Innovation Hub Solution Engineer - Microsoft Canada, Greater Toronto

About the role

The Microsoft Innovation Hub empowers customers to overcome their business challenges through innovative engagements that integrate multiple areas of expertise. As an Innovation Hub Solution Engineer in the Microsoft Innovation Hub, focusing on Application Innovation, you will merge business and technical requirements to craft comprehensive solutions, working seamlessly with various stakeholders. This is a 100% Microsoft onsite only position located in Greater Toronto, ON.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals based on values of respect, integrity, and accountability.

Your impact

In this technical capacity, you will conduct discovery sessions to understand customer needs, provide strategic recommendations, implement robust AI transformation solutions, and optimize the integration of various technologies and services. Your key responsibilities include:

• Delivering customer engagements: Prepare and deliver technical engagements including strategy sessions, envisioning workshops, architecture design sessions and rapid prototyping to demonstrate key capabilities, validate against identified risks and finalize technology choices.
• AI Transformation Leadership: Be the trusted voice within the business and for customers on the latest AI platform and technology trends, guiding their transformation journeys.
• Strategic Vision and Planning: Own and execute a clear strategic vision for AI transformation initiatives on a set of targeted accounts, aligning with organizational goals and customer needs.
• Solution Design and Architecture: Develop comprehensive solution architectures based on patterns and practices that are tied to customer requirements and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure and optimized for performance.
• Cross Platform Collaboration: Adopt a holistic approach to integrate capabilities across the entire cloud platform, identifying synergies and optimizing cross-platform integration.
• Technical Depth: Maintain and grow expertise in AI solutions that will include services like AI Foundry or Fabric Data platform, and develop skills in AI management and security, real-time intelligence, and application architecture.
• Technical Sales and Sales Leadership: Act as a strategic change agent within the business to shape Microsoft's programs and engineering offerings while championing Hub engagement success.

What you'll bring

Candidates must meet specific educational and professional background criteria to qualify for this engineering role:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ 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 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience as a Solutions Architect (or equivalent) including deep practical and hands-on experience with software architecture and development.
• 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience or equivalent experience (preferred).
• 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management (preferred).
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, or Architecture.
• Proven Enterprise Architect experience designing and implementing large-scale, complex solutions.
• Consultative selling experience providing expert guidance and strategic recommendations.
• Design Thinking experience delivering ideation, context analysis, or problem framing.
• High proficiency in GitHub, CI/CD and DevOps automation, Python or equivalent programming language, and Azure AI Foundry and Agentic AI development.

Perks and benefits

Microsoft provides competitive compensation and comprehensive support for qualified employees across Canada:

• Typical base pay range across Canada for Solution Engineering IC5 is CAD $128,000 - CAD $222,400 per year.
• Equal opportunity employer commitments with support for family or medical care leave and religious or disability accommodations during the application process.