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INTRODUCTION

The Copilot Studio Architect will provide technical and solution leadership for designing and implementing enterprise-grade conversational AI and agentic solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio. The architect will define solution design, knowledge grounding, security, governance, integration patterns, and implementation standards across Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, Power Platform, and Azure-based services. The role requires a hands-on architect who can work with business stakeholders, security and compliance teams, platform owners, and development teams to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable Copilot Studio solutions.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical design of Copilot Studio-based conversational AI and agent solutions.
• Design secure and governed knowledge experiences using SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 content, Dataverse, or other approved enterprise data sources.
• Define knowledge architecture, metadata, permissions, content lifecycle, and governance patterns for content used by Copilot Studio agents.
• Design agent topics, instructions, prompts, actions, workflows, fallback handling, and user-feedback mechanisms.
• Define grounding, citation, content-filtering, access-control, and responsible AI patterns for enterprise agent solutions.
• Architect integrations with Power Automate, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, APIs, and Azure services where applicable.
• Assess when to use low-code configuration, Power Platform components, custom connectors, APIs, or Azure services to meet business and technical requirements.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and convert business scenarios into solution requirements, agent designs, knowledge categories, and validation criteria.
• Coordinate architecture decisions with security, compliance, enterprise architecture, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Azure, and Power Platform stakeholders.
• Define testing and validation approaches for answer accuracy, source grounding, access controls, workflow execution, exception handling, and user feedback.
• Provide technical direction to developers and review Copilot Studio configurations, prompts, flows, connectors, knowledge sources, and implementation artifacts.
• Identify technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, licensing considerations, data constraints, and recommended mitigation actions.
• Define reusable architecture patterns, governance guidance, and recommendations for scaling Copilot Studio solutions across teams or business functions.
• Produce solution architecture documentation, configuration guidance, integration designs, security considerations, and operational recommendations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, conversational AI, retrieval-grounded experiences, prompt design, responsible AI, and response evaluation.
• Experience with SharePoint Online information architecture, document libraries, lists, metadata, permissions, content approval, and governance.
• Experience designing solutions across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Power Automate, Dataverse, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive.
• Working knowledge of Azure services commonly used with enterprise AI and integration solutions, such as Azure AI services, Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and application integration services.
• Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, security groups, data-loss-prevention policies, connector governance, and Power Platform environment strategy.
• Ability to design secure and maintainable low-code and pro-code integration patterns using Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Microsoft Graph, APIs, connectors, and Azure services.
• Experience facilitating architecture workshops and translating business needs into practical solution designs and implementation roadmaps.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain AI, security, governance, and architecture considerations to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership while collaborating with cross-functional delivery teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Microsoft certifications related to Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure, Azure AI, or Microsoft 365.
• Experience implementing enterprise knowledge-management, employee-experience, helpdesk, service, or conversational AI solutions.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview, sensitivity labels, data retention, records management, audit, or regulated-industry compliance controls.
• Experience with Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI-based patterns, agent orchestration, custom connectors, or Microsoft Graph integrations.
• Experience working in insurance, financial services, healthcare, public sector, or another regulated environment.

COMPENSATION

• The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $57.79/hour - $90.29/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

LOCATION

Birmingham, AL, United States (On-site)

Contract (3 months 4 days)

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.