Softcom Systems Inc ยท 1 day ago
Azure AI Architect
United States
Contract
Remote
Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expSoftcom Systems Inc is looking for an Azure AI Architect to drive AI solutions from ideation to implementation. The ideal candidate will provide architectural guidance, support partners in building AI solutions, and help improve the platform through community engagement and documentation.
Employee BenefitsRecruitingStaffing Agency
Hiring Manager
Bhanusha N
Responsibilities
Support Partners in building their Agents Advisory practices and designing building and deploying sophisticated agents for their Enterprise Customers utilizing Copilot Studio Power Platform M365 Agents SDK and Copilot APIs
Provide architectural guidance and advice to proactively help System integrators as the build customer solutions to avoid issues while removing roadblocks when encountered
Help improve the platform by identifying product gaps and representing the voice of the customer within the Product team
Help scale the platform by regularly publishing white papers blogs best practice guidance videos and tools to help others in the community learn from your expertise
Work closely with the Microsoft sales field partners CSAs services operations customer success teams to help drive overall success for the System Integrator Partners and Microsoft
Support partners and customers in US and EMEA time zones
Ability to guide junior developers in the team Onshore and Offshore
Provide the Weekly status report and keep all stakeholders updated on project status
Qualification
Required
12 years in software solution engineering with 5 years as Architect Lead/Principal level
Proven track record driving AI solutions from ideation to implementation in enterprise environments
Expertise in RAG architectures and LLM application design, prompting, orchestration tool use, grounding
Hands on with Azure AI services
Azure OpenAI Service assistants, LLM APIs, prompt engineering, cost/perf controls
Azure AI Search, vector search, hybrid retrieval, custom scoring/reranking
Azure ML training, deployment, model registry, pipelines
Cognitive Services: Language, Speech, Vision
RFP/Pre Sales experience, solutioning, proposal authoring, estimations, and customer workshops
Microsoft technologies: Copilot Studio, Power Platform, M365 Agents SDK, and Copilot APIs, Azure PaaS, GitHub, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus
Solid grounding in security/compliance, identity, Entra ID, VNET, PE, Key Vault, encryption, data governance, Responsible AI practices
Excellent stakeholder management and documentation skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong attention to detail and a head for problem solving
Copilot Studio: Authoring topics, tools, connectors, and multi-channel deployment
Power Automate: Flow design, HTTP actions, Custom connectors, throttling/timeouts handling
Azure AI Search: Hybrid/vector retrieval, enrichment, reranking, and integration with copilots
ALM (Power Platform): Solutions, managed/unmanaged environments, CI/CD pipelines
Security & Governance: AAD/Entra authentication, environment variables, DLP policies
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (CSA, architects, governance leads)
Clear communication for technical and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Preferred
Azure AI Search Integration
Design and implement hybrid/vector retrieval pipelines for enterprise RAG scenarios
Configure semantic index and secure knowledge grounding for copilots
Implement monitoring via Azure Application Insights and enforce Responsible AI principles
Working with Dataverse and Power Platform ALM and governance
Implementing observability (Azure Monitor, App Insights)
Exposure to Responsible AI principles and enterprise compliance frameworks
Familiarity with Agent Factory or similar operationalization frameworks
Microsoft certifications in Power Platform, Azure AI, or Copilot Studio
Company
Softcom Systems Inc
Softcom Systems Inc is headquartered in Princeton, NJ serving the US market for the last 20 years.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Mani Yalala
Chief Executive Officer
Jerry Thompson
Talent Engagement Partner (Business Development)
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