2 days ago
Calgary, Canada or Vancouver, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Lead technical customer engagements involving cloud application development, platform engineering, Azure, GitHub, and generative or agentic AI adoption.
- Conduct architecture discussions, architectural reviews, proofs of concept, MVPs, environment setup, and implementation oversight.
- Advocate for customers by channeling feedback to engineering teams, analyzing application patterns, and removing technical adoption blockers.
- Deliver or recommend technical discussions, workshops, cloud readiness activities, and skills development.
- Ensure deployed solutions meet performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve customer outcomes, increase cloud and support consumption, and maximize Microsoft investments.
- Build trusted relationships with technical and business stakeholders, partners, executives, architects, platform engineers, and developers.
- Resolve technical challenges through subject matter expertise, escalation processes, and knowledge of Microsoft and competing products.
- Share technical insights through internal communities and external events, and contribute to reusable intellectual property and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field plus 2+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in a customer-facing role is preferred.
- At least 2 years of experience working on technical projects is preferred.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, technology management, and enterprise-scale technical solutions.
- Proficiency in one or more of .NET, C#, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Python, or PHP and related frameworks.
- Experience with Azure application platforms, scalable architectures, API management, serverless technologies, containers, and microservices.
- Experience creating proofs of concept and minimum viable products that lead to production deployments.
- Cloud technical certification, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, or a security certification, is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time leave-of-absence backfill assignment expected to continue until the employee returns, currently expected around October 2027; continued placement in this specific role is not guaranteed afterward.
- Typical base pay range in Canada is CAD $69,600-$132,500 per year.
- Microsoft offers career development opportunities and equal employment opportunity.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.