AI / Azure Solution Architect (Ref: 5864)

Position: AI / Azure Solution Architect

Location: Remote

Type: Consulting/Contract

Rate: DOE

Preferred location: Texas

Seeking a senior AI / Azure Solution Architect with hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise AI solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

Key Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry/Microsoft Foundry.
• Experience designing and implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions.
• Experience with Azure AI Search, embeddings, vector search, and hybrid search.
• Experience developing enterprise knowledge assistants using organizational documents and providing traceable source citations.
• Experience with Copilot Studio, custom AI agents, and agent orchestration.
• Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise data, APIs, and business workflows.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, permission-aware retrieval, and security trimming.
• Experience evaluating LLM solutions for groundedness, hallucinations, prompt injection, and answer accuracy.
• Strong Azure architecture and enterprise solution-design experience.

Preferred: Experience supporting public-sector, pension/retirement, financial services, or investment-management organizations .