Microsoft Middle East & Africa (MEA) is a dynamic and rapidly growing region when it comes to our technology platform. To mirror this, we have a slew of jobs in the region that we are actively hiring for.  Click on any of the links to view the job details, and then click the Apply to job button to submit your CV/resume.  You can also filter for only jobs in a specific product line or division, and save that search.

I created a list that highlights some of the countries in MEA – feel free to subscribe directly to this list, or create your own.

View RSS to see the various jobs in MEA – you can subscribe to this list for real time updates. Here is an excerpt of the roles in UAE and Turkey.

Highlights

My number one favorite open position in Dubai that we have open is a Developer Evangelist, the role I played in New York City for nearly 7 years.  This one will go fast, so please apply fast.   The second most interesting role is the Academic & Local Software Economy Lead who can live nearly anywhere in the region. Both are listed below.

I like to think of Dubai as the New York and Abu Dhabi as the Washington DC of the Emirates. In Abu Dhabi, order reins true in properly parallel streets – which is not the only rein, as evidenced by the recently rebranded Burj Khalifa. There we have several positions open - we even offer part time flexibility, which perfect for young mothers.

We have a wide variety of roles available in MEA, for the newly graduated and looking to break into IT/ICT, to the developer who is interested in cloud or the seasoned architect, or to the senior executive looking for a challenging role in our Business Management Office.

UAE

Gulf Developer Evangelist(709830 -External)

Job Title: Gulf Developer Evangelist Location: Dubai, UAE Role Description: The Gulf Developer Evangelist (DE) principle role is to promote adoption of Microsoft platform technologies, which leads to current and future revenue, customer satisfaction, market share gains and positive NSAT amongst our partners and customers. The DE will represent both the technical trusted advisor and liaison between the developer community and Microsoft. He or she will motivate cross group stakeholders to pa...

MEA HQ Academic Evangelism LSE Lead (256434 -External)

MEA Academic Evangelism & LSE Lead Location: MEA HQ Approved Locations (UAE, Turkey, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel or South Africa) MEA is full of talented young people who will soon lead the IT sector across the region. Microsoft has a unique and critical opportunity to engage this highly influential audience today. The education space is the frontline of competing for share vs. Google, Apple, and OpenOffice, as well as a long-standing hotbed for Linux and OSS support. Our mission is to win the ...

App Dev Consultant Abu Dhabi(715095 -External)

Job Title: App Dev Consultant Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Microsoft Services Mission Statement: Ready to focus on being the expert with a single product, technology, or solution space in complex environments? Want to product knowledge to customer business solutions that impact to the bottom line of the company? Interested in leveraging your technical skills to create innovative customer solutions? Are you interested in having first-hand knowledge of the roadmaps for the broadest and most innov...

Partner Account Manager UAE(709566 -External)

Job title: Partner Account Manager-Solution Job location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Job Overview PAM Solution is responsible for business planning, developing, and managing Microsoft’s key services and solutions partners, such as consultancies and solution integrators. The PAM Solution’s key individual accountabilities are focused on their engagement activities with their managed partners to influence and lead to the success and growth of the partner selling and implementing Microsoft Solutions. P...

Engagement Manager Part-Time(710705 -External)

Engagement Manager - part time Location: UAE/Abu Dhabi Hours: 24 working hours per week - Working days flexible and to be agreed with the successful candidate. Microsoft also supports flexible working arrangements and you will be able to work from home. This is customer facing role which requires meeting and working closely with Microsoft team, Partners team and Customers. Microsoft Services help customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Micros...

Turkey

Regional Procurement Manager (715044 -External)

Job title: Regional Procurement Manager Location: Istanbul, Turkey The Global Procurement Group (GPG) EMEA is a team of procurement professionals who are predominantly active in the EMEA region Category Managers Team or the Area Procurement Managers Team. This Procurement management MEA region position (M1) includes support to the Turkish subsidiary, is based in Istanbul, Turkey and reports into the EMEA GPG Areas Group manager. - This position is responsible for understanding of, and givi...

PRODUCT MANAGER - CLIENT & IW(712008 -External)

Information Worker Product Marketing Manager (IW PMM) – Microsoft Turkey Mission The Product Marketing Manager (PMM) is accountable for driving growth, revenue and scorecard (SC) targets within the Business Marketing Organization (BMO) and with the segments for ‘Information Worker’ Business Group’s products & technologies ( Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, Exchange Server,etc.) audiences, and initiatives. The workgroup is accountable for growing share of IW products, monitoring the progress aga...

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TechDays Sweden 2010 (March 23-24 2010) is proud to host a pre-conference WomenBuild workshop on March 22, 2010 at 6.30pm.

Join us for our first 2010 WomenBuild session in Sweden! The WomenBuild program is specifically designed to address the decline of female talent and leadership in the computer science industry. Microsoft partnered with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY (LSP) through Robert Rasmussen & Associates to create a unique interactive workshop, using LEGO® Bricks to model solutions for growing strong female leaders in the software industry.

WomenBuild is not only a program but a growing community that provides accessibility to female role models, access to resources, and an open communication path to the Microsoft Women in Technology community.

The WomenBuild program incorporates a hands-on process that draws on the power of creative thinking to shift group conversation from talking heads to focused minds. Each team will be run as a facilitated conversation with physical Lego brick constructions that will powerfully shift a group to more productive outcomes by accomplishing a deeper mining of the diverse wisdom within the group and a clearer shared conclusion on inspirational career paths for women in the technical field. Through this workshop, attendees will share real life experiences, discuss challenges, network & build on-going relationships with other women who are attending the PDC conference. Ultimately, attendees of this workshop will find ways to unleash their creative thinking and transform ideas into concrete concepts.

In this workshop, attendees participate in an environment of rich, interactive experiences by modeling real-life business challenges and solutions with LEGO® Bricks as part of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY Program (LSP). WomenBuild opens minds to exciting and inspirational ideas on how to be a thought leader in the technical field. We work together in small groups to brainstorm and problem solve in a collaborative and productive way. The workshop includes people in various responsibility areas in teams. This way each role can impart their own unique perspective to the group, while collectively creating shared understandings that direct future activity effectively. WomenBuild workshops are not exclusive to women, as these topics apply both to men and women.

For those of you interested in attending the workshop in Sweden:

Datum och plats:
22 mars på Conventum i Örebro
Tid: 18:30 – 20:30
Ansvariga på plats: Danwei Tran, utvecklarevangelist på Microsoft och Robert Rasmussen från LEGO® Serious Play.
Vi bjuder på smörgås och dryck. Platserna är begränsade och deltagandet är kostnadsfritt.
Du anmäler ditt intresse genom att maila: danwei.tran@microsoft.com

The Women in technology has been immensely active in Seattle and New York providing guidance on how you can assist in aid for Haiti.  Both Girls in Technology, Microsoft, and the Mona Foundations have partnered together to provide much needed relief to Haiti.  In this post, you will find resources on how you can provide direct aid to Haiti through proper and credible channels.

For overview on the depth of the disaster (beyond what the news is reporting), please refer to my colleague and dear friend, Esther Schorr’s blog post .

Esther introduced me last month to Mahnaz who runs the Mona Foundation. Prior to the disaster they provided strategic goodwill to the Haitian community for education and resources for learning. In response to the disaster, the foundation has put together  Mona Foundation Relief Fund – “Because the Mona Foundation already has projects in country and relationships with the larger disaster relief agencies mentioned in the list above, we are serving as an additional funnel to get dollars where they need to go through these agencies.  Any funds sent to the Mona Foundation Relief Fund will go – 100% - directly to one of these groups expeditiously.” You can subscribe to their eUpdates HERE.  "

Be careful to avoid false aid collection sites and refer to the CNN list of valid organizations. As Esther eloquently put “ Whatever funds you raise should absolutely be sent through one of the reputable disaster relief organizations -  see this article on CNN.com for a great list of the ones that have been vetted for legitimacy and have in Haiti ties already: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/01/13/haiti.earthquake.how.to.help/index.html?hpt=T2 .  I direct you here because giving is a very personal thing and you all need to give where and how it feels right to you. I just want to be sure you don’t funnel dollars to any of the scam sites that have popped up already.”

Once Upon a Time.

Like many good stories, this one begins in a hidden password protected room in the back alleys of San Francisco. And, as true of many techie ideas, this concept was born within the manicured campuses of Silicon Valley. It starts as an off the cuff comment during an interview on the Microsoft campus “LEGO if you are watching…Send me LEGO”. My west coast counterpart, Lynn Langit and I are giving an interview on what it means to be a female evangelist within Microsoft.      [The Interview that sparks the idea for WomenBuild] We draw an analogy between building with LEGO and software architecture and development. (More on that later).  Our stance? If you like to build with LEGO, you will enjoy writing code. We hope to encourage more young girls to consider a profession in the software industry, as we had both noted that the ratio of female to male technologies was dropping alarmingly in the last 10 years.  What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?  --> #1 most emailed business article of that week in NY Times “When one looks at computer science in particular, however, the proportion of women has been falling. In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent. Data collected by the Computing Research Association showed even fewer women at research universities like M.I.T.: women accounted for only 12 percent of undergraduate degrees in computer science and engineering in the United States and Canada granted in 2006-7 by Ph.D.-granting institutions, down from 19 percent in 2001-2. Many computer science departments report that women now make up less than 10 percent of the newest undergraduates.”

formula 1: Before any outlandish business plan or idea, comes an idea sketched on a single malt scotch scented cocktail napkin

A few hours later, we find ourselves in San Francisco feverishly brainstorming behind a nondescript facade at the password protected Bourbon and Branch (House Rule: Don’t even think about asking for a Cosmo). To login you speak-the-secret-word-through-the-small-slat-in-the-door-and-no-it’s-not-FIDELIO.  Lynn and I sit entry sipping speakeasy single malt scotch, scribbling on cocktail napkins.”How on earth can we incorporate LEGO into our day job and somehow attract more female technologist?”  Clearly a problem many have agonized over.

This is the beginning of WomenBuild - an entrepreneurial concept for a partnership between Microsoft and LEGO to (1) draw awareness to, (2) build a community around, and (3) create solutions to address the decline in female technologists.

Once the broad brush strokes of a plan were drawn, the idea speeds off to its respective bicoastal incubation centers: the Hollywood sparkle of Los Angeles and the pre-crash steeliness of Wall Street. 

formula 2: blueprint for innovation = entrepreneurial ideas +  passionate people

This is the story of WomenBuild. As the story unfolds,  hopefully you will learn formulae for how you can leverage the resources of a large enterprise to incubate, grow and launch an entrepreneurial endeavor, as well as be part of the movement to grow female talent in Science Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) industries and disciplines.

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LIVING WIKI: This means that this blog post will get updated frequently with more content. 

During the MSDN Roadshow today, after my presentation on ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, I spoke about the declining trend of female technologists (more on that later). I counted 67 people in the room, 6 of which were female.    This includes myself and Caroline.

Afterwards, I was approached by a gentleman who has a 19 year old daughter who is looking for resources and programs from Microsoft for young ladies interested in software development. 

Here are some programs for young ladies who are interested in software technology.

Thanks to Jana Butler for this list of technical TechNet resources for those looking to get into software development.

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