Senior Generative AI & Azure Engineer | Enterprise AI

Publicis Sapient; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

Generous paid leave

Comprehensive health benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Generative AI and Azure to design and build enterprise-grade AI and data solutions on Microsoft Azure.

You will blend software and data engineering with cloud architecture and AI expertise, collaborating with client stakeholders, product teams, and engineers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and developing solutions using LLMs and Generative AI.
• Strong experience with Azure OpenAI or comparable enterprise LLM platforms.
• Experience implementing RAG architectures, AI agents, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, and knowledge-grounded AI solutions.
• Understanding of enterprise AI architecture and patterns for integrating AI solutions with business applications and data.
• Strong experience with Azure Data Factory and Databricks.
• Experience designing and building scalable data pipelines and integration workflows.
• Understanding of data modeling, governance, data quality, and enterprise data architecture.
• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog is preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Understanding of Azure architecture across security, networking, monitoring, and deployment automation.
• Experience designing scalable cloud-based enterprise applications and services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Build scalable data solutions using Azure Data Factory, Databricks Unity Catalog, data pipelines, data models, and integration patterns.
• Architect and engineer cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, with security, networking, monitoring, reliability, and deployment automation.
• Design solutions leveraging vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and enterprise knowledge-management platforms.
• Build data and knowledge architectures that provide reliable enterprise context and grounding for Generative AI applications.
• Develop and integrate APIs and services that connect AI applications with enterprise data and operational systems.
• Apply engineering practices to move AI solutions from prototypes to scalable production deployments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business problems into technical solutions.
• Contribute to solution architecture decisions across AI, data, integration, and cloud engineering.
• Work with Azure AI Foundry to accelerate enterprise AI solution development.

Skills

LLMs & GenAI

Azure OpenAI

RAG architectures

AI agents

Embeddings

Vector search

Semantic search

Knowledge-grounded AI

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Governance

Data architecture

Databricks Unity Catalog

Microsoft Azure

Security & Networking

Tools

Azure OpenAI Studio

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Unity Catalog

Job description

Publicis Sapient is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Generative AI and Azure to design and build enterprise-grade AI and data solutions on Microsoft Azure.

You will blend software and data engineering with cloud architecture and AI expertise, collaborating with client stakeholders, product teams, and engineers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.