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About the Role
As a Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer, you will bring deep technical expertise in agentic AI, AI application architecture, and cloud-native development to help customers turn ambition into secure, scalable, production-ready solutions. This senior individual contributor role focuses on AI & Apps and leads strategic technical engagements across the Microsoft platform, orchestrating expertise to address customer transformation priorities. You will also scale the business by creating repeatable technical motions and reusable assets, sharing insights, and coaching peers.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Agentic AI
- AI application architecture
- Cloud-native development
- Application architecture
- Agent development
- Application modernization
- Cloud architecture
- Data
- Security
- Governance
- Business applications
- GitHub
- VS Code
- Python
- Node.js
- Java
- C#
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- IC6
Education Level
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $165,000 - CAD $313,300 per year
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.