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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.\nWorking 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.\nResponsibilities\nBuild Strategy\nDevelop strategic Apps & AI technical approaches that connect customer priorities with Microsoft’s application modernisation, AI, agentic and developer platform capabilities.\nBuild deep competitive knowledge across the AI and application landscape, identifying patterns and sharing insights with field, product and engineering teams.\nPartner with account and specialist teams to shape strategic win, adoption and expansion plans for complex Apps & AI opportunities.\nIdentify emerging customer and market patterns and provide actionable feedback to product and engineering teams.\nEducation\nAct as an Apps & AI technical thought leader, sharing architectures, demonstrations, best practices and customer learnings across the community.\nBuild readiness for peers across application modernisation, AI-powered applications, agents, developer productivity and emerging technologies.\nIdentify capability gaps and create reusable content and learning that raises technical depth across the wider SE community.\nLead and contribute to technical communities, events, hackathons and mentoring.\nLeverage Partner Ecosystem\nBuild strong technical relationships with partners that extend Microsoft’s Apps & AI capabilities and capacity.\nIdentify opportunities to use partners to accelerate application modernisation, AI implementation and customer adoption.\nScale successful customer approaches through partners, helping replicate technical wins across customers and the wider Microsoft ecosystem.\nScale Customer Engagements\nBuild trusted relationships with key customer technical decision-makers and influencers, helping shape Apps & AI strategy and technical direction.\nLead complex technical wins spanning applications, AI, developer platforms and related workloads, orchestrating the right Microsoft and partner resources.\nProactively identify and resolve technical blockers, engaging engineering and product teams where required.\nCoach account teams and technical sellers and establish clear engagement and hand-off strategies that accelerate customer decisions, implementation and adoption.\nSolution Design and Proof\nLead architecture design sessions, demonstrations, proofs of concept, pilots and hackathons that prove the value of modern applications, generative AI, agents and developer technologies.\nDesign end-to-end solutions using Azure application platforms, Microsoft Foundry, GitHub, containers, Kubernetes, APIs, integration, data and AI capabilities.\nAdapt architecture patterns for complex customer requirements, balancing security, Responsible AI, scalability, resilience, performance and cost.\nCreate reusable architectures, demonstrations and technical assets that allow successful approaches to scale across customers and the wider business.\nQualifications\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s 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.\nExperience with cloud and hybrid technologies, including solution architecture, application development or modernisation, migrations, and technology management.\nExperience with modern application development, cloud-native architectures, AI-powered applications, generative AI, copilots or agents, and associated developer technologies.\nRelevant Microsoft or industry certifications across Azure, AI, application development, architecture, security, or related technologies.\nSolution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 61,900.00 - £ 105,500.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.\nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html\nSolution Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 79,700.00 - £ 133,900.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.\nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft 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. 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