Director of Solution Engineering, Cloud & AI Platforms at Microsoft
Mountain View, CA
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Aug 12, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior people-management role leading a distributed organization of Solution Engineering Managers and Solution Engineers focused on Microsoft's Cloud and AI Platform portfolio. The position owns technical strategy, organizational health, and business growth across AI, data, infrastructure, application modernization, and developer platforms, while building executive-level relationships with CIOs, CTOs, and Chief AI Officers at large enterprise customers.
Principal level · 10+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 15, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Location is not specified in the posting; no CBSA or state could be determined. The role is described as leading a geographically distributed organization, suggesting it may be remote-eligible or tied to a major Microsoft hub, but the posting does not confirm either.
The degree requirement accepts a Master's + 6 years, a Bachelor's + 8 years, or 10+ years of experience with no degree — so no formal degree is hard-gated.
The posting explicitly states the role is not eligible for visa sponsorship and requires existing US work authorization.
The 10+ years figure is the highest stated overall experience threshold and is used as the overall years minimum; the 5+ years people management requirement is captured as a skill since it is a distinct, named gate.
Most skills named in the posting are domain areas (cloud, AI, data, security, etc.) rather than specific named tools or platforms. No concrete product names (e.g., Azure, Copilot, Kubernetes) are explicitly required in the posting text, so the skills list reflects the domain-level gates the JD actually states.
The alternative occupation reflects that this role has a strong pre-sales/solution engineering technical dimension, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly managing a large organization of managers and engineers, making 11-3021 the right primary code.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Pre-sales / technical consulting, People management.
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