Solution Engineer Apps & AI

. As a strong Solution Engineer Apps & AI you will help organisations accelerate innovation by modernising applications adopting AI-powered solutions and building intelligent and agentic experiences that deliver measurable business value. You will independently lead complex and strategic customer engagements working with technical decision-makers architects developers and business leaders to shape technical strategy design and prove solutions and lead complex technical wins. You will combine deep expertise across application modernisation AI agents and developer technologies with strong architectural judgement and business acumen to navigate ambiguity evaluate trade-offs and build alignment around the right technical approach. Working across account teams specialists engineering customer success and partners you will orchestrate the right expertise to accelerate customer decisions adoption and expansion. You will also scale your impact beyond individual engagements by mentoring others developing reusable approaches building competitive insight and bringing customer and market learning back to product and engineering teams.
As a Solution Engineer Apps & AI you will help organisations accelerate innovation by modernising applications adopting AI-powered solutions and building intelligent and agentic experiences that deliver measurable business value.

You will independently lead complex and strategic customer engagements working with technical decision-makers architects developers and business leaders to shape technical strategy design and prove solutions and lead complex technical wins. You will combine deep expertise across application modernisation AI agents and developer technologies with strong architectural judgement and business acumen to navigate ambiguity evaluate trade-offs and build alignment around the right technical approach.

Working across account teams specialists engineering customer success and partners you will orchestrate the right expertise to accelerate customer decisions adoption and expansion. You will also scale your impact beyond individual engagements by mentoring others developing reusable approaches building competitive insight and bringing customer and market learning back to product and engineering teams.

• Develop strategic Apps & AI technical approaches that connect customer priorities with Microsofts application modernisation AI agentic and developer platform capabilities.
• Build deep competitive knowledge across the AI and application landscape identifying patterns and sharing insights with field product and engineering teams.
• Partner with account and specialist teams to shape strategic win adoption and expansion plans for complex Apps & AI opportunities.
• Identify emerging customer and market patterns and provide actionable feedback to product and engineering teams.

• Act as an Apps & AI technical thought leader sharing architectures demonstrations best practices and customer learnings across the community.
• Build readiness for peers across application modernisation AI-powered applications agents developer productivity and emerging technologies.
• Identify capability gaps and create reusable content and learning that raises technical depth across the wider SE community.
• Lead and contribute to technical communities events hackathons and mentoring.

• Build strong technical relationships with partners that extend Microsofts Apps & AI capabilities and capacity.
• Identify opportunities to use partners to accelerate application modernisation AI implementation and customer adoption.
• Scale successful customer approaches through partners helping replicate technical wins across customers and the wider Microsoft ecosystem.

• Build trusted relationships with key customer technical decision-makers and influencers helping shape Apps & AI strategy and technical direction.
• Lead complex technical wins spanning applications AI developer platforms and related workloads orchestrating the right Microsoft and partner resources.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers engaging engineering and product teams where required.
• Coach account teams and technical sellers and establish clear engagement and hand-off strategies that accelerate customer decisions implementation and adoption.

• Lead architecture design sessions demonstrations proofs of concept pilots and hackathons that prove the value of modern applications generative AI agents and developer technologies.
• Design end-to-end solutions using Azure application platforms Microsoft Foundry GitHub containers Kubernetes APIs integration data and AI capabilities.
• Adapt architecture patterns for complex customer requirements balancing security Responsible AI scalability resilience performance and cost.
• Create reusable architectures demonstrations and technical assets that allow successful approaches to scale across customers and the wider business.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field and technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud and hybrid technologies including solution architecture application development or modernisation migrations and technology management.
• Experience withmodern application development cloud-native architectures AI-powered applications generative AI copilots or agents and associated developer technologies.
• Relevant Microsoft or industry certifications acrossAzure AI application development architecture security or related technologies.

Solution Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is 36600.00 - 63000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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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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