Job: Solution Specialist - Worldwide Data Center Compete Team (CATM)

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Date: Sep 29, 2013

Location: Dallas, TX, US

Job Category: Sales
Location: Dallas, TX, US
Job ID: 852810-124102
Division: Sales

Are you an expert seller in Private Cloud and Data Center? Do you know how to drive wins with our Data Center solutions, like Windows Server and System Center, against our key competitors such as VMware and Amazon Web Services? The Worldwide Data Center Compete Team (CATM) is hiring a world-class Data Center seller to compete and drive wins in the most difficult competitive, Data Center compete scenarios with our field account teams. This person will help to drive conversions of competitive products to the Microsoft Private Cloud stack with key customers.
As part of an elite sales compete team, the successful candidate will be responsible for 3 key outcomes: 1) driving wins with the Microsoft Private Cloud stack, through the migration of existing competitive systems; 2) deliver knowledge on the broad competitive landscape and also deep, sales insight to our field sellers to help them grow skills and win more competitive deals; and 3) deliver the insights from these engagements to the broader field community and also to the product teams to drive the changes needed to keep Microsoft competitive.
A member of the WW STU team, Enterprise Data Center Compete consists of a dedicated team of competitive, solutions sales specialists who help our specialist sales teams win competitive opportunities. Your audience to support and influence will include DC SSPs and TSPs, ATU & STU teams, EPG leads, and BG leads worldwide. Success will be measured on DC quota attainment and the ability to drive deep competitive insights and wins across the entire organization. This teams is tasked with tackling the hardest, most competitive sales scenarios, to pave the way for the general DC selling community in the future.
The defined purpose of the SSP - Enterprise Compete role is to drive competitive sales opportunities to win, through 3 primary modes: 1) proactively engage with field sellers in order to drive positive sales outcomes in highly competitive opportunities; 2) engage with field sellers to build competitive sales capability; and 3) continuously learn, apply and share deep technical and sales compete insights across our field sales teams to increase our ability to win across priority sales initiatives.
This position is accountable for a defined numer of competitive sales wins and depth engagement wins. A key initiative this role will own is developing and driving new proactive competitive sales initiatives to enable stronger field competitive sales and technical capabilities with our DC SSPs and TSPs. Additionally, the successful candidate will enable better sales results from turning engagements into competitive information… information into insight… and insight into action that can become a part of our competitive sales motion. Key challenges will be adapting to the dynamic nature of Microsoft's competitors and scaling impact quickly through effective enablement of all worldwide specialist sellers.
The successful Enterprise Data Center Compete candidate will also require the following skills to be successful:
1. Effective time management of proactive opportunities and client engagement balanced with the need to respond to high-visibility competitive escalations received through the CompHot tool.
2. The ability to effectively synthesize competitive and technical insights that can be broadly shared to raise compete competencies across Microsoft field sellers.
3. The ability to provide competitive and technical input to our Cloud OS and Private Cloud sales strategy based on insights gained from industry experiences, sales field interaction and competitive customer engagements.
4. Ability to follow defined procedures for reactive, escalation-based competitive engagements that require timely response to urgent field needs.
5. Ability to synthesize competitive information into insights and actionable recommendations to help the field more effectively compete and win.
6. Manage documentation to help scale device compete learnings, competitive insights, identification and resolution of sales blockers, and delivery of compete opportunity pipeline reports.
7. Ability to proactively identify and engage with Business and Technical decision makers across Microsoft Customers and Partners for the purpose of selling Microsoft solutions.
Successful candidates will have:
• Great solution selling skills in the Enterprise and the ability to speak credibly with both Business and IT Executives explaining how Microsoft Solutions solve business challenges in a differentiated manner. You can anticipate customer needs and proactively exceed customer expectations.
• Deep understanding of experience in Hyper-V or VMware, Cloud (Private / Public / Hybrid) and Microsoft Private Cloud stack solutions (from both a business perspective as well as a technical perspective) with deep competitive insight into the top competitors in the market as VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Outstanding collaboration skills and the ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholder levels with customers, field sales teams and Corp stakeholders.
• Experience prioritizing their time and workload to ensure desired objectives are reached while working well with ambiguity.
• Tenacity and self-starter attitude that drives for results and relentlessly pursues positive outcomes.
• Candidates for this role will have 7+ years of Enterprise Technical Sales experience driving wins with Data Center solutions.
• BA or equivalent required; MBA/MS preferred. This position will require approximately 70% U.S. based travel.

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Date: Sep 29, 2013

Location: Atlanta, GA, US

Job Category: Sales
Location: Atlanta, GA, US
Job ID: 852810-124100
Division: Sales

Are you an expert seller in Private Cloud and Data Center? Do you know how to drive wins with our Data Center solutions, like Windows Server and System Center, against our key competitors such as VMware and Amazon Web Services? The Worldwide Data Center Compete Team (CATM) is hiring a world-class Data Center seller to compete and drive wins in the most difficult competitive, Data Center compete scenarios with our field account teams. This person will help to drive conversions of competitive products to the Microsoft Private Cloud stack with key customers.
As part of an elite sales compete team, the successful candidate will be responsible for 3 key outcomes: 1) driving wins with the Microsoft Private Cloud stack, through the migration of existing competitive systems; 2) deliver knowledge on the broad competitive landscape and also deep, sales insight to our field sellers to help them grow skills and win more competitive deals; and 3) deliver the insights from these engagements to the broader field community and also to the product teams to drive the changes needed to keep Microsoft competitive.
A member of the WW STU team, Enterprise Data Center Compete consists of a dedicated team of competitive, solutions sales specialists who help our specialist sales teams win competitive opportunities. Your audience to support and influence will include DC SSPs and TSPs, ATU & STU teams, EPG leads, and BG leads worldwide. Success will be measured on DC quota attainment and the ability to drive deep competitive insights and wins across the entire organization. This teams is tasked with tackling the hardest, most competitive sales scenarios, to pave the way for the general DC selling community in the future.
The defined purpose of the SSP - Enterprise Compete role is to drive competitive sales opportunities to win, through 3 primary modes: 1) proactively engage with field sellers in order to drive positive sales outcomes in highly competitive opportunities; 2) engage with field sellers to build competitive sales capability; and 3) continuously learn, apply and share deep technical and sales compete insights across our field sales teams to increase our ability to win across priority sales initiatives.
This position is accountable for a defined numer of competitive sales wins and depth engagement wins. A key initiative this role will own is developing and driving new proactive competitive sales initiatives to enable stronger field competitive sales and technical capabilities with our DC SSPs and TSPs. Additionally, the successful candidate will enable better sales results from turning engagements into competitive information… information into insight… and insight into action that can become a part of our competitive sales motion. Key challenges will be adapting to the dynamic nature of Microsoft's competitors and scaling impact quickly through effective enablement of all worldwide specialist sellers.
The successful Enterprise Data Center Compete candidate will also require the following skills to be successful:
1. Effective time management of proactive opportunities and client engagement balanced with the need to respond to high-visibility competitive escalations received through the CompHot tool.
2. The ability to effectively synthesize competitive and technical insights that can be broadly shared to raise compete competencies across Microsoft field sellers.
3. The ability to provide competitive and technical input to our Cloud OS and Private Cloud sales strategy based on insights gained from industry experiences, sales field interaction and competitive customer engagements.
4. Ability to follow defined procedures for reactive, escalation-based competitive engagements that require timely response to urgent field needs.
5. Ability to synthesize competitive information into insights and actionable recommendations to help the field more effectively compete and win.
6. Manage documentation to help scale device compete learnings, competitive insights, identification and resolution of sales blockers, and delivery of compete opportunity pipeline reports.
7. Ability to proactively identify and engage with Business and Technical decision makers across Microsoft Customers and Partners for the purpose of selling Microsoft solutions.
Successful candidates will have:
• Great solution selling skills in the Enterprise and the ability to speak credibly with both Business and IT Executives explaining how Microsoft Solutions solve business challenges in a differentiated manner. You can anticipate customer needs and proactively exceed customer expectations.
• Deep understanding of experience in Hyper-V or VMware, Cloud (Private / Public / Hybrid) and Microsoft Private Cloud stack solutions (from both a business perspective as well as a technical perspective) with deep competitive insight into the top competitors in the market as VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Outstanding collaboration skills and the ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholder levels with customers, field sales teams and Corp stakeholders.
• Experience prioritizing their time and workload to ensure desired objectives are reached while working well with ambiguity.
• Tenacity and self-starter attitude that drives for results and relentlessly pursues positive outcomes.
• Candidates for this role will have 7+ years of Enterprise Technical Sales experience driving wins with Data Center solutions.
• BA or equivalent required; MBA/MS preferred. This position will require approximately 70% U.S. based travel.

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Job: Senior Software Test Engineer (SDET)

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Job Category: Technical Service and IT
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 850909-122965
Division: IT

Description
Microsoft IT is for those IT professionals and business technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using all of Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft IT provides career growth opportunities and a rewarding and flexible work environment so you can better integrate professional and personal life. Unlike other IT organizations, Microsoft IT employees make global impact on thousands of customers and thousands of employees who use Microsoft software and services.

Do you have passion for driving quality and delivering strategic solutions to customers? Do you want to work at the epicenter of where devices and services become booked revenue? The Enterprise Commerce IT (ECIT) team has a great opportunity to help you reach your full potential. We are looking for a motivated and results-driven Senior Test leader to drive the quality for various mission critical applications that supports Microsoft’s $46B+ volume licensing business.

ECIT’s mission is the delivery of millions of transactions and one great experience for the volume licensing areas of Microsoft. We develop and support many of the Microsoft web and back-end applications that support Volume License contract management, benefits, pricing, order acceptance and fulfillment. To do this effectively we must design, engineer and test high-ROI applications to enable efficient execution of Microsoft programs.

Responsibilities:
Work closely with Test Leadership team to define Test strategy and roadmap for ECIT.
Lead the Test effort for IT application releases.
Improve efficiency in testing and driving overall cost down.
Bring innovative approaches to the project functional areas that continuously improve our ability to deliver faster and better solutions.
Evaluation and inspection of business requirements and functional specifications, designs and developing quality engineering strategy and plans, test cases and automation code.
Help define and implement the QA and test strategies, standards and metrics, and day-today excellence to effectively service the Microsoft Online production teams.
Work closely with the development, program managers and partners through the SDLC to deliver high quality, high performance solutions.
Partner with Integration and dependent teams and other organizations to evaluate and leverage appropriate technologies to improve overall quality of the program.
Verify that Quality criteria are met in every milestone and that every project releases consistently.
Be a leader of customer advocacy and help elevate the end-user experience for our customers

Qualifications and Related experience:
7+ years of technology experience.
2+ years of experience leading highly effective teams. 
Passion for people, process, technology and business.
The ability to think strategically, but execute pragmatically.
The ability to handle and resolve ambiguity and conflict.
Good analytical, collaboration and strong leadership skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and a desire to create an open and collaborative team culture.
Thrive in a fast-paced work environment and demonstrate an ability to quickly come up to speed with new technologies.
Demonstrate high levels of energy, drive for results, attention to detail and a passion for improving customer experience.
Strong understanding of testing fundamentals, strong development and design skills with a proven track record in designing and developing software verification systems and services.
Ability to plan for multiple releases and manage multiple projects.
Demonstrable passion for continuous applied learning & development
A BA/BS degree in computer science, engineering or related field is preferred.

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Job: UX Designer/Researcher, Senior - AppEx - 851625

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Job Category: Software Engineering: Creative
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 851625-122990
Division: Applications and Services Engineering

Description
The Applications, Media and Publishing team is responsible for creating the next-generation in-the-box Apps for Windows tablets, Windows Phone and Xbox. The Design group is seeking an exceptional lead designer with a proven track record for creating beautiful, elegant and impactful design solutions. This is an exceptional opportunity for someone who is excited about making an impact on the Windows tablet, Windows Phone and Xbox experiences. 

You will work with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to create beautiful touch-based apps that facilitate what users want to do and delight them along the way. You will conceptualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues. The individual will oversee the activities of a team of designers and lead design direction for a portfolio of high-profile Windows 8 pre-install apps. 

The candidate must be a thought leader and craftsperson, be able to drive design direction, ensure team effectiveness and cross group collaboration. Your design work is clean, focused and inspiring to others. Applicants must feel very comfortable leading design through all phases of the product design cycle. You can easily switch from micro to macro - from understanding the strategic value of our organization’s app strategy to creating design systems that are scalable, extensible through to finessing visual designs at a pixel level.

You will oversee your team’s day-to-day responsibilities, setting goals, building relationships and creating a highly creative environment for the design team to flourish. The right person will be both a fantastic manager and talented designer- splitting your time between hands-on design work and team management. 

All candidates must send a portfolio or work samples along with their inquiries. Please indicate your specific roles and contributions for each project submitted as part of the portfolio. 


Requirements:

5+ years’ experience of Product design with a minimum of 5 years’ experience with online services.
1+ year’s management experience. 
Strong command of visual design capabilities, including composition, layout information hierarchy, typography and color.
User-centric approach to design and an understanding of how to apply user research data. 
An ability to create/ prototype design stories that articulate the desired user experience to the project team and stakeholders.
Strong collaboration and people management skills. Proven ability to lead, inspire, and nurture teams with direction, vision and planning.
A working understanding of HTML and experience with agile engineering methods is essential. CSS skills would be a plus but not essential. 
Highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite software. 
Excellent verbal/ written communication and presentation skills.
Passion for design and ability to effectively share your point of view and expertise with project team members.
Offer active thought leadership in User Experience issues and trends
Develop and document detailed user experience specifications for highly interactive interfaces.

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Job: Channel Partner Manager

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Job Category: Sales
Location: New York, NY, US
Job ID: 850659-122982
Division: Advertising & Online

Description
Microsoft Advertising’s Channel Partner & Exchange team is looking for a highly-motivated Senior Partner Sales Executive to manage relationships with strategic channel partners such as agency trading desks, DSP’s and ad networks. The Channel Partner & Exchange team is on the cutting edge of the digital advertising industry, helping Microsoft to solidify its position as a premium ad exchange full of exclusive access to Microsoft Owned & Operated and partner inventory sold in a programmatic manner that includes, but is not limited to Real-Time Bidding (RTB). 

The Senior Partner Sales Executive position plays a key role in the Microsoft Advertising account team, responsible for generating revenue from a specific set of customers, maintaining the overall relationship with those customers and other industry intermediaries, and coordination of ad exchange selling efforts with our Media Network and field sales teams.

Core Responsibilities
• Generate revenue towards a define quota established for the Microsoft Advertising Exchange by selling into Agency Trading Desks, DSP’s, and other Channel Partner entities.
• Exhibit good judgment about when and how to introduce customers to the exchange, taking into account their interest, marketing needs, readiness, and existing spend 
• Maintain high customer satisfaction with Channel Partners, end customers, and other intermediaries by providing insights into their buying behavior via regular meetings and business reviews
• Develop and own strategic account plans for new and existing partners
• Cultivate strong relationships while serving as the face of Microsoft Advertising within the RTB community
• Collaborate with other Microsoft Advertising sales teams to help drive revenue with joint customers
• Be the subject matter expert within US Field Sales on all things relating to the Microsoft Ad Exchange, programmatic buying, and the evolution of the business in that direction
• Consult account teams on whether, when, and how to transition customers to programmatic buying through an exchange, be it through an agency, a DSP, a network, or some combination of the three
• Where appropriate, work with the marketing team to develop and assist in events for customers
• Maintain a pipeline of existing and prospective partnerships for an accurate forecast
• Attend and participate at RTB-relevant conferences, seminars, and industry events
• Develop relationships with third party companies including AppNexus, data providers, data exchanges, ad verification companies, and supply side platforms that catalyze our exchange business with agencies and advertisers

Qualifications:
• 7+ years’ experience in display advertising sales, within the Internet Media Industry
• A deep understanding of the online advertising display space with a focus on audience-based selling, the tools and technology that enable it, as well as the various intermediaries that sit in between Advertisers and Publishers
• Experience with partner/channel/alliance management, business development and negotiations with executives that may be C-level, SVP, or VPs within their organizations
• Experience with direct advertiser sales, including negotiations and management of strategic partnerships at senior levels within the marketing division and agency

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Job: ESCALATION ENGINEER

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Job Category: Customer Service & Support
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 849724-122974
Division: Services & Support

Description
Would you like to be on the bleeding edge of today’s computing devices? Would you like to use your deep development, debugging and problem solving skills to make direct contributions to the Windows code base? Want to impact the success of Microsoft’s key OEM’s and Microsoft’s bottom line? Interested in a job that offers something new every day? If this sounds like you and you want to work with a tight knit group of highly technical Escalation Engineers then this may be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

As part of the Windows OEM & Devices Support Team, you’ll work directly with top engineers from the technology industry to ensure a high quality end user experience. We work to unblock their most critical and highest impacting issues. We work directly with Windows development teams to ensure Windows runs optimally on today’s computing devices. We work in a challenging environment where you’ll put your technical depth, development & debugging skills to the test on all Windows Operating Systems including those still in development.

Responsibilities: 
You will work closely with our support team and the Windows development teams to analyze and debug critical issues that impact product quality. Frequently, these problems will not only be technically complex, but will be politically charged situations requiring the highest level of customer skill and diplomacy both externally and internally. These issues will involve broad, solid knowledge of all Microsoft’s operating systems or in-depth hardware knowledge; may include ACPI, UEFI, Firmware, iSCSI & SAN technologies, USB, Bluetooth ETC. You will be responsible for deep code level analysis and debugging. You will also interact with development teams to document code defects and suggest design changes to optimize the Windows experience for our customers.

Desired Qualifications: 
The ideal candidate will have a four year degree in C.S. or E.E. and a minimum of four years product support & development and debugging experience. Proficiency in C & C++ development as well as Windows debugging tools are required. Prior knowledge of the product(s) to be supported including Windows storage technologies and all Windows operating systems. Candidates must also have strong problem solving, superior communication and cross group collaboration skills and work well within a team environment. 

This position is located in Issaquah, WA

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Job: Software Development Engineer In Test II

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Job Category: Software Engineering: Test
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 849134-122964
Division: Cloud and Enterprise Engineering

Description
.NET Framework Core team plays critical roles to enable .NET managed development experience for platforms, frameworks and applications everywhere in the world. We empower server, client, devices and cloud computing experiences, such as SQL, SharePoint, ASP.NET, desktop applications, Windows store applications, Windows Phone 8 applications, embedded smart devices, cloud computing in Windows Azure. Our goal is to enable great .NET managed code developer experiences across all supported platforms. We drive the managed API convergence across platforms, more flexible release model to better satisfy .NET Framework customers, improvement of portable program models across platforms, etc. If you like to write programs in managed code using .NET Framework and have passion to make the developer experience even better, here is your opportunity: .NET Framework Core Team is hiring!

.NET Framework Core Test team is looking for a highly motivated and strong technical individual with passion to improve managed code developer experiences and ship high quality software. The responsibilities include driving and verifying:
API convergence across platforms with high compatibility
Good developer experience on all managed code supported platforms in future releases
Good developer experience of developing portable programs crossing platforms
High quality core .NET Framework APIs
Out-of-band releases for .NET Framework components to enable flexible release model to drive customer satisfaction
You will partner with DEVs, PMs and other SDETs to design new features; you will define and drive quality for the feature areas; you will be an advocate of our customers verifying end to end customer scenarios and driving world class customer experiences. You will own and innovate test tools, test infrastructure and test methodologies.

Qualifications:
Strong technical background and quick learner for new technologies.
Excellent problem solving and design skills
Good communication skill and team player
A passion for shipping high quality software
Strong focus on customer experience satisfaction
Demonstrable strong coding skills and 5+ years’ experience with C/C++ and/or at least one managed language like C#
4+ years’ experience in shipping software is a plus
BS/MS degree in Computer Science or other related technical field

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Job: Principal Data Scientist

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Job Category: Technical Service and IT
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 850090-122971
Division: IT

Description
Microsoft IT is for those IT professionals and business technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using all of Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft IT provides career growth opportunities, a rewarding and flexible work environment so you can better integrate professional and personal life. Unlike other IT organizations, Microsoft IT employees make global impact on thousands of customers and thousands of employees who use Microsoft software and services.


The Data & Decision Sciences Group is part of the Strategic Enterprise Services organization in Microsoft IT. We help drive actionable business intelligence through advanced statistical modeling and business analytics across Microsoft. The team focuses on enterprise level engagement, where advanced data mining and modeling skills are needed to find business insights. Currently we are expanding our team to support our internal clients. Our goal is to enable business performance improvements through simulation modeling, forecasting, and advanced analytics - resulting into business impact. The candidate will be expected to work directly with internal clients on analytic engagements and identify potential improvement opportunities. The candidate must possess a passion for advanced analytics and possess strong skills in simulation modeling. Expertise in analytics across various business domains relevant to the Microsoft business is a definite plus.

75% of the time driving multiple analytic projects with high complexity, strategic value, and executive visibility
25% of the time sharing best practices and growing the culture of data driven decision making in Microsoft

Core Job Requirements and Skills:

Business Domain Experience using Analytics
Must have experience across several relevant business domains in the utilization of critical thinking skills to conceptualize complex business problems and their solutions using simulation modeling and advanced analytics using large scale real-world business data sets

The candidate must be able to independently run analytic projects and help our internal clients understand the findings and translate them into action to drive their business. 


Predictive Modeling
Experience across industries in predictive modeling

Business problem definition and conceptual modeling with the client to elicit important relationships and to define the system scope

Web analytics experience using click-stream data is highly desirable


Statistics/Econometrics
Specification and estimation of structural model equations for enterprise and consumer behavior, production cost, factor demand, discrete choice, and other technology relationships as needed

Advanced regression analysis of single equation models, including logistic regression, quantile regression, weighted least squares

Time series analysis and forecasting

Use of lag structures for dependent and independent variables

Equation specification/diagnostic testing

Strong SQL skills to handle large data sets


Communication and Collaboration Skills

Work independently or manage a virtual team that will research innovative solutions to challenging business problems

Collaborate with partners, apply critical thinking skills, and drive analytic projects end-to-end

Superior communication skills, both verbal and written

Passion to build mastery in the development and use of simulation modeling and analytics through shared learning with team members and business stakeholders

Software Packages
Advanced Statistical/Econometric software packages: SAS, R, Matlab, SAS Enterprise Miner

Simulation programming languages: Powersim or closely related package

Data exploration, visualization, and management: T-SQL, Excel, PowerPivot

Qualifications:
Minimum 10+ years of related experience required
Ph. D in quantitative field desirable.

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Job: Software Development Engineer II

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Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 850563-122955
Division: Cloud and Enterprise Engineering

Description
Are you passionate about Services and Agile Development? Do you want to build best-in-class development solution utilizing modern technologies, and in the process, influence how Microsoft delivers software?

Visual Studio Team Foundation is industry leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) - helping teams build better software, faster. We provide services such as user story and bug tracking, version control, build, test case management and analytics. Our platform is up and running in the cloud and also deployed in enterprises. Our services are built on top of Windows and SQL Azure (check out for a sneak peek).

We have an opening for a developer on Agile Planning team. This is the center of gravity of all contributors in the software development cycle to capture and orchestrate process, organize schedules and deliverables, deploy to test, pre-production and production environments, collaborate and make shipping fast, repeatable and high quality. 
We are looking for a self-driven, customer focused developer with a passion for building scalable services and deep knowledge of .Net Framework and web technologies. You will be responsible for design and implementation of front end and backend features implementing the Agile Release Planning experiences. The position will require you to have and/or gain extensive knowledge of these technologies: SQL, Web Services, REST, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery. We’re looking for a candidate who seeks big challenges as part of a strong team and can mix great collaboration skills with an ability to work independently and deliver well thought out solutions to tough problems. 

Members of this team have a passion for improving and evolving collaboration, engineering practices, and producing high quality software. We are also enjoy building and participating in highly effective teams.


Basic Qualifications
BS degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
3+ years of commercial software development experience using C# or Java or C++
Proficiency on at least 3 of the following SQL or REST or ASP.NET MVC or “model view controller” or mvc pattern or model view controller pattern or controller or HTML5 or JavaScript or JS or jscript or jQuery

Preferred Qualifications
1+ years experience with development in large, high-volume services and responsive, elegant web UI is beneficial

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Job: Senior Software Development Engineer - Dynamics

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Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 851257-122958
Division: MS Business Solutions (Dynamics)


PRODUCT
Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a rapidly growing business at Microsoft and is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications. CRM consists of a model driven platform that revolutionizes how business applications are designed and delivered - completely removing the need for customers to migrate legacy applications to the cloud. This platform drives business applications for domains such as Sales, Marketing and Customer Service - whilst also enabling customization by business users - or completely new solutions to be built by business users, developers and ISV's. 

This is an exciting time to join Dynamics, where we are innovating and rethinking CRM - from how we design the user experience to what capabilities the next generation of business productivity software looks like - our customers are the focus. We aim to build the best-in-class application experience, flexible business process management, and powerful data management capabilities - and are looking for experienced engineers to help us design the next version of our online service and lead Microsoft’s charge against SalesForce.com. 

TEAM
The team consists of highly motivated, innovative, customer focused engineers and engineering leaders. We’re optimizing our engineering for the cloud first with a faster cadence of releases to deliver innovation at an exciting pace. Our team works in an agile start-up like environment where we expect each team member to think out of the box to contribute and collaborate towards the mission of the team in a feature-crew setting. As part of this team you would get exciting opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies (HTML5, Script#, C#) across a variety of platforms to build the next generation application experiences for Dynamics CRM and revolutionize the way businesses operate.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITY
We are looking for an experienced developer to join in the development of the next generation of experiences and business processes for Dynamics CRM. In this role you will be focused on design, implementation and delivery of high quality features that not only deliver cutting edge user experiences and solve complex business problems but also scale to support active usage around the world 24x7. You are expected to be independent and solve complex technical challenges within cross discipline feature crews to achieve high quality results.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE (YOU)
The ideal candidate is a strong Software Development Engineer with a proven track record of delivering products.
- Passionate, self-motivated and customer focused.
- Strong problem solving and design skills and established knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- 6+ years of experience in software development/testing related to online application development
- Solid experience in an OO Language like C# or Java
- Experience with HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript and other upcoming web technologies 
- Experience with Web Services and n-tier applications in general
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server ideally in a multi-tenant online environment 
- Experience designing and testing for performance in an online environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic and agile environment
- Able to collaborate across feature crews, teams and discipline boundaries to deliver compelling end to end experiences
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

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Job: Contracts Manager - MS U. S. Public Sector Services - Reston, VA

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Job Category: Sales
Location: Reston, VA, US
Job ID: 850908-122954
Division: Sales

Description
Microsoft U. S. Public Sector Services is looking for an experienced Contracts Executive (“CE”) to provide world class Government contracts and subcontracts negotiations and business development/capture support. The ideal candidate will be able to work as a member of a cohesive direct services sales support team in a very fast paced and highly transactional IT Services environment. Primary Responsibilities include: helping develop, capture, negotiate, execute and administer IT services proposals and contracts; primarily with the Federal Government and state & local agencies and customers. This position will also require some contracting coordination with our Channel Partners, System Integrators and ISV’s. Prompt and regular collaboration and communication with our IT Consulting Delivery Managers and Sales Executives is critical to helping sell Consulting Services and negotiate appropriate and acceptable (to Microsoft) terms and conditions in accordance with Government regulations and statutes. The ability to travel is required for internal Microsoft meetings as well as customer/partner meetings. Daily responsibilities will include the following:

Provides competent contract and subcontract negotiation support necessary to drive IT Services contract revenue for Microsoft Consulting Services;
Support contracting lifecycle strategy from contract development through contract closure; 
Tracks and monitors contract pipeline revenue using web-based tools;
Support RFP bid responses, including proposal review teams to ensure successful contract wins with Public Sector customers;
Ensures contractual/legal compliance with government contracts and subcontracts; 
Communicates with internal customers, Public Sector customers and Microsoft Partners to ensure proper execution of contract and subcontract negotiation and administration and close-out strategy;
- Draft, review and negotiate Federal Government Contracts, State & Local government Agreements, Teaming Agreements, Master Service Agreements, Subcontract Agreements, proposals, Non-Disclosure agreements and other various documents in support of our U.S. Public Sector Services business;
- Draft exceptions and responses with alternative language to RFP terms and conditions, compliance requirements and representations and certifications;
- Participate in face-to-face contract negotiations and consistently understand, interpret and apply the Federal Acquisition regulations and/or state & local government procurement states, including complex services terms and conditions to reach successful closure of IT services sales opportunities; 
- Identify and resolve contract issues in a manner that meets customer and partner needs, negotiate change orders and ensure contractual compliance with government contract regulations and policies;
- Proactively identifies and recommends solutions for improving the RFP response, contract development and services sales processes, and participate in execution to meet team/group revenue targets;
- Attend daily/weekly pipeline and strategy calls and meetings with customers and internal employees; and,
- Work closely with Sales and Delivery teams to drive New Work Sold and Billed Revenue.

Position Requirements:

Qualifications: A B.A. or B.S. degree (or equivalent experience) and a minimum of 5 years demonstrated direct experience supporting the sales of IT Services contracts and subcontracts in the Federal Government and/or state & local government arena. Excellent working knowledge and practical experience with researching, interpreting and applying the various Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs), Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (D/FARs), specifically FAR Part 12, Commercial Item Contracting provisions; and standard commercial terms relevant to IT services contracts. Experience negotiating Teaming Agreements and Non-Disclosure Agreements in support of capturing Government services business. Demonstrated direct experience and willingness to develop external customer relationships as well as internal team relationships through interactions over the phone, email and in person to drive Services growth in Public Sector.

Preferable Skills:

Direct IT Services Sales Support (cradle-to-grave lifecycle), Proposal/Solicitation Preparation; Contract Writing; Negotiation; Contract Administration; Intellectual Property/Data Rights; Partnership/Teaming Arrangement; Risk Management; Sole Source Procurement; FAR Part 2.101 Commercial Items contracting; SOW/Specification review; Change Management process; Customer Relationship Development.

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Nearest Major Market: Washington DC 
Job Segments: Purchasing, Consulting, Business Development, Risk Management, Manager, Finance, Technology, Sales, Management

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Job: Senior Program Manager

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Job Category: Technical Service and IT
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 851273-122963
Division: IT

Description
Microsoft IT is for those IT professionals and business technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using all of Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft IT provides career growth opportunities, a rewarding and flexible work environment so you can better integrate professional and personal life. Unlike other IT organizations, Microsoft IT employees make global impact on thousands of customers and thousands of employees who use Microsoft software and services.

All around us, business and personal ecosystems are undergoing a paradigm shift to new digital experiences. Microsoft and Microsoft IT play a central role in enabling this transformation. Are you passionate about leading the creation of our digital future? If so, this Senior Program Manager role may be just right for you.

Microsoft IT is a $1.2B global organization with 4000+ employees and a mission to deliver IT solutions and services that drive innovation and business value to Microsoft. Like all other businesses, MS IT itself is undergoing this shift from manual/analog business process to reimagined digital processes. Digitizing MS IT’s own business processes/services will help drive economies of scale, reduce friction, and most importantly: drive continual, breakthrough improvement to the customer/partner experience.

The Corporate Functions IT organization is seeking an innovative Senior Program Manager who can lead the planning and project execution for various projects with in CFIT. This position requires a leader who has demonstrated experience in Line of Business Enterprise applications and someone who has demonstrated excellence in delivering world class solutions in a highly matrixed and global organization. This role demands excellence in strategic thinking, driving for results, operational excellence, cross-division collaboration, impact/influence and executive maturity.

Detailed Job Responsibilities
Leading a large mutli-discipline engineering team to deliver a major software development/implementation project by managing scope, schedule, issues/risks, trade-offs, communications and expectations.

Must be ready and be able to get into details(functional and technical) and drive to resolve issues

Should have a true passion to deal with multiple customer groups, a complex application portfolio which includes solutions engineered by 3rd party, vendor managed and FTE managed engineering teams in a global delivery model.

Manage project plans and schedule commitments, ensure plans are integrated and aligned to overall organizational and business strategy

Work with business partners to define and prioritize requirements and scope using a user focused design model.

Develop and sustain strong working relationships with product management, customers, program management, development, test, operations, vendors and IT peers

Demonstrate that customer satisfaction is top priority by ensuring team’s commitments are aligned with and delivered to meet customer satisfaction objectives

Analyze, remove, and proactively prevent roadblocks across team to meet quality standards, project milestones, and business objectives

Follow and enforce structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology, ensuring projects adhere to SDLC key controls and milestones

Ensure team output consistently meets standards and policies for security, privacy and performance

Status reporting to all stakeholders

Drive corrective and strategic insight to industry best practices, trending and benchmarking, and/or research to help define and enable determined IT strategies/portfolio roadmaps


Required Experience and Qualifications:

Minimum 8 years of experience as project manager or program manager or systems analyst or systems/management consultant including functional analysis and design with hands on analysis and design and specifications experience

Minimum 8 years of experience working with SDLC methodologies

Minimum 8 years of experience and proven ability to resource, drive and deliver software projects including ERP or 3rd party applications or applications developed in-house or applications developed using an offshore model. 

Finance applications and business process in-depth experience is required

Preferred Qualifications:
Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).

Understanding of Enterprise IT at the scale and complexity of Microsoft.

Exceptional ability to collaborate, openly communicate, present and negotiate effectively across disciplines and groups, with vendors and with customers.

Demonstrated experience delivering results in an ambiguous and changing environment, the ability to work independently and be a self-starter.

Strong customer focus, systems analysis and analytical problem solving skills is a must.

Sound judgment and decision-making skills, ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, and ability to work under deadline pressure.

Demonstrated experience delivering software applications using structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology; should include experience where candidate was personally responsible for completing typical program manager owned deliverables including project schedules and functional specifications.

High degree of technical aptitude and a passion to learn new technologies. Ability to quickly grasp and understand technical problems and concepts and apply this knowledge.

Excellent project planning, management and deployment skills.

Meticulous attention to detail and a passion for driving execution at a detail level when necessary while maintaining the ability to see the big picture.

Worked extensively in a global delivery model.

CFIT

Nearest Major Market: Seattle 
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue 
Job Segments: Program Manager, Engineer, ERP, Manager, Research, Management, Engineering, Technology

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Job: Business Manager

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Job Category: Operations
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 850301-122947
Division: Business Development and Evangelism

Description

Do you want to be part of one of the most exciting efforts going on within Microsoft? The global partner team in DPE is responsible for managing some of the most strategic commercial and consumer business partnerships across Microsoft, to help them build world-class applications on Windows, Windows Phone and Azure that delight our customers. The Global Partner team in DPE is hiring an exceptional business manager with passion for partners and the ability to work across multiple stakeholders and disciplines! As the business manager for the team you will be responsible for developing and driving the business management framework and processes, metrics, budget, capacity and resource management required to ensure the successful execution of the rhythm of the business partnering with leadership in DPE. Strong persuasion, prioritization and relationship building skills are a must. You’ll have the ability to handle multiple time-sensitive projects at once, and be at ease leading and influencing cross-functional teams across marketing, engineering and the new Business Development and Evangelism (BD&E) group. 

Key responsibilities:
-Drive rhythm of business (RoB) management and deliverables 
-Run the team’s execution cadence (e.g., staff meetings, organizational metrics/scorecard, budgeting, fiscal planning, reviews, commitments, etc.)
-Partner with leadership to increase employee engagement and drive internal communications
-Deliver processes and tools in conjunction with Finance and Business Management that facilitate a consolidated view of team budget
-Manage internal tools (e.g. SharePoint, TAPs,) and provide support for the global account management team on operational excellence

Qualifications: 
An ideal candidate should have excellent skills in all aspects of planning, cross-group collaboration, communications, analytical capabilities and attention to detail. He or she should have a passion and proven record for execution with measurable results. 
-BA or equivalent 4-year degree, with MBA/Masters preferred. 
-5+ years of business management, marketing or consulting experience.
-Experience leading and driving complex projects with multiple work streams spanning different business and disciplines. 
-Demonstrated virtual team leadership capabilities and ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization.
-Excellence in managing OPEX and all aspects of budget planning.
-Ability to work cross-functionally without authority

Nearest Major Market: Seattle 
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue 
Job Segments: Engineer, Consulting, Developer, Business Development, Manager, Engineering, Technology, Sales, Management

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