AI Solution Architect

The Opportunity

We are looking for anAI Solution Architectto join theCEE IT Digital Solutions teamand lead the design of enterprise AI solutions across the Microsoft ecosystem.

You will define architecture standards engineering best practices and reusable delivery patterns that enable teams to build secure scalable maintainable and cost-effective AI solutions. Working closelywith various people fromdevelopers business analysts project managers security teamstobusiness stakeholders you will help shape technology decisions and accelerate AI adoption across the organization.

This is a hands-on role requiringexpertiseacross the full AI spectrum from low-code solutions built withCopilot Studio and Power Platformto enterprise-grade AI applications built onAzure AI services and modern AI frameworks. You will helpdeterminethe right architecture technology stack and delivery approach for each business scenario.

What You WillDo:

• Define AI standards reference architectures and reusable design patterns that accelerate consistent high-quality solution delivery.

• Design scalable secure and cost-efficient AI architectures and integration strategies.

• Design enterprise AI solutions and agentic architectures including RAG capabilities voice-based agents intelligent automation multi-agent systems orchestration patterns and Human-in-the-Loop processes.

• Guide architecture decisions across Microsoft AI technologies such as Copilot Studio Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI and modern AI development frameworks.

• Remain hands-on through prototyping proof-of-concepts technical reviews and key implementation decisions defining approaches for MVP delivery production deployment and solution scaling.

• Define AI testing evaluation monitoring quality assurance and success measurement approaches.

• Collaborate with governance security and risk teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and responsible AI requirements.

• Support solution shaping technology selection effort estimation and technology adoption decisions including evaluation of emerging AI capabilities and platforms.

• Mentor team members and help grow AI engineering capability across the organization.

What We Are Looking For:

Required Experience

• 8 years of experience in software engineering solution architecture or enterprise application development.

• 4 years of experience designing and delivering AI GenAI intelligent automation or machine learning solutions.

• Strong experience with Copilot Studio Microsoft Foundry Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search.

• Strong understanding of Copilot Studio and enterprise AI solution design.

• Solidexperience with the Azure platform including application hosting integration security identity networking storage and data services.

• Proficiencyin Pythonor other programminglanguagesand experience with modern software development practices.

• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and enterprise applications.

• Hands-on experience with SQL and relational databases.

• Experience with GitHub and source control best practices.

• Strong understanding of LLMs Generative AI prompt engineering vector search embeddings and RAG architectures.

• Experience with agent-based architectures orchestration frameworks and Human-in-the-Loop solutions.

• Knowledge of AI evaluation methods quality measurements monitoring and observability practices.

• Understanding of Responsible AI AI governance and AI cost optimization principles.

• Strong understanding of AI-assisted software development practices including the effective use of tools such as M365 Copilot Cursor AI Claude Code and similar AI-powered engineering assistants.

Decision-Making Capabilities

You should be comfortable making architecture decisions across:

• Low-code vs pro-code approaches.

• Copilot Studio vs custom AI solutions.

• Single-agent vs multi-agent architectures.

• Human-in-the-Loop vs autonomous workflows.

• Trade-offs between speed scalability security and cost.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.

• Fluent written and spoken English.

NiceToHave:

• Power Platformecosystem knowledge

• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline experience.

• Microsoft Graph API.

• LangChain LangGraph AutoGen Microsoft Agent Framework or similar frameworks.

• Vector databases such as Qdrant or ChromaDB.

• DatabricksorMicrosoft Fabric.

• Containers Docker Kubernetes.

• Voice AI and conversational AI platforms.

• Experience with frameworks such as FastAPI Spring Boot or similar.