Solution Engineer, Cloud and AI Platform - Apps

Are you passionate about modern applications, AI-powered engineering, and helping enterprise customers build secure, scalable, production-ready solutions?   Join Microsoft as a Cloud & AI Platform (CAIP) Apps Solution Engineer supporting strategic enterprise customers across Australia and New Zealand. In this technical sales role, you will partner with customers to modernize applications, accelerate AI-infused app development, and turn business priorities into real production outcomes on Azure.   You will help customers design and implement cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and agentic workflows that combine Azure application platform services, Azure AI Foundry, and GitHub Copilot. You will partner across ANZ and broader APAC engagements, extending technical leadership through workshops, design sessions, hands-on labs, and customer acceleration activities.   As a trusted technical advisor, you will:   Lead Apps + AI transformation conversations with business and technical decision-makers   Drive end-to-end scenarios across application modernization, intelligent apps, APIs, integration, and agentic workflows   Translate Microsoft's Apps + AI platform - including Azure app services, Azure AI Foundry, and GitHub Copilot - into measurable customer outcomes   This role requires deep expertise in Apps + AI (400-level) and working knowledge of data platform, governance, and AI grounding patterns (200-300 level) required for production intelligent applications.

Drive technical sales and solution design  Lead customer engagements using demos, PoCs, architecture workshops, hands-on labs, and hackathons to land scalable Apps + AI solutions.    Own application modernization and intelligent app strategy conversations  Guide customers across cloud-native architecture, app modernization, APIs, microservices, containers, integration patterns, and AI-infused application design.   Accelerate production adoption  Run MVPs, design sessions, and technical enablement to move customers from experimentation to secure, governed, production-ready implementation.    Build trusted advisor relationships  Partner with application leaders, enterprise architects, platform teams, and engineering teams to co-design resilient, secure, observable, and scalable solutions.    Drive GitHub Copilot and developer productivity outcomes  Drive GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering scenarios, helping customers improve developer productivity, software quality, and AI-powered software delivery practices.    Resolve blockers and influence roadmap  Address technical objections, unblock customer adoption, and collaborate with product engineering to improve Microsoft offerings.  Maintain deep technical expertise (Apps + AI-first focus)  Expert (400-level) in:  Azure application platform services, including App Service, Azure Functions, Container Apps, AKS, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus, and Logic Apps  Application modernization patterns, including cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, resiliency, observability, and security  Azure AI Foundry / Azure AI services for intelligent applications, copilots, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled business processes  AI application architecture patterns, including agent orchestration, MCP implementations, tool integration, grounding strategies, and production AI application lifecycle management  GitHub and GitHub Copilot patterns for AI-assisted software delivery, developer productivity, and secure engineering practices  Advanced/Working level (200-300 level) in:  Data services and governance concepts that enable intelligent applications, including Azure databases, Fabric, Databricks, Purview, and data grounding patterns  Data grounding, retrieval-augmented generation, governance, and analytics patterns that support production AI applications  Represent Microsoft externally