Job Description - Azure AI/M365 Copilot Search Architect

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement enterprise GenAI search architectures leveraging Azure AI Search and Microsoft 365 Copilot search to deliver reliable, scalable, and intelligent discovery experiences across the organization.
Architect retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns and semantic search solutions, selecting appropriate vector search, hybrid ranking, and grounding strategies for enterprise knowledge bases.
Analyze business requirements from diverse stakeholder groups and translate them into detailed search solution designs that balance relevance, latency, security, and cost.
Configure and optimize indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data, ensuring consistent ingestion, enrichment, skillset application, and normalization across multiple content repositories.
Develop search relevance strategies including semantic ranking, vector embeddings, scoring profiles, synonym management, and domain-specific tuning to improve precision and recall for business-critical queries.




Configure Microsoft 365 Copilot search connectors, semantic index integration, and Graph-based retrieval to surface organizational knowledge within Copilot experiences.
Collaborate with application engineering teams to integrate search and GenAI capabilities into web portals, internal tools, and customer-facing applications using appropriate SDKs and APIs.
Define and implement security and access models, ensuring search results respect data access policies, sensitivity labels, regulatory constraints, and privacy requirements.
Lead client-facing architecture and consulting engagements, presenting solution designs, conducting technical workshops, and advising stakeholders on GenAI search strategy and roadmap.
Monitor search system health by tracking relevance metrics, query latency, index freshness, and grounding quality, and recommend remediation to maintain high availability.
Conduct capacity planning and perform

📌 Azure AI/Copilot Search (India)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 India