Senior Architect- HR/AI Solutions

Senior Architect- HR/AI Solutions
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Architect with hands on experience with Web apps development in Azure cloud to join one of our Insurance clients on a 6-month contract
Inside IR35
Hybrid
Responsibilities

• Copilot Studio agents: take two to three HR use cases from brief to published agent in weeks, with knowledge sources, actions, authentication and environment promotion in place.
• Working applications: deliver one to two custom HR AI applications end to end on Azure Container Apps, from PoC to production with infrastructure, pipelines and monitoring you built.
• Reference implementations: turn the team's reference architectures into deployable starter templates (Bicep modules, Container Apps environment, API skeleton, auth, logging, agent and RAG scaffolding, Copilot Studio solution template).
• Workbook contributions: implementation checklists, infrastructure request templates for platform teams, test and evaluation approaches for AI features.
• Review-board support: diagrams, component inventories and security details for TADR / ARB packs owned by the Lead Architect.
• Platform coordination: work with Infrastructure, Network and DevOps to provision subnets, private endpoints, identities and pipelines; configure what you can yourself and resolve blockers hands-on.

Experience

• Azure web application delivery: at least one production application you built largely yourself - React (or similar) front end, Python FastAPI or .NET API, PostgreSQL / Azure SQL / Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, background jobs and queues - running on Azure Container Apps or App Service.
• Infrastructure you can build and configure: Container Apps environments and jobs, VNets, subnets and peering, private endpoints and private DNS, NSGs, Application Gateway / internal ingress, Key Vault, managed identities. Able to stand these up from Bicep (or Terraform) and to explain and coordinate the parts owned by central Infrastructure and Network teams.
• Copilot Studio agents, delivered fast: shipped agents using topics and generative answers, knowledge sources (SharePoint, Dataverse, files, websites), actions and connectors to call APIs, Entra authentication, publishing to Teams and web, and environment promotion. Able to take a brief to a working agent in days.
• LLM agents on any platform: designed and shipped agents or RAG features with Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry (preferred) or another LLM platform (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open models) and able to transfer that to Azure - prompt and output-schema design, embeddings and retrieval (Azure AI Search or similar), tool calling, evaluation, PII and prompt-injection guardrails.
• Identity implementation: Microsoft Entra ID sign-in (OIDC), JWT validation, app roles / RBAC, managed identity to PaaS services; app-only vs delegated Graph permissions; SharePoint and Teams access via Microsoft Graph.
• IaC & CI/CD: Bicep (or Terraform), Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker and Azure Container Registry, automated tests, environment promotion.
• Power Apps (canvas or model-driven), Power Automate and Dataverse delivery; custom connectors; Power Platform ALM.
• Document Intelligence / OCR pipelines; Excel and report generation from services.
• Oracle HCM extracts / REST integration; Dynamics 365 / Dataverse Web API.
• Third-party agent platforms (e.g. Lyzr Studio); Microsoft Fabric; pgvector.
• Architecture diagramming (draw.io / Visio / PowerPoint) and TADR / ARB pack experience.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.