Microsoft

Principal Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer

Microsoft • $165K — $313K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT plus extensive technical pre-sales or consulting experience
  • 10+ years in technical pre-sales or consulting is preferred
  • 8+ years of experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure and architecture
  • Certification in relevant technologies like Azure, Office 365, or Information Security is advantageous
  • Experience with agentic AI solutions using Microsoft technologies
  • Knowledge of cloud architecture, data security, and business applications
  • Proficient in modern development tools and languages, including Python, Java, or C#.

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI-powered application engagements with expertise in architecture and development.
  • Orchestrate cross-solution AI transformation addressing customer priorities.
  • Drive technical decisions through demos, proofs of concept, and solving blockers.
  • Bridge customer business and tech priorities to create sales opportunities.
  • Identify customer patterns to develop repeatable technical motions.
  • Coach peers and share best practices to elevate technical capability.
  • Mobilize Microsoft resources to enhance customer engagement and feedback.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead complex customer transformations with cutting-edge AI technology.
  • Develop deep expertise in AI, applications, and cloud-native development.
  • Join a collaborative environment with access to extensive Microsoft resources.
  • Opportunity for significant impact through mentorship and coaching of peers.
  • Potential for growth in both technical skills and business acumen.
Full Job Description
Overview

Are you passionate about building the next generation of AI-powered applications and leading complex customer transformations? As a Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer, you will bring deep technical expertise in agentic AI, AI application architecture, and cloud-native development while helping customers turn ambition into secure, scalable, production-ready solutions.

This is a senior individual contributor technical sales role with primary depth in AI & Apps and a broad leadership mandate across the Microsoft platform. You will lead strategic technical engagements, orchestrate expertise across Business Applications, Security, Cloud & AI Platform, Data, engineering, partners, and the broader field, and bring the best of Microsoft together around customers' most important transformation priorities.

You will also help scale the business beyond your own engagements by creating repeatable technical motions and reusable assets, sharing field insights, coaching peers, and influencing technical strategy. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your AI and application expertise, grow business and customer acumen, and expand your impact as a technical leader who leads through influence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic Agentic AI and AI-powered application customer engagements, bringing deep expertise in application architecture, agent development, application modernization, and cloud-native development.


  • Lead cross-solution AI transformation by orchestrating technical expertise across AI & Apps, Business Applications, Security, Cloud & AI Platform, Data, engineering, partners, and field teams to address end-to-end customer priorities.


  • Win technical decisions through envisioning, architecture and design sessions, live demonstrations, rapid prototyping, proofs of concept, pilots, and resolution of technical blockers that accelerate production deployment decisions.


  • Connect customer business and technology priorities to technical sales opportunities, competitive positioning, pipeline creation, customer commitment, and deployment outcomes.


  • Lead and scale a portion of the pre-sales business by identifying recurring customer patterns, shaping repeatable technical motions, and creating or reusing architectures, demonstrations, guidance, and assets that can be leveraged by the broader field.


  • Lead through influence across the Solution Engineering community by coaching peers, sharing best practices, raising technical capability, and creating clarity across complex cross-solution engagements without formal people-management authority.


  • Bring the best of Microsoft to customers by mobilizing the right engineering, specialist, partner, program, and field resources, and by sharing customer feedback and field learnings that help improve Microsoft offerings and go-to-market execution.


Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 10+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • 10+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 8+ 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).
  • Experience designing, deploying, and managing agentic AI solutions using Microsoft AI technologies.
  • Knowledge of cloud architecture, data, security, governance, and business applications.
  • Experience with modern development tools and languages such as GitHub, VS Code, Python, Node.js, Java, or C#.Ability to translate customer insights and emerging technology trends into scalable business and technical outcomes.


Solution Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $165,000 - CAD $313,300 per year.

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

Solution Engineering IC6 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 165,000 $ CAD à 313,300 $ 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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