Microsoft Agentic AI Solutions Architect

Job Overview

As a Microsoft Agentic AI Solutions Architect, you will lead the transformation of enterprise operations for Perficient clients by envisioning and implementing AI-powered architecture. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, designing technical architecture solutions, building strong client relationships, and overseeing global development during implementation.

You will provide best-fit architectural solutions, assist in defining project scope and sizing, and anchor Proof of Concept developments. Your expertise will cover solution architecture for business problems, platform integration with third-party services, and designing complex features for clients' needs.

Collaboration with industry talent is key to creating innovative solutions. You will participate in sales pursuits, contribute to thought leadership, mentorship, systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation. This role offers the opportunity to challenge your solutions, consultative, and business skills across diverse industry domains.

Considered part of the Business Unit Senior Leadership team, you may also mentor delivery team members. This position is remote nationally, with light travel (20% or less).

Perficient, a quickly-growing global digital consulting leader, seeks top talent to transform major enterprises and brands. You will work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and join a global community of diverse and knowledgeable colleagues.

Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

• Architect secure, scalable, cross-platform AI solutions, including generative AI and agentic-first, multi-agent orchestrated systems, tailored to meet diverse business objectives.
• Design and implement solutions leveraging Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, multiple language models, and open standards such as Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Lead governance workshops for Copilot Studio and Power Platform with customers, ensuring best practices and compliance.
• Define governance standards for Copilot and Power Platform to ensure robust, compliant solutions.
• Collaborate with organizational change management teams to drive adoption and enablement of M365 Copilot.
• Ensure all solutions align with enterprise architecture patterns and success metrics and stay up to date on emerging cloud security technologies and market trends.
• Champion Microsoft responsible AI guidelines and advocate for responsible AI practices across all projects.
• Secure AI models and data workflows by detecting and resolving vulnerabilities, enforcing data residency and access controls, safeguarding model tuning, tracking changes, maintaining audit trails, and defending against prompt manipulation.
• Apply understanding of core Dynamics 365 products, Agent 365, Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Purview.
• Monitor agent performance and interpret telemetry data to ensure reliability, optimize operations, and drive continuous improvement.

Technical Pre-sales & Practice Growth

• Understand customer needs, assess their current AI posture, and propose tailored AI architectures utilizing Microsoft solutions.
• Demonstrate deep industry knowledge of the Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, and Azure OpenAI and drive opportunities for Microsoft solutions.
• Conduct return-on-investment (ROI) analyses for AI-powered solutions to demonstrate business value.
• Provide thought leadership to grow the Microsoft AI Business Solutions practice, helping drive revenue and deliver excellence.
• Actively participate in new business pursuits, collaborating with management and sales teams to develop proposals and deliver compelling client presentations.
• Contribute to project planning and proposals, including estimating level of effort, resource requirements, schedules, and budgets.
• Develop and refine best practices, templates, and demos to continuously improve the Microsoft AI Business Solutions practice.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the Microsoft Business Applications ecosystem.
• 5+ years in consulting services with experience leading complex engagements as the senior delivery resource.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, and Azure OpenAI.
• Functional expertise in Dynamics 365, Agent 365, Purview, Entra ID, and Defender.
• Understanding of C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, and PowerShell.
• Guided end-to-end implementation of AI-centric solutions, ensuring security, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Experience using source control management tools such as Visual Studio, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
• Systems integration and ETL implementation expertise.
• Managed projects using Scrum, SAFe, waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.
• Supported sales through discovery meetings, demos, strategy sessions, and responses to RFPs/RFQs.
• Built business cases and communicated client-specific value propositions as a trusted advisor.
• Fostered collaboration, resolved challenges, and built strong client relationships.
• Led technical discussions with business and technical decision makers, detailing specifications, product roadmaps, deployment, and integrations.
• Promoted and championed the adoption of AI technologies, including M365 Copilot.
• Designed and prototyped AI components to showcase transformative capabilities.
• Strong technical writing, documentation, and verbal communication skills.

Certifications & Education

• Active Microsoft certifications: PL-200, PL-600, AB-900, AB-730, AB-731, AB-100, and others.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.

Who We Are

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy, imagining, creating, engineering, and running digital transformation solutions. We help clients exceed expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business with unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities.

What We Believe

At Perficient, we challenge, champion, and celebrate our people, fostering a collaborative culture that values every voice. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Key skills/competency

• AI Architecture
• Generative AI
• Agentic AI Systems
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Copilot Studio
• Azure AI Services
• Azure OpenAI
• Solution Design
• Technical Pre-sales
• Client Consulting