Digital Solution Engineer
Microsoft· Digital Solution Engineering
SingaporeFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Solution Engineer to support AI-centric startups and software customers on Microsoft Azure, driving architectural decisions, demos, pilots, and production-readiness plans to translate customer goals into measurable Azure usage and platform adoption.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy for assigned customers across the adoption journey (discovery to close, MVP, pilot, production adoption and scaling).
- Lead architecture-led customer conversations across Azure AI, application innovation, data platforms, developer tools, cloud operations, governance, and security topics.
- Design end-to-end solutions using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, AI agents, AKS, containers, serverless, APIs, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Power BI, and GitHub.
- Deliver demos, whiteboarding sessions, architecture workshops, POCs, and technical validations demonstrating business value and path to production.
- Translate customer goals into decision criteria, success plans, implementation roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Identify and remove technical blockers (architecture gaps, security concerns, capacity/quota, migration risks, integration challenges, operational readiness).
- Partner with account executives, specialists, and customer success teams to support pipeline, milestone hygiene, and forecast quality.
- Differentiate Microsoft by positioning Azure as trusted, secure, scalable, integrated for AI-native software companies.
- Capture reusable patterns and customer insights to scale the business globally.
- Support customer scenarios: AI-native app development, cloud-native platform scaling, data-driven modernization, SMB/software company growth, technical acceleration.
Qualifications
- Experience in technical pre-sales, solution engineering, cloud architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or equivalent customer-facing technical role.
- Ability to influence CTOs, founders, engineering leaders, architects, and product leaders.
- Hands-on understanding of cloud architecture, security, reliability, scalability, integration, and operations.
- Practical experience with AI, data, analytics, application modernization or developer platform solutions on Azure or comparable clouds.
- Experience creating demos, prototypes, POCs, pilots or MVPs leading to technical decisions and production adoption.
- Strong communication, storytelling, collaboration; ability to drive consensus without direct authority.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
Required:Technical pre-salesAzure / Cloud platform experienceAI, data, analytics, or developer platform solutionsDemos/POCs/PrototypingStakeholder influence & communication
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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