Azure AI Foundry Lead Architect (Remote Contract)

Consult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking an Azure AI Foundry SME/Consultant to lead enterprise Azure AI capability build for a major professional services client. Fully remote, 6-12 month contract, £450-£500/day outside IR35, with strong emphasis on knowledge transfer to the client's permanent engineering team.

The successful candidate will bring hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry, LLM deployment, AI Agents, and governance, and will act as both SME and trusted advisor, mentoring the in-house team and shaping

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry and Azure capabilities.
• Experience establishing Azure AI Foundry environments from scratch.
• Proven ability configuring and deploying LLMs/models within Azure.
• Hands-on experience with AI Agents / agentic AI solutions.
• Understanding of Azure AI architecture, security and governance.
• Experience connecting internal data to LLMs including RAG and fine-tuning.
• Able to act as hands-on SME and trusted advisor.
• Prior mentoring and upskilling permanent engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of the initial Azure AI application.
• Establish Azure AI capability from the ground up.
• Transfer knowledge to the client's permanent engineering team.
• Mentor and upskill the client’s engineers.

Skills

Azure AI Foundry

LLM deployment in Azure

AI Agents / agentic AI

Azure AI architecture & governance

RAG / grounding / fine-tuning

Mentoring and upskilling teams

Technical SME and advisor

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Consult is seeking an Azure AI Foundry SME/Consultant to lead enterprise Azure AI capability build for a major professional services client. Fully remote, 6-12 month contract, £450-£500/day outside IR35, with strong emphasis on knowledge transfer to the client's permanent engineering team.

The successful candidate will bring hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry, LLM deployment, AI Agents, and governance, and will act as both SME and trusted advisor, mentoring the in-house team and shaping