-source development (OSS) is a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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CONSUMER PRODUCT ADVISOR

This Job is eligible for the following work arrangements :Part-Time

Product Advisor, Microsoft Retail    

MICROSOFT RETAIL OVERVIEW

Our Passion Unites Us!

What do Microsoft employees have in common? The answer is passion - passion for life, for creating quality products and services, for great customer experience and for the people who count on us to help them realize their potential.  

In Microsoft Retail, we're looking for high energy people who thrive on delivering the best customer experience possible. Warm and casual, yet knowledgeable and current, we live to delight our customers every time they visit.

JOB SUMMARY

As a Microsoft Retail Product Advisor, you will serve as a friendly and insightful primary point of contact for our customers. Your customer relationship and total solution selling abilities will earn the trust of customers and coworkers alike as you engage, educate, excite, and empower those around you.

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

- Help customers discover, enable, and implement high value Microsoft technology solutions and services across a broad range of devices that meet their individual needs and exceed their expectations

- Flawlessly execute the sales and service strategies of the Microsoft Retail organization

- Present total solution offerings and sales support based upon each customer’s unique needs, both before and after the sale

- Maintain expert level product knowledge in all Microsoft retail products, devices, and services offerings

- Continuously learn through others, self- educate, share specialized knowledge, and expertly demonstrate and present the newest product and service offerings across all devices

- Collaborate with peers, store leaders, corporate, and field team members in the development of the necessary tools and program offerings that will lead to long-term relationships with elated customers

- Must be able to work a regular schedule as required by the needs of the business

- Must be able to move about the store

- Lifting/carrying (loading and unloading all those great products and carrying purchases out for our customers will be required!)  

SKILLS/ABILITIES PREFERRED

- Passion for and usage of Microsoft products and technology

- Superior customer service/people rapport building skills, both 1:1 and in a group environment

- Detail-oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Problem-solving, presentation skills, and multi-tasking ability

- Teaching or training experience

- Prior experience selling technology or other consumer products

- Thrive in a fast paced, dynamic, public facing environment

- Team player and ability to get along with others

- College degree and/or equivalent work experience

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 1 year previous retail sales, hospitality, or high level customer service experience

BENEFITS OF WORKING IN MICROSOFT RETAIL

Microsoft values different life experiences and viewpoints. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach challenges unconventionally. At Microsoft, we believe that diversity enriches our performance and products, the communities where we live and work, and the lives of our employees. Our workforce reflects the growing diversity of our communities and the global marketplace.

In Microsoft Retail, we will invest in your learning and development, while encouraging you to make the most of your Microsoft Retail Career.   So if you have an aptitude for learning and acquiring skills, a passion for people and technology - we want to hear from you!

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior Software Engineer - O365

Office365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud services strategy and is spearheading our company’s transition to deliver enterprise class software as a service. We already host more than 100 million mailboxes on our cloud service and continue to grow at a sustain pace. With the release of Office 365, Microsoft is offering the world’s best messaging and collaboration experience to business and consumers world-wide. Now is your chance to join one of the industry leaders in cloud services as we rapidly approach the next release.

The Engagement team responsibility is to maximize our customers efficacy across Office365 scenarios through continuous analysis and experimentation. The team is pushing software development through the new data first approach.

We are looking for a talented and motivated software engineer with experience in service and server environment. The position offers stimulating combination of self-driven research of various data mining and analysis techniques and coding challenges across many components and scenarios. It includes, but not limited to, improving current or new scenarios, enhancing/creating new tools to further our analysis capabilities, as well as troubleshooting real life customer scenarios in Exchange Datacenter.

Ideal candidates will have:

•      A BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent, 5+ years of experience in software development with C# and .NET

•      Experience with multi-threaded development.

•      Excellent communication, capable of building and maintaining relationships with internal/external teams.

•      Knowledge of large scale data storage, machine learning and efficient data mining are a plus.

•      Knowledge of Services, Windows, SQL and/or protocols such as MAPI are preferred

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Engineer II - Microsoft Studios

Team:

How would you like to make every hit game, movie and app better on Xbox One? That’s not enough for you? When you’re done with that you can help define how all those experiences combine to produce the best console experience in the world. Be loved by your friends, family and get adoration from complete strangers on reddit.

Role and Responsibilities:

The Xbox Experiences Foundation team is a strong and agile team responsible for the core user-experience: global speech commands, multi-tasking interaction, the world’s best 10 foot browser experience, the Xbox One notification system and much much more. We are looking for strongly motivated top tier development talent to help us push the boundaries and exceed expectations with each new release.

Basic Qualifications:

          4+ years of software development experience with demonstrated technical excellence

          Excellent coding skills in C++

          Strong debugging background

          Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

          Great cross-group skills

Nice to have : Experience with   Win RT, COM, XAML and/or Windows or Xbox System development        

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Software Development Engineer, Senior - Microsoft Devices Group - Hardware (894769)

Microsoft Hardware is continuing to revolutionize consumer electronic devices. The team that incubated Kinect and profoundly redefined the way people interact with technology is forming a product development team to change the world again! We are growing team of experienced device product developers, working in a startup environment on redefining experiences with epic technology innovation.

We are developing ground-breaking hardware, software and experiences across computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, image and video processing, networking and graphics. We will transform our ideas into reality through shipping a first-to-market product.

We are looking for Senior Software Development Engineer to join our new firmware & diagnostics engineering team.

A successful candidate will be responsible for writing low level and system level diagnostics, help to bring up new HW and support HW builds. In this position you will be working with teams ranging from hardware, platform and silicon.   Bring up and validation of new HW and tricky multi-disciplinary areas.

Successful candidates will have:

- Experience architecting and developing frameworks and drivers for Windows

- Hardware bring-up and validation experience

- Excellent working knowledge of C# and C/C++

- Excellent cross group collaboration skills

- 6+ years software development experience

Additional Experience Desired:

- Strong understanding of memory qualification and parameters affecting it

- Understanding of various hardware peripherals and how they can impact each other

- Scripting language experience

Education

- BA/BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Director - Business Programs, WW Enterprise and Partner Group

How would you like to run the field planning programs for a $27B business?   Would you like to interact with the Field Leaders on landing the fiscal plans which serve as the foundation to drive the Enterprise revenue, share, and scorecard? Do you like having a broad view of the business?   Are you passionate about integrating strategy into the rhythm of the business? The WW Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG) team is looking for a leader to take the strategy, processes, and tools for Microsoft’s Enterprise planning programs to the next level.

The Strategy, Planning and Operations team is looking for an individual who is a strategic thinker, a strong collaborator, and has impeccable planning and execution skills with a focus on driving results while building relationships.   This role is part of a team responsible for building strategy, and integrating that strategy into the field planning program and processes.  

Key Responsibilities include:

•      Direct virtual teams of business leaders to develop comprehensive strategies and drive alignment in their planning to optimize sales capacity and achieve targeted profitability projections

•      Design process, tool, website for all field planning programs including field alignment

•      Align Quota Setting, Segmentation, Resource Blueprints, Account planning, scorecards, and financial planning to the overall field planning process

•      Provide project management of the program including all facets of program lifecycle from initiation through closure

•      Lead various field meetings and landing summits

•      Manage vendor(s) to update and manage document portfolio and website

•      Train the field and WW teams on field alignment process and subsidiary planning and provide support

•      Ensure operating models and strategies align with the overall EPG strategy

•      Align with other Operating Models on FY Priorities, planning process, WWSMM, timelines, communications, deliverables, and field guidance

•      Lead process and infrastructure for field and WW stakeholders to land key Enterprise priorities and strategies and topics for A13 through Priority Playbooks and WWSMM Landing

•      Negotiate with SMSG Finance and WW BMO on expectations on growth planning deliverables

•      Team with WW EPG stakeholders, including Business Architects, Partner team, Services, Marketing, Finance, and Field Enablement to land planning process output to the Enterprise Marketing and Sales Excellence communities

Requirements:

•      10 plus years in a technology oriented organization with experience across multiple disciplines

•      5 plus years driving high performing teams to design, build, test, support, and continuously improve programs

•      Proven effectiveness of planning programs, driving programs to desired results, and managing risk

•      Proven Project/Program Management Leadership including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, communications, procurement, human resources, and integration management

•      Process oriented to provide predictable outcomes

•      Passionate about Planning and Operational Excellence

•      Field Planning and Operations experience is desired

•      MBA and Six Sigma or Quality Management desired

Discipline Competencies Required:

•      Strategic insight

•      Customer Focus - closed loop process

•      Process Management

•      Strong customer orientation

Leadership Competencies Required:

•      Impact & Influence

•      Executive Maturity

•      Building Organizational Capability

•      Cross Boundary Collaboration

•      One Microsoft

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Technical Data Analyst - Consumer Data & Analysis - 895327

Many businesses are data driven, but perhaps none so much as Microsoft.   A great deal of effort is spent on using masses of data to understand user behaviors to inform and improve upon Microsoft’s products and marketing efforts.

We are the Consumer Data and Analytics team focused on advanced data mining and data capabilities impacting Microsoft’s consumer product and marketing efforts. We are looking for an experienced Technical Data Analyst who is passionate to work with and analyze big data to drive insights across complex business questions. We have petabytes of data being collected and we convert data into insights, and drive enhanced customer experience and improved business performance by enabling data-driven decisions.  

Job Description:

The ideal candidate should be self-directed, passionate about data, and focused on delivering the right results. The candidate should be able to apply programming acumen and a breadth of tools, data sources and analytical techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and present the insights in a concise and effective manner. Technical aptitude and programming skills are necessary in this role. The candidate should also be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to both technical and non-technical audiences. The role requires incubating, developing, testing and iteratively improving on BI capabilities to understand the product(s) in depth so as to provide key insights to shape product and marketing actions, thereby improving customer experience and usage of the product(s).

Core Responsibilities:

  Build a holistic understanding of our product features, its customer, the BI data infrastructure & environment, and business goals

  Develop powerful visualization on customer behavior and usage and become SMEs for the product(s)

  Analyze and validate data using statistical tools to answer product and business questions, to drive product and marketing actions

  Build and maintain Learning Plans for the product(s) with key analytical questions to address and investigations on data quality

  Interface with business users and engineering teams to bridge the gap in terms of data needs and business term/logic understanding  

  Leverage industry best practices in establishing repeatable BI practices, principles & processes

  Leverage team members across BI, for data & analysis needs

  Refine, improve and centralize team capabilities and share to the broader business and analytical community

  Manage external vendor relationships onshore & offshore, as needed

Key Skills, Competencies, Qualifications:

  Unique mix of technical, development, project and program management skills

  Ability to understand, translate and map business and product questions into analyses projects

  Expertise in database technology with solid understanding SQL Server, solid understanding of SSIS, solid understanding of SSAS / n-dimensional cubes

  Experience in analyzing big data using statistical tools such as SQL, C# and statistics

  Experience with unstructured datasets (Hadoop and/or Cosmos)

  Solid experience building business intelligence solutions (data warehouse, datamart, ETL, Reports, Powerpivots) and ability to understand instrumentation and devise technical solutions

  Proficiency in advanced Excel functions (e.g., creating formulas, pivot tables) and PowerBI

  Knowledge of SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Adobe Insights or similar analytic software

  Strong business acumen

  Excellent collaborative skills, consultative and customer-facing skills, strong client services orientation

  Ability to influence diverse audiences and build strong partnerships with stakeholders

  Strong ability to articulate vision, requirements & benefits, providing a solid rationale to multiple business and technical partners

  Self-motivated, agile and driven to think out-of-the-box on key

5-8+ years relevant experience; College degree required, MSc/MA/MBA preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

MBD&E ANMAREQ 895327

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Data Scientist, Senior - Office - 895421

Join the excitement of being a part of one of the fastest growing services at Microsoft - Office 365! Do you want to use your data analysis and business strategy skills to derive insights about millions of users across the world and drive the innovation in marketing? Do you want to have an impact on the future of MS Office, a product loved and used by hundreds of millions of users around the world? If you excel quantitative analysis and want to influence the future of consumer marketing at Microsoft, then this position is for you.

We are a fast paced, fun Analytics team in the Office Marketing division driving the data-driven culture. We measure end to end business health of the business by defining and managing key business performance metrics. We develop and provide key customer insights and inform the business strategy and business model evolution. This is a highly visible role leading the transforming the organization’s pace to move forward through key insights about our business health and customer insights. In this role, you will define metrics touching various aspect of customer lifecycle. You will provide value by driving key business decisions for multiple stakeholders as well as a thought leader in building a data-driven culture.

The position will be responsible for devising analysis, reporting, and system capability solutions, and providing decision makers with actionable business intelligence. We are looking for an applied analyst who is passionate about data and deriving insights that drive our acquisition, utilization and retention programs. Someone who is driven, self-directed, entrepreneurial and focused on delivering the right results through data and applying. To be successful in this role, you must have strong skills in written and oral communications, a can-do attitude and the willingness to tackle hard problems in innovative ways.

Key Responsibilities

-Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques

--Deliver on ambiguous projects with multiple stakeholders

-Present findings and recommendations to key decision makers at various management levels

Requirements

  3+ years of industry experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.

  Prior experience in BI, reporting, business analysis, and project management.

  Advanced Modeling and Excel skills and high proficiency in SQL

  Some knowledge of Statistics and statistical analysis tools like SAS, R, SPSS

  Manipulate large volumes of data, create new and improved techniques and/or solutions for data collection, management, and usage

  High attention to detail, action oriented, ability to work within stringent deadlines

  Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner

  Attention to detail and data accuracy

  Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation communication skills.

  Customer focus and curiosity

  Prior experience in subscription services, telecom, financial services desired

Qualifications

• Masters or Ph.D. in Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Statistics, or Operations Research from a reputed institution

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

MBD&E THLAREQ   895421

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Service Engineer 2 - GFS 895420

Global Foundation Services is the team behind the cloud. GFS is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.

?Global Network Services team within Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise Division is looking for a network security engineer with strong experience in developing and delivering network solutions for large-scale datacenter driven IP networks. The ideal candidate needs to have in-depth knowledge of IP routing, firewalls, intrusion prevention, DDoS, as well as significant systems experience. In addition, the candidate will have strong demonstrable experience in programming or scripting languages. Must be flexible, and be able to work on multiple projects with different priorities while maintaining a team attitude. You will be able to leverage your strong programming skills to automate tasks, and simplify operational tasks.

Roles & Responsibilities

This role will be key in increasing the team’s capacity to deliver project work and in providing better after-hours support for security services.

Success is demonstrated in this role by:

Gaining a deep understanding of the security solutions the team manages

Troubleshooting service issues quickly and efficiently to root cause

Communicating effectively with the team and customers

Owning the service while making and implementing recommendations for improvement.

Develop automation software to integrate with existing systems and enhance existing functionality to scale our multi-vendor production network

Build software infrastructure for network monitoring and analysis, aid in capacity planning and network security change analysis

Skills & Qualifications

?The successful candidate must be capable of designing and deploying security solutions with little to no assistance. Also must be able to clearly document designs and processes.

Person must have a solid foundation in designing, managing and supporting network security solutions (firewalls, IDS/IPS, anti-DDoS, Authentication services).

Ability to design, deploy, configure, manage, and troubleshoot security technologies (firewalls, IPS, Anti-DDoS, and AAA services)

Ability to build automated solutions for various tasks leveraging variable inputs.

Understanding of network technologies, architectures and devices.

Experience Required

?Expert-level knowledge and experience in the network security field and ability to design and troubleshoot network security solutions.

Experience in developing security hardening procedures, security best practices, and policy implementation

Familiar with debugging large-scale systems

Experience with data analysis skills and statistical tools

BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Management Information Systems, or other technical field prefferred.

Basic Required Qualifications

?Minimum 5 years of experience of performing Information Security related duties

Analytical minded

Process minded

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Self Starter with ability to work with little direction

Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

Criminal Justice Information Services:   This position may require passing a background check conducted through the CJIS criminal justice information system by authorized local, state, and/or federal agencies.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Public Trust Position: This position may require passing a United States Public Trust Position (PTP) background investigation to meet federal, state and/or local government requirements.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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SR DATA SCIENTIST

Data is our next big engineering challenge. Our team is working to meet this challenge across OSG.   We are looking for Data Scientists to help us build the data asset that will be used to improve our products and benefits our partners and customers and build this organizational capability.

We are looking for Data Scientists with the skills to help us to Collect Data from our devices, clients, and services in a trustworthy way, Process the Data via a world class data pipelines turning raw data in to analysis-ready materials, and Analyze the Data through analytical rigor and statistical method with tools and applications to develop models and uncover deep insights and enable engineering teams to utilize the data effectively, develop insights, and turn the data into value for our customers.

In this role our Data Scientists will build our Data Assets into the competitive advantage they can be.   Working from the Hub Data Science team they will mentor the Spoke Data teams around flighting, collection, analysis, and utilizing our Data Assets.   A successful candidate should be able to identify new and interesting internal and external data sources and signals, gather the   data from these disparate sources with tools like Hadoop & HDInisght, work with our Services teams to process the data to the point that it can be analyzed.   Candidates should have experience analyzing big data with statistical rigor using R, MATLAB, SAS, or similar statistical modeling tools to build models to find interesting new insights to drive business outcomes.   Skills in C#, Python, Perl, or other scripting/programming language to help tie all of this together are important. Candidate should also have skills with SQL Server and SQL tools to build out cubes and data marts and enable additional self-serve analysis across Data Assets.   In addition to this we are looking for Data Scientists with strong creative visualization skills to help build out reports to be consumed by Engineers and Managers.  

Candidates should also have strong interpersonal and communications skills, great conceptual, analytical and problem solving abilities, ability to clearly communicating requirements, interest in working on hard ambiguous problems in a fast paced environment.

Technical Requirements:

  Experience with Large Scale Data "Big Data"

  Experience with   Azure, HDInsight, & Excel

  Experience with Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Signal Processing

  Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field

  At least 4 years (recent) analysis/programming experience in a production environment

  3-5+ years of experience working with big data & analytics

  Experience with Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS

  Proficiency in at least one language/scripting languages, such as C#, Python, PowerShell, or Perl

  Strong Mathematical background w emphasis in statistics

  Database experience (SQL), SSAS, SQLPower Pivot

  Experience with Hadoop, Map/Reduce runtimes.

  Data Visualization expertise

  Experience with Cosmos, Scope

  Understanding of how ETW, Watson, and SQM work

  Experience with WLI, Metron, or Telreports a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Enterprise Mobility Black Belt - Incubation Sales Team

Enterprise Mobility Black Belt

Are you excited about an opportunity to build and accelerate one of the newest businesses in Microsoft? Are you a strong Technology Specialist with expertise in Enterprise Mobility solutions with a passion for delighting customers and partners? Are you interested in leading the commercial sales effort to bring Microsoft’s latest Enterprise Mobility cloud service to market?   Are you a strong technical sales leader, interested in building a business working with customers, partners and across EPG and SMS&P?   If so, then the Incubation Sales Team is the right place for you!

As Microsoft continues to develop its leadership position in cloud services, Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Cloud Services are unique because it’s an end-to-end Microsoft solution that brings together Windows cloud services for device management, endpoint protection, Identity and Virtualization.   By combining the leading on premise management solution in the world with powerful, cost-effective Windows cloud services for PC and device management and security, this is an opportunity to lead a change in the device market place that will impact millions of customers worldwide.   As an Incubation TSP for our Enterprise Mobility business, you will be responsible for supporting the technical aspects of achieving Microsoft’s business metrics (New Enterprise Mobility Workload Beachhead Wins wins) for this solution by providing strong technical sales leadership, overcoming technical sales objections, supporting partner sales execution and engaging with key stakeholders across EPG and SMS&P.  

Our WW Incubation Sales organization is one of Microsoft’s growth engines that deliver leading-edge solutions that drive our customers businesses forward. Incubation Sales is a part of WW Specialist Sales in the WW EPG sales organization (Enterprise and Partner Group), and we aim to improve “time to scale” for our businesses. We are responsible for building the next billion dollar businesses for Microsoft. We take new acquisitions and new products & services (and often new business models), and we have a worldwide dedicated sales team in 3 time zones who take these products from inception or acquisition to broad field sales integration. WW Incubation currently drives revenue, deployment, design wins and unit business results for the following businesses: Microsoft Azure Platform, Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), LSX (Large Screen Experience), StoreSimple, Enterprise Mobility Suite and Internet Of Things.  

This position will be based in the Mid Atlantic or Greater Southeast districts (PA, GA, DC, VA, FL, NC, SC, DE, FL) reporting to Kristie Atwood.

Responsibilities include:

•      Drive the Enterprise Mobility business metrics through excellence in technical sales strategy and execution.

•      Develop new Enterprise Mobility solution workloads and capability.

•      For large and complex opportunities, provide deep technical SME support for Core Field Sellers.

•      Develop a deep technical understanding of our competitor Enterprise Mobility solutions, become the compete SME.

•      Contribute to the monthly Rhythm of the Business focusing on effectively achieving the Beachhead Win, metric, compete wins, reference wins, and necessary course correction actions in the business.  

This is a unique opportunity for a top performer seeking a high impact, high visibility timezone technical specialist position from which to influence the future course of Microsoft. To be successful in this key role, we expect great technical leadership skills, Enterprise technical sales experience, strong passion for driving a business, great communication and consultative selling skills, outstanding collaboration and analytical skills, sincere customer focus, and to be able to deal well with constant change. Successful candidates will have demonstrated success in the Microsoft competencies of Drive for Results, Cross Group Collaboration, Strategic Thinking & Leadership, Decision Making and Dealing with Ambiguity. You must be highly motivated, highly organized and a self-starter.

Ideally, the successful candidate will have:

•      8+ years of related technical sales experience

•      Strong understanding around the Enterprise sales motion  

•      Experience in the Enterprise Mobility space highly-desired, specifically in the context of the Device Management environment or Identity.

•      Passion for sales and understanding of the specialist sales model and through and with partner selling, motivating and enabling the partner pre-sales and technical competency.

•      Strong communication skills with the ability to work and lead through influence in a cross-group environment.

•      Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

•      Effective written and verbal communication skills to work with both internal and external audiences as a spokesperson and advocate.

•      The candidate should be willing to travel 35% of his/her time to conduct customer and partner visits.  

We do value diversity in WW Incubation Sales.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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SR DATA SCIENTIST

Data is our next big engineering challenge. Our team is working to meet this challenge across OSG.   We are looking for Data Scientists to help us build the data asset that will be used to improve our products and benefits our partners and customers and build this organizational capability.

We are looking for Data Scientists with the skills to help us to Collect Data from our devices, clients, and services in a trustworthy way, Process the Data via a world class data pipelines turning raw data in to analysis-ready materials, and Analyze the Data through analytical rigor and statistical method with tools and applications to develop models and uncover deep insights and enable engineering teams to utilize the data effectively, develop insights, and turn the data into value for our customers.

In this role our Data Scientists will build our Data Assets into the competitive advantage they can be.   Working from the Hub Data Science team they will mentor the Spoke Data teams around flighting, collection, analysis, and utilizing our Data Assets.   A successful candidate should be able to identify new and interesting internal and external data sources and signals, gather the   data from these disparate sources with tools like Hadoop & HDInisght, work with our Services teams to process the data to the point that it can be analyzed.   Candidates should have experience analyzing big data with statistical rigor using R, MATLAB, SAS, or similar statistical modeling tools to build models to find interesting new insights to drive business outcomes.   Skills in C#, Python, Perl, or other scripting/programming language to help tie all of this together are important. Candidate should also have skills with SQL Server and SQL tools to build out cubes and data marts and enable additional self-serve analysis across Data Assets.   In addition to this we are looking for Data Scientists with strong creative visualization skills to help build out reports to be consumed by Engineers and Managers.  

Candidates should also have strong interpersonal and communications skills, great conceptual, analytical and problem solving abilities, ability to clearly communicating requirements, interest in working on hard ambiguous problems in a fast paced environment.

Technical Requirements:

  Experience with Large Scale Data "Big Data"

  Experience with   Azure, HDInsight, & Excel

  Experience with Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Signal Processing

  Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field

  At least 4 years (recent) analysis/programming experience in a production environment

  3-5+ years of experience working with big data & analytics

  Experience with Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS

  Proficiency in at least one language/scripting languages, such as C#, Python, PowerShell, or Perl

  Strong Mathematical background w emphasis in statistics

  Database experience (SQL), SSAS, SQLPower Pivot

  Experience with Hadoop, Map/Reduce runtimes.

  Data Visualization expertise

  Experience with Cosmos, Scope

  Understanding of how ETW, Watson, and SQM work

  Experience with WLI, Metron, or Telreports a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior Marketing Manager A&O

Microsoft Advertising – Bing Ads

SMB Global Marketing Communications Manager

Location: Seattle

Make Microsoft Bing Advertising part of your career story!

Are you an experienced marketing communications manager with an interest in search advertising and online marketing? Would you like to impact the small-to-mid-market customer experience, and enable Microsoft to reach billions in global advertising revenue with the Yahoo! Bing Network?  

The Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) Marketing team in Bing is seeking a global marketing communications manager with strong experience partnering with engineering and/or product groups to support GTM activities for Bing Ads and Yahoo! Bing Network with the SMB segment. The Global Marketing Communications Manager is responsible for developing and executing on the strategy for driving awareness and adoption Bing Ads features. The position will be responsible for GTM activities for new and existing products and features. Planning and executing internal comms to enable Sales, Service and Support teams and marketing channel owners to sell product enhancements to Bing Ads customers. The position will serve as the strategy and execution lead for internal and external communications to drive product awareness and adoption. Examples of deliverables will include – product adoption driving campaigns, service campaigns, sales collateral, one sheets, customer comms, slides, FAQs.

Key Responsibilities:

•      Overseeing global SMB Marketing Communication   to support GTM activities for Bing Ads product updates.

o      Product update and feature release communications for a product on continuous release cadence.

o      Be an expert on Bing Ads and competitive products and also on Bing Ads customer profiles to be able to map features to different customer segments.

o      Create materials such as GTM Newsletter, presentation in team meetings, time zone calls to keep rest of marketing and other partners informed on product updates to enable them to leverage their channels for Bing Ads update promotion.

o      Develop the strategy for global awareness and adoption of new features and work with rest of the global and regional SMB marketing, BG Marketing, Sales and Support partners to execute on that strategy.

o      Partnership and coordination with engineering to get an understanding of product upgrade.

o      Partnership and coordination with BG Marketing for value prop and messaging for each product update

o      Partnership and coordination with BG Channel team on product priorities and adoption goals.

o      Participation in Sales and Service team meetings and All Hands

o      Participation in forums and v-teams that influence product quality and drive feature asks to engineering.

•      Launching feature pilots and driving feature adoption:

o      Coordination with engineering, BG, sales and support to launch pilots of key features. Includes developing pilot invitation communications such as emails, collaterals like one sheets, slides and FAQs to get customer participation and feedback on new features before those launch broadly to all customers.

o      Develop strategy and execution to drive adoption of priority features. Channels may include – webinar, emails, social, web, events, sales team.

o      Partnership with regional marketing managers to provide GTM resources for all markets.

Requirements:

•      Minimum 6 years of experience with search marketing or online advertising (8+ preferred)

•      BA/BS degree from an accredited college/university

•      Minimum 3 years of Product Marketing and GTM experience required

•      Strong analytical and insights development skills

•      Ability to adapt quickly and manage changing and tight deadlines

•      Experience strategizing, planning and implementing integrated marketing communications programs

•      Strong project management skills across global teams

•      Ability to drive results through multiple cross-group layers

•      Strong reading/writing/speaking skills in English

•      Vendor/agency and budget management experience

•      Experience in working with localization vendors a plus

This job description details the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Director Solution Specialist Azure

• Understanding customer’s business model and profit drivers and demonstrated ability to map platform capabilities to priority business objectives.

• High-level system and application design; Cloud Solutions Architecture.

Trusted Advisor:

• Works effectively with all levels in the customer organization helping them understand and solve their business problems.

• Becomes the “go to” person the customer seeks out when new business problems must be solved.

• Is welcomed by top customer management to discuss new ideas and approaches.

• Acts as a mentor for less experienced Azure Solution Specialists.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Group Finance Manager

The Group Finance Manager is part of the Operating Systems (OS) Strategic Analytics team that serves as a center of excellence for all insights and analytics related to the health of the Windows business. This person will lead a team of 3 talented finance managers, with the primary focus of enhancing insights into our business performance. The ideal candidate will combine great people management with a high degree of business acumen and technical financial analysis skills.

•      Drive best-in-class insights on Windows and Windows Phone activations and retail performance to measure health of the business

•      Maintain regular cadence of reporting and analysis of business performance

–      Weekly activation flash (Windows & Windows Phone) to senior management

–      Retail dashboards to measure competitive performance and highlight risks and opportunities

–      Monthly update of the OS components of the Board Of Directors scorecard

•      Start bi-weekly ad-hoc deep dive analysis on topics of current interest

•      Partner with peer finance teams on the monthly business insight review with CFO and the OS Leadership Team scorecard reviews

•      Partner with the business excellence team to simplify information flow and enable self-serve reporting on key sources of data

•      Lead the development of   dashboards, KPIs and metrics to track performance and impact of pricing decisions

•      Develop and regularly monitor the device landscape across form factor (PC, phone, tablet) and hardware specifications using internal and external data to understand impact of pricing decisions

•      Track progress across OS investments in device categories and highlight market trends

•      Partner with the device market intelligence team and OS engineering to develop a common view of the Windows and Internet Explorer installed base/share across form factor and OS version

•      Partner with engineering to develop a monthly dashboard of Windows installed base by OS version, form factor and geography

•      Drive the long-range installed base forecast to serve as input into key business decisions

•      Develop a rhythm to analyze and monitor OS platform adoption towards stated goals

•      Track progress of Internet Explorer share by OS version as well as IE fragmentation

•      Partner with peer finance teams and OS engineering and marketing   teams to develop a joint view of monetization on the Windows platform

•      Partner with engineering to understand and track user behavior/monetization on Windows SKUs

•      Develop a rhythm of business with peer finance teams to track monetization progress of first party apps and services on Windows

•      Ensure development and satisfaction of team by providing challenging and meaningful development opportunities

•      Responsibility for coaching and developing the team and succession planning

•      Ensuring continuity in areas of success on MS Poll and improvement in areas of development

Qualifications:

•      7-10+ years of increasing responsibility in financial analysis roles

•      High level of business acumen and ability to spot trends and garner key insights from high volumes of data

•      Strong attention to detail

•      Strong business partnering skills, needs ability to influence without authority

•      Very strong technical finance skills (Excel mastery is expected; experience working with PowerPivot, macros, SQL a strong plus)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Account Manager

Mobile Search Account Manager

Make Global Search and Display Services at Microsoft Advertising part of your career story!

Microsoft Bing Advertising is the destination for experienced, collaborative, and passionate digital advertising professionals seeking a rewarding career and lifestyle. We offer a compelling portfolio of advertising products, innovative solutions and the opportunity to engage with some of the brightest minds in the digital industry.

The Bing Ads Mobile search team is responsible for assisting premium direct and agency clients to reach their maximum revenue and performance potential through their Mobile search campaigns with Bing Ads. We are looking for a top performing Account Manager, with search advertising experience who will work within an account team to understand and meet our client’s needs, drive mobile adoption and implementation.   If you are looking for an opportunity to impact premium search clients by helping them reach their full potential with Bing Ads Mobile and improve our internal tools and processes, this job could be for you!

Responsibilities:

As a Mobile Bing Account Manager, you will work within a Mobile Account team to drive mobile adoption, provide and present customized proposals based on client goals and conversion metrics (KPIs), ensure timely implementation, provide post implementation reporting, support and track progress. The goal is to set clients up for success from a mobile education, performance and revenue perspective and drive advertiser satisfaction and mobile search revenue.

To be successful in this role you must have a can-do attitude, work well within a team, have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, detail oriented and consider yourself adaptable. You will need to be able to effectively navigate numerous tools, teams, environments, and personalities on a daily basis. Must be able to excel in servicing to customers and partners via email, phone and in-person meetings.

Qualifications:

•      Minimum 2 years of experience in fast paced client service, online digital media, and either paid search or display advertising campaigns required (3+ years of experience preferred)

•      Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required

•      4 plus years technology or online advertising industry experience preferred

•      2 plus years of experience working with Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and/or other relevant search engine toolsets on pay-for-performance search products preferred

•      Proven ability to understand customer needs, create and build ongoing relationships, and deliver customized, customer-focused pitches and solutions

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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