Senior Manager, Microsoft Agentic Solutions Architect

Deloitte (UK); Alabama; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte UK is seeking a Microsoft Agentic Solutions Architect at Senior Manager level to shape opportunities and lead technical solutioning across Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and enterprise AI. You will craft credible architectures, delivery roadmaps and narratives for profitable growth and high-quality delivery.

You will work with account teams and advisory stakeholders to design secure, scalable agentic AI solutions, moving clients from pilots to production adoption while aligning with

Qualifications

• Proven experience at Senior Manager level leading solution architecture for Microsoft Copilot and related AI platforms.
• Strong track record shaping client opportunities from discovery through proposal with architecture options.
• Experience designing across Microsoft AI and agentic architecture, including Copilot extensions and Azure AI Foundry.
• Understanding of agentic AI design patterns and governance considerations.
• Ability to translate business problems into AI-enabled solution architectures with measurable outcomes.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture, security, data, and delivery teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management for senior workshops and governance.
• Commercial judgement balancing ambition with delivery risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, agentic AI and enterprise AI solutions.
• Qualify opportunities, define solution options, shape scope, estimate effort and create technical win themes.
• Design agent patterns, orchestration, grounding, tool integration, guardrails and governance models.
• Advise clients on when to use Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and related controls.
• Translate concepts into pragmatic delivery plans and architecture decisions for delivery teams.
• Communicate with CIOs/CTOs and sponsors, tailoring messages from executive to architecture detail.
• Develop reference architectures, accelerators and technical playbooks to enable repeatable delivery.

Skills

Solution architecture leadership

Opportunity shaping

Agentic architecture design

Microsoft platform alignment

Delivery confidence

Executive and technical advisory

Reusable capability

Job description

Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Business Line

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

06-Oct-2026

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Deloitte's Engineering practice is at the forefront of transforming businesses by bringing together cutting-edge tech programme delivery, quality assurance, and testing expertise. We empower clients to modernise their core business through our deep capabilities in application and infrastructure engineering, cloud strategy, transformation, and migration. Practitioners within this team continuously advance their expertise to deliver robust, innovative solutions, from initial strategy to implementation and optimization.

Enterprises are moving from Copilot experimentation to production-grade agentic AI, where value depends on secure architecture, grounded knowledge, robust integration, responsible AI controls and clear adoption pathways. Clients need solution architects who can translate Microsoft AI capability into practical enterprise architectures that can be sold, delivered, governed and scaled.

We are seeking a Microsoft Agentic Solutions Architect at Senior Manager level who has shaped opportunities, led technical solutioning for clients and architected agentic solutions across Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365, Power Platform and the wider Azure AI ecosystem. You will be responsible for turning client ambition into credible architecture, delivery roadmaps, estimates and solution narratives that support profitable growth and high-quality delivery.

This is a senior client-facing architecture role for someone who combines Microsoft AI technical depth, consulting judgement, delivery awareness and commercial credibility. You will work across account teams, Microsoft alliance stakeholders, industry SMEs and engineering teams to design secure, scalable and differentiated agentic AI solutions that help clients move from pilots to production adoption.

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Success in this role will be measured by the quality of the solutions you shape, the confidence you create with clients and delivery teams, and the contribution you make to winning and scaling Microsoft AI work. You will be expected to deliver the following:

• Solution architecture leadership: lead the architecture of Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, agentic AI and enterprise AI solutions, ensuring designs are secure, scalable, reliable and aligned to client objectives.
• Opportunity shaping: work with market makers, account teams and pursuit leads to qualify opportunities, define solution options, shape scope, estimate effort and create compelling technical win themes.
• Agentic architecture design: design agent patterns, orchestration approaches, knowledge grounding, tool integration, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, evaluation and guardrail models for enterprise use cases.
• Microsoft platform alignment: advise clients on when to use Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Foundry Agent Service, Power Platform, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Graph and related controls as part of an integrated Microsoft AI architecture.
• Delivery confidence: translate solution concepts into pragmatic delivery plans, architecture decisions, non-functional requirements, dependencies, risk assumptions and mobilisation approaches that delivery teams can execute.
• Executive and technical advisory: communicate with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, business sponsors, security leaders and engineering teams, adapting the message from board-level value narrative through to architecture-level detail.
• Reusable capability: help build reference architectures, accelerators, demo patterns, estimation models, proposal content and technical playbooks that improve consistency across Microsoft agentic AI pursuits and delivery.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Proven experience at Senior Manager level or equivalent, leading solution architecture for Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 or enterprise AI transformation programmes in a consulting, systems integrator or enterprise technology environment.
• A strong track record of shaping client opportunities from discovery through to proposal, including solution strategy, architecture options, delivery approach, assumptions, dependencies, estimates, commercial inputs and executive-level solution presentations.
• Experience designing across Microsoft AI and agentic architecture, including Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio Agents, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Graph, connectors, Power Platform, identity, security, compliance and governance considerations.
• Practical understanding of agentic AI design patterns, including orchestration, grounding, RAG, enterprise knowledge layers, tool use, MCP or API-based integration, agent identity, evaluation, monitoring, guardrails and human approval workflows.
• Ability to translate business problems into AI-enabled solution architectures that deliver measurable outcomes across productivity, service improvement, automation, knowledge management, employee experience, risk reduction and operating model change.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture, security, data, integration, change and delivery teams to ensure AI solutions are robust, responsible, implementable and aligned to client technology standards.
• Strong understanding of delivery lifecycle considerations, including use case prioritisation, data readiness, security review, responsible AI assessment, adoption planning, value tracking, testing, release management and operational support.
• Experience working with Microsoft account teams, partner specialists or stakeholders to shape joint solutions, respond to client demand and support co-sell or partner-led opportunities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to facilitate senior workshops, challenge assumptions constructively and make complex architecture decisions understandable to non-technical stakeholders.
• Commercial judgement, including the ability to balance ambition with delivery risk, shape phased roadmaps, identify scope boundaries, articulate trade-offs and support pricing or resourcing assumptions.
• A collaborative leadership style, with experience guiding senior managers, architects, engineers, adoption specialists and SMEs around a common solution vision.

The following will be desirable skills:

• Experience in creating reference architectures, reusable delivery patterns, demos, accelerators or technical propositions for Copilot, agentic AI, AI-enabled workflow automation or enterprise knowledge solutions.
• Experience architecting AI solutions across sectors such as financial services, insurance, public sector, energy, consumer, or professional services.
• Understanding of responsible AI governance, AI operating models, data governance, regulatory considerations, cyber resilience, threat modelling, privacy and enterprise risk management for AI solutions.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications or recognised credentials across Azure AI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure architecture, security, data or AI transformation leadership.
• Understand how to design managed services, AI factories, agent factories, platform engineering models or reusable enablement approaches that help clients scale beyond initial AI pilots.
• Experience developing thought leadership, client briefings, technical papers, executive workshops or architecture narratives that create confidence in Microsoft agentic AI adoption.
• Experience mentoring architects and solutions leads to improve how Microsoft AI opportunities are qualified, solutioned, priced and delivered.

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