Associate Manager, Agentic AI Engineer

The Agentic AI Engineer designs, develops, integrates, and operationalizes enterprise AI agents using Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot Studio. This role combines software engineering, generative AI, workflow automation, data integration, and technical architecture skills to build AI solutions capable of reasoning over enterprise information, interacting with business systems, orchestrating multi-step processes, and taking actions on behalf of users.

Come Join Us

The engineer will work across both pro-code and low-code agent development patterns, selecting the appropriate approach based on solution complexity, integration requirements, extensibility, security, governance, and user experience. The role is expected to develop sophisticated agent capabilities in Microsoft Foundry while also leveraging Copilot Studio for Microsoft 365-centric experiences, workflow-oriented agents, and rapid enterprise solutions.

What you'll do

• Design and develop enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Build AI agents that combine large language models, enterprise knowledge, business rules, APIs, tools, and workflow automation.
• Develop pro-code AI solutions using Python, C#, and/or TypeScript, Microsoft Foundry SDKs, REST APIs, and related Azure services.
• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise data and search/indexing technologies such as Azure AI Search.
• Design grounding strategies that enable agents to securely retrieve and reason over structured and unstructured enterprise information.
• Build integrations between AI agents and enterprise applications, APIs, MCP servers, data platforms, Microsoft 365 services, and business processes.
• Implement agent tools and actions that allow agents to perform controlled operations against external systems.
• Develop multi-agent and agent-to-agent orchestration patterns for complex business scenarios.
• Build Copilot Studio agents incorporating knowledge sources, instructions, actions, workflows, connectors, and enterprise integrations.
• Integrate Copilot Studio experiences with more advanced AI capabilities implemented in Microsoft Foundry where appropriate.
• Design prompts, system instructions, tool definitions, grounding strategies, and orchestration logic that produce reliable agent behavior.
• Implement evaluation approaches for measuring agent accuracy, groundedness, relevance, task completion, and overall solution quality.
• Diagnose issues involving prompts, retrieval, context, model responses, API integrations, agent orchestration, and workflow execution.
• Implement appropriate security, identity, access control, data protection, responsible AI, and governance patterns for enterprise agent solutions.
• Establish development practices supporting source control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI solutions.
• Collaborate with solution architects, data engineers, application developers, business stakeholders, and security teams to translate business processes into deployable AI solutions.
• Develop prototypes and proofs of concept and mature successful concepts into supportable production solutions.

• Avanade promotes a client-centric, flexible work environment. This role may periodically require work during evenings and/or weekends to support project deliverables, client needs, or operational priorities.
• Travel may be required based on client demand.