Overview

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about AI and modern application development, and energized by solving complex challenges in highly regulated environments? If so, we invite you to join Microsoft as a Senior Solution Engineer – Cloud & AI Apps, focused on Financial Services (FSI) enterprise customers in Singapore.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovation—working with leading banks, insurers, and financial institutions to design and deliver secure, scalable, and compliant AI‑powered applications and intelligent agents. You will collaborate closely with engineering leaders, platform teams, and senior business stakeholders to drive meaningful business impact using Microsoft’s Cloud and AI platform.

Microsoft is transforming the developer experience for AI applications across the entire development lifecycle. With AI Foundry, deep integration with Azure AI, and a growing ecosystem that enables agentic AI development, Microsoft is leading the shift toward AI‑native applications, where intelligent agents accelerate development, operations, and decision‑making. As a Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer, you will help FSI customers adopt these innovations to boost developer productivity, drive innovation, and modernize mission‑critical applications—while meeting stringent security, risk, and regulatory expectations.

As a trusted technical advisor, you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprise AI developers unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s and GitHub’s AI‑powered stack. Through hands‑on engagements such as architecture design sessions, proofs of concept, and hackathons, you will guide customers through secure-by-design solution architectures, influence key technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development and deployment workflows. Ultimately, you will help customers modernize their applications, operationalize AI responsibly, and realize the full value of Microsoft’s Cloud & AI platform.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals—building a culture of trust, inclusion, and continuous learning, where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Customer & Technical Engagement

• Lead and own end-to-end technical engagements with customers, from discovery through architecture design, POCs, and production readiness.
• Partner with account teams to drive and win the customer technical decision by aligning Microsoft Cloud & AI capabilities to customer business outcomes.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, architects, and senior developers across industries.
• Translate complex customer requirements into secure, scalable, and compliant AI application architectures.

Solution Design & Architecture

• Design and present architectures for AI-powered applications and agents, including cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-tier solutions.
• Lead architecture design sessions, demos, hackathons, and proofs of concept showcasing Microsoft AI and application platforms.
• Adapt and extend reference architectures to meet industry, regulatory, and enterprise-scale requirements.
• Position Microsoft solutions competitively by articulating technical differentiation and value.

Cloud & AI Platform Expertise

• Apply deep expertise across Azure AI, application services, and agent-based architectures to solve customer challenges.
• Guide customers on building, deploying, and managing AI apps and intelligent agents at scale.
• Advise on security, governance, identity, and compliance considerations for AI and cloud applications.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to escalate blockers and provide field feedback.

Partner & Ecosystem Collaboration

• Work in a sell-with partner model, collaborating with system integrators and ISVs to scale customer solutions.
• Support partner technical readiness and co-create architectures and POCs where appropriate.
• Identify opportunities to leverage partners to accelerate customer success.

Thought Leadership & Community

• Act as a technical thought leader within the Cloud & AI Apps community.
• Share best practices, architectures, and learnings through internal communities, enablement sessions, and events.
• Continuously upskill and maintain technical readiness aligned to Microsoft Cloud & AI priorities.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture, values, and commitment to inclusive, customer‑obsessed engineering.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting, OR equivalent experience.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-native applications on Azure or equivalent platforms.
• Solid understanding of AI application architectures, including model integration, orchestration, and deployment.
• Proven ability to engage with senior technical and business stakeholders and influence architecture decisions.
• Experience leading architecture design sessions, POCs, demos, or technical workshops.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and confidently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure AI services, cloud application platforms, or agent-based solutions.
• Knowledge of application development patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures).
• Familiarity with security, identity, governance, and compliance considerations in enterprise cloud and AI solutions.
• Experience working with partners in complex customer engagements.
• Relevant cloud or AI certifications are a plus (or willingness to obtain them).

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.