Azure AI Foundry Architect

Avanade
Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 12-15 yearsSkills: ["Client-facing advisory","Technical leadership","Mentoring","Proposal/estimation collaboration","Architecture governance"]

Drive presales solutioning and technical architecture for generative AI and agentic AI opportunities on Azure AI Foundry. Lead end-to-end solution design including Azure OpenAI Service integration, prompt flow/orchestration, and agent design. Architect RAG solutions with Azure AI Search and enterprise data grounding, define target-state AI platform strategies, and step into delivery for governance, design reviews, and performance/cost optimization. Establish Responsible AI and observability standards, and mentor engineers to build reusable accelerators.

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Job Summary

Drive presales solutioning and technical architecture for generative AI and agentic AI opportunities on Azure AI Foundry. Lead end-to-end solution design including Azure OpenAI Service integration, prompt flow/orchestration, and agent design. Architect RAG solutions with Azure AI Search and enterprise data grounding, define target-state AI platform strategies, and step into delivery for governance, design reviews, and performance/cost optimization. Establish Responsible AI and observability standards, and mentor engineers to build reusable accelerators.
Location: Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead presales solutioning for Azure AI Foundry opportunities, including architecture proposals, effort estimation, solution demos, and client workshops.
  • •Design end-to-end generative AI and agentic AI solution architectures on Azure AI Foundry, including model catalog selection, Azure OpenAI Service integration, prompt flow/orchestration, and agent design.
  • •Architect RAG solutions with grounding data pipelines, vector search/indexing via Azure AI Search, and integration with enterprise data sources.
  • •Define AI platform strategy, target-state architecture, and adoption roadmaps with client stakeholders.
  • •Step into delivery as needed for technical leadership, including architecture governance, design reviews, performance/cost optimization, and production readiness.

Key Requirements

  • •12–15 years in AI/ML, data engineering, or solution architecture with recent hands-on experience architecting on Azure AI Foundry (or Azure AI Studio).
  • •Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry model catalog, prompt engineering/prompt flow, and fine-tuning approaches.
  • •Strong experience designing RAG architectures, including vector/embeddings, Azure AI Search, and enterprise data grounding patterns.
  • •Experience with agentic AI design patterns such as multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling, and frameworks like Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or LangChain/LangGraph.
  • •Strong presales solutioning experience (proposals, estimation, client workshops) and the ability to mentor teams and lead technical delivery quality.
Experience:12-15 yearsAI/MLData engineeringPresalesSolution architectureGenerative AIAgentic AI
Skills:Client-facing advisoryTechnical leadershipMentoringProposal/estimation collaborationArchitecture governance
Certifications:Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Tech Stack:Azure AI FoundryAzure OpenAI ServicePrompt flowOrchestrationAzure AI SearchRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Vector searchSemantic KernelAutoGenLangChainLangGraphPythonREST APIsAzure Machine LearningAzure Cognitive ServicesAzure Data FactorySynapseDatabricksMLOpsLLMOps

Company Brief

Avanade
Global digital innovation and IT services company delivering Microsoft-based cloud, digital and application services. Partners with enterprises to design, build and run business solutions across cloud, data, AI, modern workplace and industry-specific transformations.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2000
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