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Posted Mar 12, 2026

Associate Distinguished Engineer – Enterprise Architect, Azure AI

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Job Description: • Architect the AI Landing Zone, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Copilot services. • Ensure the platform is secure, compliant, and designed to scale across academic, administrative, research, and healthcare environments. • Define and enforce governance, identity/SSO integration, and infrastructure requirements. • Implement architectural controls to support FERPA, accessibility (WCAG/508), privacy, and institutional policy requirements. • Design integration patterns with core client systems (SIS, LMS, SSO, APIs, data sources). • Collaborate with the Data/Technology Lead to define secure data pipelines, connectors, and access patterns. • Evaluate technology options (Azure OpenAI, Copilot, Power Platform, Fabric) for each use case. • Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards, cost transparency mechanisms, and lifecycle management processes. • Review prototypes, solution designs, integrations, and deployments for technical completeness and architectural alignment. • Collaborate closely with the Functional Consultant and project manager for technical sequencing and risk mitigation. Requirements: • Expertise in cloud/enterprise architecture, preferably across Azure AI services. • Strong understanding of identity, security, compliance frameworks, and data governance. • Experience designing scalable AI or cloud platforms and integrating enterprise systems. • Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, optimize performance, and implement MLOps/CI-CD. • Strong communication skills for translating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • Good to have skills: AI Application Solution Design (Strong), Metasonic, Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Expert), Microsoft Fabric (Expert). Benefits: • Health insurance • Retirement plans • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development • Bonuses Apply Now Apply Now