Senior Microsoft AI & Automation Architect

The successful candidate will translate business requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions, lead delivery from discovery through production deployment, establish reusable engineering standards, and serve as a technical escalation point for Microsoft AI Services. Requirements

Microsoft AI and Automation

• Design, build, and deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio solutions, including agents, actions, connectors, topics, and workflows.
• Develop business applications using Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and related Power Platform services.
• Integrate Microsoft solutions with SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, APIs, and external business systems.
• Build AI applications and agent-based solutions using Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI.
• Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions that securely connect enterprise data to AI experiences.

Microsoft Fabric and Data Solutions

• Design and deploy Microsoft Fabric environments and workloads.
• Build data pipelines, lakehouses, semantic models, and analytics solutions using Fabric, OneLake, Data Factory, and Power BI.
• Implement appropriate security, identity, governance, lifecycle management, and operational controls across Microsoft data environments.
• Connect Fabric data products to AI agents, workflows, applications, and reporting experiences.

Production Engineering and Support

• Establish development, test, and production deployment practices for Microsoft AI and Power Platform solutions.
• Implement source control, CI/CD, release management, environment strategy, monitoring, logging, and support documentation.
• Troubleshoot application, workflow, identity, integration, and data issues across the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Create reusable architectures, templates, accelerators, and deployment procedures for recurring client needs.
• Support production incidents and serve as a senior technical escalation point.

Client Delivery and Technical Leadership

• Lead technical discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, estimation, and implementation planning.
• Present solution architectures and technical recommendations to client and internal stakeholders.
• Lead implementation work from proof of concept through production deployment and operational handoff.
• Mentor consultants and engineers while helping establish Microsoft delivery standards for the AI Services practice.
• Partner with sales, solution architecture, security, service delivery, and client teams to support successful outcomes.

• 5+ years of experience designing or developing Microsoft cloud solutions.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Power Platform, including Power Apps and Power Automate.
• Experience deploying and supporting enterprise applications or data workloads in production.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or closely related Microsoft services.
• Experience integrating systems using REST APIs, Microsoft Graph, connectors, webhooks, or event-driven patterns.
• Strong understanding of Entra ID, managed identities, secrets management, role-based access control, and environment security.
• Working knowledge of Python, SQL, JSON, Git, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience working directly with clients and translating business requirements into technical designs.
• Ability to independently lead technical workstreams and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Consulting, managed services, or Microsoft partner experience.
• Experience supporting regulated, security-conscious, or multi-client environments.
• Experience packaging repeatable solutions into reusable delivery accelerators.
• Knowledge of application monitoring, cost management, governance, and production support models.
• One or more relevant Microsoft certifications in Power Platform, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure development, or Azure architecture.