Lead Agentic AI Engineer – Foundry & Copilot Studio

Avanade Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 96,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and LTD

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Avanade Inc. is seeking a hands-on AI/ML-focused software engineer to design, develop, and operationalize enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions.

You will build AI agents that leverage Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, integrating LLMs with corporate data, APIs, and business rules to enable secure automation across enterprise workflows. You will design prompts, grounding strategies, and orchestration logic, while ensuring robust security, identity, and governance patterns.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in AI, data, or consulting roles.
• 2+ years with Foundry/Azure AI Foundry and/or Copilot Studio.
• 3+ years software development in Python, C#, TypeScript.
• 3+ years developing with large language models and generative AI.
• 2+ years knowledge of agent orchestration, RAG, and context management.
• 1+ year integrating applications via REST APIs, SDKs, or MCP servers.
• 3+ years working with structured/unstructured enterprise data.
• 3+ years understanding authentication, authorization, identity, and secrets management.
• 3+ years troubleshooting AI apps across model, retrieval, orchestration, and integration.
• 3+ years familiarity with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions using Foundry and Copilot Studio.
• Build AI agents that combine LLMs with enterprise data, rules, APIs, and workflows.
• Develop pro-code AI solutions with Python, C#, and/or TypeScript and REST APIs.
• Implement RAG using Azure AI Search and enterprise data.
• Create grounding strategies for secure retrieval and reasoning over data.
• Integrate agents with enterprise systems, APIs, MCP servers, and data platforms.
• Implement agent tools and actions for controlled operations against external systems.
• Develop multi-agent orchestration patterns for complex business scenarios.
• Build Copilot Studio agents with knowledge sources, instructions, actions, and workflows.
• Integrate Copilot Studio with Foundry for advanced AI capabilities.

Skills

AI/Data/Consulting

Foundry/Azure AI Foundry

Python

C#

TypeScript

LLMs & Generative AI

Agent orchestration

REST APIs

RAG

DevOps & CI/CD

Azure services

Security/authentication

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Git

CI/CD

Observability/Monitoring

MCP servers

Job description

Avanade Inc. is seeking a hands-on AI/ML-focused software engineer to design, develop, and operationalize enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions.

You will build AI agents that leverage Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, integrating LLMs with corporate data, APIs, and business rules to enable secure automation across enterprise workflows. You will design prompts, grounding strategies, and orchestration logic, while ensuring robust security, identity, and governance patterns.