Microsoft

Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer

Microsoft$128K — $222K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field plus 4+ years in technical pre-sales or consulting, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years in technical pre-sales, consulting, or technology delivery preferred
  • 6+ years with cloud or hybrid infrastructures and architecture designs
  • Certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, Cloud Platform)
  • Expertise in full stack app architecture design, cloud-native development, and Agent development

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer engagements on AI and digital transformation strategies
  • Conduct technical workshops and hands-on proof-of-concepts to enhance customer success
  • Design secure and scalable AI architectures aligned with business goals
  • Validate technical solutions and drive deployment commitment from customers
  • Act as a trusted advisor to technical and business stakeholders
  • Facilitate adoption of Microsoft AI services by identifying opportunities and overcoming barriers
  • Collaborate with various teams to achieve successful AI transformation outcomes

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge AI technologies and resources
  • Opportunities for professional growth and technical certification
  • Collaborative work environment with diverse teams
  • Engagement with leading industry partners
  • Flexibility in work arrangements and a focus on work-life balance
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Lead customer engagements focused on Agentic AI and AI application platforms, guiding technical strategy, solution adoption, and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Drive technical workshops, live demonstrations, architectural whiteboarding sessions, rapid prototyping, hands-on proof-of-concepts, and pilot deployments to accelerate customer success.
  • Design and articulate secure, scalable, and resilient Agentic AI architectures that align with customer business objectives and enterprise requirements.
  • Prove the value of technical solutions by co-creating architectures, validating designs, influencing technical decisions, and enabling customer commitment to deployment.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to developers, architects, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders throughout the customer journey.
  • Accelerate customer adoption of Microsoft AI services by identifying business opportunities, addressing technical blockers, and demonstrating measurable business value.
  • Collaborate with product engineering, customer success, partner teams, and solution specialists to deliver end-to-end AI transformation outcomes.
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture discussions around application modernization, cloud-native development, and AI-powered application experiences.
  • Stay current on emerging AI technologies, industry trends, and competitive offerings to provide customers with innovative technical guidance.
  • Share technical best practices, reusable architectures, reference implementations, and customer success patterns across the broader Microsoft ecosystem.
  • Maintain deep technical expertise in Agent Development, Azure AI Foundry Models & Services, Copilot Studio, Microsoft IQ, AI application architecture, cloud-native development, APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET.


Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.


  • 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.


  • Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).


    • Expert on full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., App Platform Services, Container Services, Serverless & Supporting App Services, Integration Services, dev tools & languages)
    • Expert for Agent development, Foundry Models (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, 1P MaaS), Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, familiar with Foundry Services (AML), Copilot Studio Platform.
    • Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., prototyping, pilot, PoCs) that drive production-scale outcomes.


Solution Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $128,000 - CAD $222,400 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Solution Engineering IC5 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 128,000 $ CAD à 222,400 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu'à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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