Nairobi, Nairobi City, Kenya
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.
The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world
Qualifications
6+ years of software development and design experience
– 2+ years of experience in managing a large software engineering team – Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
– Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, Python, JavaScript, Java, C/C++
– Proven track record of leading successful software development projects and collaborating with others on designing, developing, testing, and shipping solutions to large scale technical problems and meeting requirements on time.
– Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills. – Ability to deal with ambiguity and understand key business needs in line with competing priorities and apply the right technology and implementation to the solution.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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Responsibilities
Lead and guide a team of software engineers in the design, development, and implementation of complex systems.
– Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to development processes, tools, and team efficiency. – Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ship innovative technologies that deliver Identity capabilities to Microsoft customers to protect their assets in the cloud.
– Adhere to and drive modern software engineering best-practices within the team
– Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
– Lead and mentor a group of diverse and dedicated team members. – Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
î«”Industry leading healthcare
îž¾Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
ï¡¢Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
î‘Giving programs
î¿”Opportunities to network and connect
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
