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Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Apps - Ireland at Microsoft

Required Skills

pythonjava.netai/mlcloud-nativecontainerizationapismicroservicesresponsible ai

About the Role

This role is a Solution Engineer focused on AI applications and cloud technologies at Microsoft, targeting mid-market customers. Responsibilities include driving technical sales, leading hands-on engagements like hackathons and PoCs, and building trusted relationships with developers to design secure, scalable architectures. The position requires deep proficiency in AI Foundry, cloud-native development, and AI management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
  • Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
  • Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
  • Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
  • Maintain deep proficiency in AI Foundry & App architecture and App architecture/cloud native dev.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

  • 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent education/experience.
  • Proficient on full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET).
  • Proficient for AI & ML models (e.g., Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing, etc.).
  • Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Nice to Have:

  • 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
  • Proficient on Agentic framework, AI Management & Security (e.g., Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestrator, monitoring).
  • Skilled with 1 or more frameworks, tools, languages (e.g., GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools).
  • Preferred additional language: Finnish.

Benefits & Perks

  • Industry leading healthcare