MCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.
The Americas Scaling AI Solution Engineering team accelerates Azure growth by helping high-potential digital-native and startup customers design, validate, and productionize secure, scalable AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The team provides deep technical leadership across Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, data, applications, infrastructure, and security, converting customer priorities into funded workloads, measurable consumption, and durable strategic partnerships.
The Solution Engineer will serve as a senior technical advisor for priority Americas customers, leading technical discovery, architecture, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and production-readiness engagements. This role will translate complex business and AI requirements into executable Azure solution plans, remove technical blockers, influence customer decision makers, and accelerate time to production and Azure consumption.
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, innovate to 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
- Captures core customer compete knowledge across solution areas and delivers back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop compete strategies.
- Provides strategic, technical, and partner input based on Microsoft capability to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner and competitor knowledge.
- Works with account teams to shape strategic customer win strategy and tailor unique Microsoft value messaging to audience.
- Monitors and analyzes action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage.
- Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, and resources (e.g., unified action tracker [UAT], technical feedback platform) across territories so they can be added and prioritized.
- Represents the customer to product teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory.
Scale Customer Engagements
- Engages with customer technical and business decision makers, and identifying customer needs and issues proactively through technical discovery.
- Leads and ensures customer needs are met by showcasing suitable Microsoft solutions anchored in insights and business value, and influences customer technical buy-in. Utilizes rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies), and leverages knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], co-sell partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack). Searches for customer references to use in engagements.
- Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution or portfolio expertise, and deep technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
- Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution, or portfolio expertise, and technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
- Leverages knowledge of programs and investments (e.g., Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], exec briefing center, partner workshops) and proactively engages with engineering, product, and support teams to remediate blockers.
- Helps ensure consistency and quality of engagements through adherence of standards and best practices (e.g., managed service provider [MSP], managed certified professional [MCP]). Utilizes common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization to identify and engage customers in new opportunities. Actively seeks and incorporates feedback on customer impact to increase capabilities.
- Proactively helps to maximize impact of customer engagements by executing on solutions to blockers.
Scale Through Partners
- Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by acting as liaison between the partner and team and shares visibility on partner resources and processes. Supports the development and maintenance of relationships with pre-sale team and partners. Self-identifies and selects top 5 to 10 go-to partners on proactive and early engagement in opportunities.
Solution Design and Proof
- Applies and customizes existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., pre-built demos, architectural design sessions [ADS], proof of concept [POC] sessions with partners) of solutions based on multiple Microsoft products through early stage engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards..
- Presents, applies, and customizes architecture patterns to partners or customers or businesses and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft Solutions.
Technical Leadership
- Monitors and responds to internal and external tech community posts, attends community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc., and acts as a mentor for their technology area. Contributes and participates in Customer Executive Briefing Center sessions. Shares best practices internally on community calls and drives recognition of Microsoft cloud solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.
- Conducts group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, Webinars) or leverages existing scale enablement programs to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits across Microsoft solutions/products.
- Grows domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture. Builds their own readiness plan and proactively identifies learning gaps.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 8+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Microsoft Office 365; Power BI; Azure Administrator, Architecture, and Development exams; Cloud Platform Technologies; Information Security; Architecture).
Digital Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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.
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