Azure AI Team Lead — Generative AI & RAG Architect (Remote)

NorthBay Solutions; United States; Hybrid; USD 37,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthBay Solutions is seeking an experienced Azure AI Specialist (Team Lead) to design and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions on the Azure ecosystem. The role focuses on LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and Agentic AI using Azure-native services.

You will lead multi-tenant deployments, build knowledge graphs for contextual reasoning, and implement robust MLOps pipelines with Azure Machine Learning. Strong Python skills and cloud-native development are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years overall experience focusing on Azure OpenAI API (deployments, scaling, optimization)
• Experience with vector databases and hybrid search architectures
• Practical experience in Agentic AI / multi-agent systems
• Hands-on with Azure AI Document Intelligence (Form Recognizer)
• Strong understanding of Knowledge Graphs and semantic modeling
• Experience with Prompt Flow (Azure AI Studio)
• Solid background in Python and cloud-native development
• Experience with Azure ML / MLOps pipelines
• Ability to design scalable and secure enterprise AI architectures

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy LLM-powered applications using Azure OpenAI for enterprise use cases
• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using Azure AI Search
• Develop Agentic AI systems leveraging framework-based reasoning approaches
• Implement custom Document Intelligence models for high-accuracy data extraction
• Architect multi-tenant AI deployments with scalability, security, and cost-efficiency
• Develop and manage Knowledge Graphs for structured reasoning and contextual intelligence
• Apply advanced prompt engineering techniques (Few-shot, Chain-of-Thought, ReAct)
• Use Prompt Flow in Azure AI Studio for experimentation, testing, and versioning
• Design intelligent conversational systems with fallback handling and memory
• Build and manage MLOps pipelines using Azure Machine Learning

Skills

Azure OpenAI API

Vector databases

Hybrid search architectures

Agentic AI

Azure AI Document Intelligence

Knowledge Graphs

Prompt Flow

Python

Azure ML / MLOps

Enterprise AI architectures

Job description

NorthBay Solutions is seeking an experienced Azure AI Specialist (Team Lead) to design and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions on the Azure ecosystem. The role focuses on LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and Agentic AI using Azure-native services.

You will lead multi-tenant deployments, build knowledge graphs for contextual reasoning, and implement robust MLOps pipelines with Azure Machine Learning. Strong Python skills and cloud-native development are essential.