Senior Microsoft AI Engineer

• Build and maintain AI assistants and agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry.
• Identify practical opportunities for Microsoft 365 Copilot and help teams use it effectively.
• Connect AI solutions to relevant business knowledge and systems while respecting permissions and data boundaries.
• Develop Power Automate workflows with reliable validation, exception handling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Integrate Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Dataverse, Microsoft Graph, external APIs, and other business systems.
• Implement custom connectors or supporting code where the project requires them.
• Evaluate AI output quality, grounding, failure behavior, latency, and operating costs.
• Establish appropriate human review and approval steps for consequential automated actions.
• Independently administer our Microsoft 365, Azure, and Power Platform environments, including users, groups, roles, application registrations, permissions, and service connections.
• Configure and manage GitHub-connected Power Platform solutions, including repositories, authentication, source control, branching, reviews, and deployment workflows.
• Manage the solution lifecycle across development, testing, and production, including solution dependencies, environment variables, connection references, release verification, and recovery procedures.
• Maintain secure application identities, credentials, and access configurations with clear ownership and appropriate permissions.
• Monitor platform health, investigate failures, maintain operational documentation, and control licensing and cloud expenditure.
• Translate business requirements into clear tasks, delivery milestones, and verifiable acceptance criteria.
• Manage project scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate outsourced developers, review their deliverables, and maintain clear ownership.
• Mentor colleagues through practical demonstrations, reviews, and knowledge transfer.
• Keep solutions maintainable and proportionate to the problem and startup budget.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering production solutions using Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and Power Automate.
• Practical understanding of Microsoft 365 Copilot and its use in business workflows.
• Experience building AI agents or assistants connected to business data, tools, and APIs.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated answers and actions, including handling unreliable or unsupported output.
• Strong knowledge of Power Automate cloud flows, connectors, expressions, approvals, and troubleshooting.
• Experience integrating SharePoint, Teams, Dataverse, Microsoft Graph, or comparable business platforms.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, application permissions, authentication, and secure credential handling.
• Ability to write and review supporting code or scripts, for example in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or PowerShell.
• Proven experience independently administering a company's Microsoft environment, with responsibility for reliable operation and ongoing improvement.
• Hands-on experience configuring and managing Power Platform solutions connected to GitHub.
• Practical experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD workflows for Microsoft solutions.
• Strong understanding of environment separation, managed and unmanaged solutions, dependencies, connection references, and environment-specific configuration.
• Previous responsibility for technical project delivery, including planning and stakeholder communication.
• Proven experience leading developers, mentoring colleagues, or coordinating distributed contributors.
• The ability to take ownership of technical problems, communicate their business impact, and carry improvements through to a verified result.
  • Ability to work independently, explain technical decisions clearly, and prioritize within a limited startup budget.