AI Solutions Architect

Role Overview

• Responsible for designing and leading the delivery of enterprise AI solutions built on Microsoft's AI platform.
• Work closely with customers, consultants, developers, project managers and Microsoft.
• Define solution architectures that enable organisations to adopt AI securely, responsibly and at scale.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers and provide technical leadership within CPS.
• Help shape AI strategy, propositions, delivery standards and reusable solution accelerators.
• Provide architectural leadership across the full project lifecycle, from pre-sales and discovery through to solution design, governance, implementation and production deployment.

Requirements

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise AI solutions using Microsoft technologies.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Copilot Studio, Agent Builder and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Strong understanding of Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps and Dataverse.
• Working knowledge of Azure AI services, Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI capabilities.
• Experience designing integrations across Microsoft 365, business applications and external systems.
• Strong understanding of solution architecture principles across data, security, governance and scalability.
• Experience designing secure and responsible AI solutions within enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), grounding strategies and knowledge architectures.
• Experience facilitating discovery workshops and translating business requirements into technical solution designs.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, consulting and communication skills.
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities, solution design and technical estimation.
• Microsoft Fabric
• OneLake
• Data Engineering
• Data Warehousing
• Real-Time Intelligence
• Power BI
• Azure AI
• Azure AI Foundry
• Azure OpenAI
• AI Agents
• Prompt Flows
• Model orchestration
• Agentic AI Architecture
• Multi-agent systems
• Agent orchestration
• Human-in-the-loop patterns
• Agent governance and observability
• AI Engineering Concepts
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Semantic search
• Vector databases
• Grounding strategies
• Knowledge architectures
• Enterprise Architecture
• Identity and access management
• Security and compliance
• Environment strategy
• DevOps and deployment approaches
• Experience working within a Microsoft Partner organisation.

Tech Stack

• Azure

Benefits

• 9 Day Fortnight – three day weekend every other week
• Vitality – Private Medical Insurance
• YuLife – Income Protection and employee discounts benefits
• Health Assured – Employee Wellbeing Support
• Medicash – Health Cash Plan
• 25 days holiday – increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years and to 28 days after 5 years
• Have your birthday as an additional day off from work. Can be adjusted to be taken within a week of your birthday if that is your preference
• Quarterly and annual star performer awards and rewarded with prizes – voted for by your peers and colleagues
• Annual professional training budget to support your Personal Development Plan
• Award winning culture http://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/best-workplaces/besthttp://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/best-workplaces/best-workplaces-in-the-ukworkplaces-in-the-uk
• Fortnightly ‘Engagement’ survey to assess staff Happiness levels
• Quarterly company meetings with associated social/team building events
• Workplace pension scheme which goes beyond the standard schemes
• No arduous annual appraisal process – your line manager will hold a 1-2-1 with you quarterly, as a minimum, to review and realign your objectives and your PDP as appropriate
• Free on-site parking, subject to availability
• Long service recognition at 5, 10, 15, 20 years and onwards
• Unlimited hot and cold refreshments throughout the day in the Marlow office
• Complimentary fruit & snacks
• Monthly Fat/Fit Fridays! (pre-pandemic)
• Free chair massages
• head, arms, shoulders and back (pre-pandemic)
• Regular social activities such as a summer event