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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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The Principal Solution Engineer works with multinational enterprise customers to achieve business goals using Azure as their primary platform. This role involves leading complex technical engagements, discovering unmet needs, and creating practical solutions that deliver business value. You will own the technical direction of opportunities, aligning stakeholders and driving decisions through workshops and demonstrations. Key responsibilities include modernizing applications using cloud-native approaches, guiding software delivery with GitHub and GitHub Copilot, and shaping intelligent applications using Microsoft Foundry, Copilot technologies, and Microsoft Fabric. You must design end-to-end architectures spanning infrastructure, networking, identity, security, data, and AI. The role requires an enterprise-architecture mindset to balance business value, security, reliability, and cost while building trusted relationships with developers, architects, and executive leadership to overcome technical barriers.
Modernize customer applications using cloud-native approaches and tools like GitHub and GitHub Copilot.
Build prototypes and demonstrations to test customer ideas and guide secure AI adoption.
Connect technical choices to business outcomes to build a clear case for customer investment.
Create reusable architecture patterns and approaches from customer engagements to coach colleagues and account teams.
Qualify technical opportunities by identifying unmet needs and aligning them with the customer's transformation strategy.
What we're looking for
Master's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field and 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field and 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience (preferred).
6+ years of experience with cloud and hybrid, on-premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and technology management (preferred).
Certification in relevant technologies such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, or Architecture (preferred).
Experience with Azure, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot technologies, and Microsoft Fabric.
Ability to lead complex engagements, build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, and design end-to-end cloud architectures.
Remote (New York, NY)28 days ago
$130,900–$251,900
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Azure AI Foundry
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Copilot Studio
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SQL
Cosmos DB
PostgreSQL
Containers
AKS
Serverless
DevOps
Agentic DevOps
RAG
LLM