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# Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and AI Solution Architect

- **Company:** The Certified
- **Location:** Norcross, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $30,000 - $50,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Graph Database, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Log Analysis, Network Architecture, OAuth, Role-Based Access Control, Openid Connect, OpenAI, Zero Trust Network Access, Search Technologies, Microsoft SharePoint, SQL Databases, Enterprise Search, Cloud Monitoring, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Generative AI, Firewalls (Computer Science), Git, Bicep, Cosmos DB, Azure AI, Graph RAG, Terraform, Devsecops, Api Management, Serverless Computing, Container Apps, Key Vault
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ef414272ac15598c

## About the Role

* Ten or more years of enterprise solution-architecture experience, including Microsoft and Azure architecture responsibility
 * Microsoft 365 GCC, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Graph, Entra ID, and Microsoft Purview
 * Azure Functions, Container Apps, App Service, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault
 * Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI
 * Semantic and vector search, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, RAG, GraphRAG, ontologies, and knowledge graphs
 * Entra ID app roles, Azure RBAC, managed identities, Conditional Access, PIM, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect
 * Virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, WAF, and Zero Trust
 * Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Policy, and cost governance
 * Bicep or Terraform, Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD
 * NIST SP 800-53, CUI, data residency, records governance, and secure DevSecOps

Key deliverables

 * Solution Architecture Document and target-state diagrams
 * Security, identity, and network architecture
 * Document Intelligence and data architecture
 * Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, and RAG/GraphRAG architecture
 * DevSecOps, environment, monitoring, and operational architecture, * Government cloud or regulated-environment experience
 * Experience with authorization-aware RAG or GraphRAG
 * Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
 * Azure security, networking, AI, DevOps, or Microsoft 365 certification

## Description

Seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design of a secure and scalable Microsoft 365 GCC and Azure AI platform. This role owns application, integration, data, identity, security, network, document intelligence, enterprise search, generative AI, and DevSecOps architecture.

Responsibilities

 * Define target-state application, integration, data, AI, security, network, and deployment architecture.
 * Design SharePoint Online, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Purview, and Entra ID integrations.
 * Establish Azure hosting, messaging, storage, database, API, monitoring, and environment standards.
 * Own RBAC, managed identities, private networking, encryption, Key Vault, WAF, and Zero Trust architecture.
 * Design Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, RAG, and GraphRAG solutions.
 * Define metadata, ontology, provenance, entity-resolution, relationship, and temporal-lineage models.
 * Establish Azure governance, naming, tagging, monitoring, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD standards.
 * Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction to engineering teams.