Copilot Studio Architect

Location: Pan India

Role Summary

We are looking for an Agentic AI Architect to own how custom agents are designed, governed, and scaled across our clients' Microsoft ecosystems. This is a design-authority role centred on Copilot Studio, but it reaches into the wider agent landscape: M365 Copilot extensibility, Power Platform, Azure AI, and the governance that keeps all of it protected. You set the architecture and standards, decide when an agent is the right answer and when it is not, and ensure what the teams build is secure, grounded, cost-aware, and maintainable. You stay technical enough to prototype and challenge a design, but your primary output is direction, standards, and governance.

Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture for agentic AI solutions, from use-case qualification through to a documented target design.
- Make the key platform decisions: Copilot Studio versus M365 Copilot agents versus pro-code (Azure AI Foundry / SDK), low-code versus pro-code orchestration, and where each is justified.




- Define grounding and knowledge architecture: which sources, how they are indexed and secured, and how retrieval quality is maintained over time.
- Design the security and identity model for agents, including Entra ID, least-privilege access, connector governance, and data boundaries.
- Establish governance for agentic AI: DLP policies, environment strategy, ALM, responsible AI guardrails, monitoring, and cost management for consumption/messaging.
- Provide architectural governance and design review over the agents that senior developers and teams deliver.
- Advise clients and internal stakeholders on agentic AI roadmaps, feasibility, and effort/complexity trade-offs, and support proposals and SOWs with credible designs.
- Anticipate risks around accuracy, data exposure, licensing/consumption cost, and long-term supportability, and design around them.

Must-Have Skills
- Architecture-level command of Copilot Studio and the b

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