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We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.\nIn this role you will be the Solution Engineer, Apps & Agents (pre-sales consultant) for your assigned workload and a member of the sales team that consists of Solution Specialist, Customer Success Unit, partners and engineering. In this role you will advance pipeline by assisting the Solution Specialist in qualifying the deal, developing the strategy and inspiring the CxO/Business Decision Maker/Technical Decision Maker. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell and implementation considerations, engineering to assist with emerging technologies and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements, infusing AI to automate business functions, while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer’s solution design endorsement. Once the solution design is secured, you will support the Solution Specialist in finalizing the customer proposal.\nYou will develop relationships with the decision makers and with our customers and position yourself as a trusted advisor in your domain. As a recognized product expert, you are responsible for sharing your technical, industry knowledge and best practices with your peers.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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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.\nResponsibilities\nAdvance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer’s solution design endorsement.\nEngage with the account team to support solution envisioning sessions, deliver hackathons and workshops.\nLead discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value. \nLeverage AI tools to be effective and efficient in identifying opportunities and closing deals faster.\nProactively deliver compelling customer-centric solution demonstrations with domain expertise with emphasis on storytelling, platform & one Microsoft approach.\nAddress solution architecture considerations in collaboration with GBBs and Partners.\nHandle objections by leveraging competitive replacement programs and battle cards.\nAssist in formalizing the customer proposal.\nCollaborate with Partners and Customer Success to align on agreed upon deployment plan and Key Performance Indicators. \nEnsure consumption model for Agents and adoption plan for Power Platform are in place for customers.\nQualifications\nRequired/minimum qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\n6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.\n4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.\nCertification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Power Platform, Copilot Studio).\nSolution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $96,000 - CAD $177,600 per year.\nFind additional pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html\nSolution Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 96,000 $ CAD à 177,600 $ CAD par année. \nPour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html\nCe poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la demande d’accommodement.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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