Senior Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications

Microsoft is a technology company advancing AI applications and cloud platforms for enterprise customers. The Senior Solution Engineer will drive technical sales and customer adoption through demonstrations, proofs of concept, hackathons, and architecture workshops. The role involves designing secure, scalable AI and cloud-native solutions, resolving technical challenges, and guiding customers through application modernization and deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments
• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products
• Maintain deep expertise in AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud native dev (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java or .NET)
• Maintain and grow expertise in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring)
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums
• Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience
• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties
• 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 infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Proficient on Agentic framework, AI Management & Security (e.g., Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestrator, monitoring)
• Skilled with 1 or more frameworks, tools, languages (e.g., GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools)