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Principal AI Engineer - Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
12 Month Contract
Who We Are
Were on a mission to close the worlds tech skills gap.
We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster.
Since 2014, weve worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology.
That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers.
Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Principal AI Engineer to architect and deliver an enterprise-grade Microsoft Azure AI Foundry platform. The role will establish the foundational architecture, governance, security, scalability and cost-management capabilities required to support production AI and agentic workflows across the organisation.
You will operate at a senior technical level, working across Azure infrastructure, AI platform engineering, security, MLOps, FinOps and AI engineering teams to create a secure, scalable and reusable AI platform.
The successful candidate will combine deep Azure architecture expertise with hands-on experience of enterprise AI platforms and will play a key role in defining the technical standards and patterns for AI adoption.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture
Architect and design scalable, resilient Azure AI Foundry environments aligned to enterprise cloud architecture and Azure Landing Zone principles.
Design the integration of Azure AI Foundry with Azure OpenAI Service, model catalogues, prompt flows, AI Search, vector databases and custom AI tooling.
Define reusable architecture patterns for AI workloads, including development, test...
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