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Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Solution Engineer - Apps & AI

Full-TimePosted on 10/19/2026
£61.9k - £133.9k/yr
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's
London, UK
In Person
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience with cloud and hybrid technologies, including solution architecture, application development or modernisation, migrations, and technology management.
  • Experience with modern application development, cloud-native architectures, AI-powered applications, generative AI, copilots or agents, and associated developer technologies.
Responsibilities
  • Develop strategic Apps & AI technical approaches that connect customer priorities with Microsoft’s 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 Microsoft’s 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, together with technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; alternatively, technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience or equivalent experience.
  • Relevant Microsoft or industry certifications across Azure, AI, application development, architecture, security, or related technologies.

About the company

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Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington

Founded

1975

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  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Conference Attendance Budget
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Remote Work Options

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