Tech Evangelist

Job description

COME AS YOU ARE, DO WHAT YOU LOVE

Technical Evangelist

Do you love technology? Do you want to make companies more successful by applying technology?   Do you enjoy helping people to understand technology and trends? If so, then we have the job for you. We are looking for someone with a passion for technology to join the Microsoft UK Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX) team.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has defined our mission to empower every individual and organization to do more in the cloud first, mobile first world. We have three bold ambitions: to create more personal computing, to reinvent productivity and business processes, and to build the intelligent cloud that will be at the heart of this empowerment.   All of us in the Developer Experience team come to work to inspire people and help them to build the software that will empower everyone and every organisation to do more.

As a Technical Evangelist (TE) you will be working with developers, assisting them with the technical guidance, information and the inspiration they need to be successful. You’ll be offering technical assistance, delivering presentations and webinars, and writing code as well as helping to shape a successful team. You’ll be anchored in helping developers build successful products using the most current and emerging technologies.

To thrive as a TE you will build and deepen technical skill and share that knowledge to help others. Loving the complexity, uncertainty and constant change of our environment, you see ambiguity as an opportunity to lead and set direction. You’ll be collaborating with some brilliantly clever and inspirational people, and your constant thirst to learn and grow and take risks will make you successful. You’ll be able to connect the dots between different technologies and the various parts of our business to scale the impact you have. Above all you’ll need to be inspired, and inspire others, by the potential of technology.

The role is based at the Microsoft Campus in Reading, and while you will need to spend some time on campus, you will also do some travelling to our London offices in Paddington, to events in other locations and to meet with companies across the UK. We embrace flexible working as a core principle of reinventing productivity, and you’ll be welcome to work from home, our offices around the country, customer sites or your favourite coffee shop next to the gym – wherever is best for you to get your job done.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and embraces workforce diversity. We have an international work environment that is characterized by flexibility and an informal culture. We invest in your health, wellness and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those of others close to you.

If you want to chat informally about the role please get in touch.

KEY FACTS

RELAX! There’s no such thing as the ideal candidate for a TE. We welcome and embrace your individuality! The list below is absolutely NOT a check list to be completed but simply a set of pictures we’re painting to give you a good understanding of the role.

KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS

Examples of the kinds of technical skills that would be great for the role:

- Experience in one or more modern development languages like C#, R, Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.

- Experience in an area of cloud based data management or processing or visualisation

- Knowledge and experience in some of the following areas: data management, data processing, data storage, analytics, data visualisation, machine learning, IoT, DevOps, functional programming, machine learning, artificial intelligence

- Experience with some of the following technologies and products: Azure, Data Lake, Data Lake Analytics, SQL, Power BI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, TensorFlow, Tableau, Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Spark

KEY PERSONAL QUALITIES

- A passion for today’s and tomorrow’s technology with an open mind on the future of technological advancement

- Motivated by helping people solve technical problems

- Personal interest in data - storage, analysis, visualisation & cloud based computing

- An established technical profile (social networks, blogging, GitHub contribution, published author, conference speaker, community organiser)

- Able to creatively communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to people with or without a technical background.

- Able to engage technical audiences

- Able to analyse and resolve complex business and technical issues

- Fluency in English

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Working as part of the technical evangelism team and our external partners on short term technical projects to accelerate our partner's product development on the Microsoft data platform and documenting the technical detail of those projects

- Working within the data community to build relationships and talk publicly about Microsoft's data platform

- Providing feedback to product teams to help guide the future direction of our data platform

- Working across Microsoft business groups to help solve UK data problems

LET’S START A CONVERSATION…

In our team there is a huge variation in skills and experience and backgrounds. Don’t be put off by a word or technology mentioned in this document, you likely have skills and experience that isn’t mentioned but will be of great value. Above all, we want to start a conversation with you. We look forward to hearing from you.