Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer

Overview

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of Agentic AI & applications, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer for commercial customers at Microsoft.

In this technical sales role, you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

Microsoft is transforming the experience for Agentic AI applications across the development & deployment lifecycle. We’re leading the way in Agentic AI development where AI agents streamline development and operations. As an AI Apps Solution Engineer, you’ll help customers boost productivity and become AI-native.

As a Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprise AI developers unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s AI-powered stack across every stage of the development lifecycle. You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable, and resilient Agentic AI architectures that support business-critical applications and Frontier AI transformation. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers and win their technical decisions on Azure for their Agentic AI deployment.

You bring deep expertise in Agentic AI workloads—including Foundry Models & Services, Copilot Studio, Microsoft IQ, and cloud-native development while exploring how to accelerate Frontier transformation.

As you join the team, you will have the opportunity to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their application platforms to realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.

As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate Agentic AI applications into their development & deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their applications leveraging AI and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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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