Senior Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Solution Engineer to help commercial and enterprise customers adopt AI-powered development innovations across the application lifecycle. The role involves driving technical sales, leading hands-on engagements, designing secure and scalable AI and cloud architectures, resolving technical blockers, and accelerating AI application deployment workflows.

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)