Principal Cloud & AI Swarm Solution Engineer, U.S. Financial Services

We are looking to hire  a  Principal Cloud & AI Swarm Solution Engineer on the Financial Services Team where you will play a pivotal role in helping our financial enterprise customers understand the value of the full Azure platform — AI, Applications, Infrastructure, and Data — across every stage of the development & deployment lifecycle. You will build trusted relationships with IT executives, architects, and business leaders to shape their Cloud and AI strategy, and you will design secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support business-critical applications and Frontier AI transformation. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers and win their technical decisions on Azure.   You bring deep, cross-workload expertise across Azure — AI, Applications, Infrastructure, and Data — while exploring how to accelerate Frontier transformation.   As you join the team, you will have the opportunity to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their existing platforms to realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.   As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate Agentic AI integration into their development & deployment workflows.   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, empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Own technical sales with customers’ technical decision makers leveraging processes and tools, demos, programs, offers, and drive proof of concepts (POCs) using consultative sales methodology and technical expertise across other Solution Engineers to influence the customer vision. Build trusted advisor relationship with customers’ technical decision makers and use proactive effort to find and understand customers’ pain points and work together with customers to co-develop secure & resilient solution architecture for production scale delivery using Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices including Unified Support and Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) offer for every opportunity. Overcome competitors and technical objections and manage customer escalation with Global Black Belt and engineering team to share insights and best practices for product improvements. Maintain advanced certifications and deep technical expertise across priority workloads such as Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, App Services, Databricks, and Fabric, and contribute to Microsoft’s technical communities by mentoring peers, sharing insights, and serving as a spokesperson in internal and external forums. Maintain up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the Infrastructure technical community. Other Embody our culture and values Qualifications Required Qualifications 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience  OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience  OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience  OR equivalent experience Other Requirements ​This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship Preferred Qualifications 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR