Cloud Architect

Job Title: Azure AI Lead

Location: Chicago, IL

Type: Full-Time Direct Hire W2

Job Description:

We are seeking an accomplished Azure AI Lead with deep expertise across the Microsoft ecosystem Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, Dynamics 365, Azure infrastructure, IaC, and low code/no code platforms such as Power Platform and Copilot Studio.

This role provides technical leadership, architectural oversight, and governance direction to drive secure, scalable, enterprise grade AI solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

AI Architecture & Solution Leadership

• Lead end to end architecture of AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Cognitive Services, Azure OpenAI, and Azure ML.
• Oversee delivery of AI enabled solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Power Pages, and Dataverse.

Azure Infrastructure & IaC Leadership

• Lead the design of cloudnative AI infrastructures using AKS, Azure Functions, App Services, APIM, Event Grid, Azure SQL, Storage, and VNETs.
• Ensure architectural excellence around scalability, performance, identity, and cost optimization

Microsoft Ecosystem, Dynamics 365 & LCNC Integration

• Lead integration of AI capabilities across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365.
• Architect low code/no code driven AI experiences using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio.

AI Engineering, Data & Integration Leadership

• Lead implementation of retrieval based AI systems using Azure AI Search, embeddings, vector indexes, and multi source grounding.
• Establish reusable AI assets prompts, templates, connectors, pipelines—for enterprise reuse.

AI Governance & Responsible AI Ownership

• Define and enforce AI governance frameworks, standards, and compliance controls for GenAI and Azure AI workloads
• Lead or support the AI Center of Excellence (CoE) to promote governance, reuse, and adoption of standardized AI patterns.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in cloud, AI, or solution architecture roles.
• Expertise in Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services, and vector-based retrieval.
• Strong hands-on experience with Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Platform Low Code, No Code tools.
• Programming experience with REST APIs, Graph API, JSON, Python, C#, or TypeScript
• Microsoft certifications: AI 102, AZ 305, DP 100, PL 600, MB 600.