The Innovation Engineer rapidly turns high-value business opportunities into working Digital & AI solutions. This hands-on role designs builds integrates and tests prototypes agents workflows automations and applications that can be evaluated with real users before the firm commits to larger-scale investment.
Working closely with Digital Solution Consultants business subject-matter experts and enterprise technology partners the Innovation Engineer owns the technical execution of individual Foundry initiatives from technical discovery and architecture through prototype development iteration feasibility validation and transition planning. The role balances speed with sound engineering judgment and helps determine whether a concept can be delivered securely responsibly and at the appropriate level of scale.
This position also represents a unique prospect to join as a founding member of our new Digital Innovation Foundry hub in New Delhi. As one of the hubs earliest team members the Innovation Engineer will have the opportunity to help establish how the team operates collaborates and delivers innovative solutions while contributing to the growth of a new strategic capability for the firm.
J.S. Held is continuing to define the development technology stack cloud patterns environments and CI/CD capabilities needed to support innovation at scale. As an early member of the Digital Innovation Foundry the Innovation Engineer will partner closely with IT Cybersecurity Enterprise Architecture Data and other technology teams to help shape practical standards reusable patterns development environments and delivery practices. The role requires a builder mindset strong cloud development experience comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to distinguish rapid experimentation from production-ready engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Rapid Prototyping & Solution Development
- Build functional prototypes proofs of concept agents workflows automations integrations and lightweight applications that allow opportunities to be tested with real users.
- Translate business problems user journeys requirements and acceptance criteria into practical technical solutions in close partnership with Digital Solution Consultants.
- Use rapid iterative development methods to incorporate user feedback and improve functionality reliability and usability.
- Select fit-for-purpose technologies and patterns for each experiment while considering speed security supportability reuse and the likely path to scale.
- Document technical assumptions architecture decisions dependencies known limitations and lessons learned so that decisions are transparent and reusable.
- Demonstrate working solutions to business and technical stakeholders and explain technical trade-offs in clear decision-oriented language.
AI Agents & Automation Engineering
- Design and build AI-enabled solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility Power Platform Azure services and other approved technologies.
- Develop and evaluate AI agents retrieval-augmented generation patterns prompt and orchestration logic knowledge grounding tool use workflow automation and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Integrate solutions with enterprise data content APIs applications and identity services while following approved access and security patterns.
- Evaluate solution quality grounding accuracy reliability performance cost and failure modes using test cases appropriate to the use case.
- Build reusable components connectors templates and patterns where they can accelerate multiple initiatives and reduce fragmented point solutions.
- Identify when a low-code configuration-based custom-development or existing-platform approach is most appropriate.
Cloud Architecture & Technical Feasibility
- Design and develop cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure.
- Conduct technical discovery and feasibility assessment covering architecture data integrations identity and access security privacy performance scalability observability support and cost.
- Partner with IT and Enterprise Architecture to define appropriate solution patterns and clarify the boundary between rapid Foundry experimentation and enterprise production delivery.
- Identify technical risks dependencies and constraints early and recommend whether an initiative should proceed be redesigned transition to an enterprise team or stop.
- Contribute technical estimates and delivery options to initiative-level business cases and scale decisions.
- Ensure prototypes use representative data responsibly and do not create unsupported production dependencies or unmanaged technical risk.
Engineering Foundations & Delivery Practices
- Partner with IT to help establish the development technology stack source-control approach environments infrastructure patterns deployment methods and engineering guardrails for the Foundry.
- Help define and mature CI/CD practices for prototypes and solutions recognizing that these capabilities are still being established rather than assuming mature pipelines already exist.
- Apply sound software engineering practices including modular design version control code review automated testing documentation dependency management secrets management and secure configuration.
- Work with IT to define practical development test quality-assurance and production pathways appropriate to solution complexity and risk.
- Implement monitoring logging usage telemetry and cost visibility where appropriate to support evaluation and future supportability.
- Prepare validated solutions for transition by documenting architecture code configuration data flows deployment needs operational requirements and known risks.
Collaboration Reuse & Scale
- Work closely with Digital Solution Consultants and business users throughout discovery piloting testing and iteration rather than treating development as a downstream handoff.
- Collaborate with IT Cybersecurity Enterprise Architecture Data Legal Compliance and other partners to incorporate enterprise requirements at the appropriate stage.
- Provide initiative-level technical progress feasibility findings risks cost considerations and recommendations to support portfolio reviews and investment decisions.
- Contribute reusable technical standards reference implementations templates and playbooks to strengthen the Foundry operating model.
- Mentor non-engineering team members on technical possibilities constraints and responsible experimentation and support knowledge transfer to teams that assume ownership of successful solutions.
- Stay current on relevant AI cloud automation and development capabilities and evaluate emerging tools based on business fit rather than novelty.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Data Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software engineering cloud application development solution engineering AI engineering platform engineering or a related field including hands-on responsibility for designing and delivering working solutions.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience developing AI-enabled solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility Power Platform Azure AI services or closely comparable enterprise platforms.
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python C# TypeScript or JavaScript with experience building APIs services integrations and user-facing applications.
- Hands-on cloud development experience in Microsoft Azure is required; experience across multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud is strongly preferred.
- Experience with cloud architecture APIs event-driven or serverless patterns identity and access management data stores enterprise integrations monitoring and secure application design.
- Experience with AI application patterns such as agents retrieval-augmented generation model and prompt orchestration grounding evaluation tool use and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Experience establishing or improving development foundations including source control branching automated testing environments infrastructure as code deployment automation and CI/CD practices.
- Ability to prototype rapidly while making clear distinctions between experimental code and production-ready solutions including the risks and work required to transition between them.
- Working knowledge of security privacy responsible AI data governance resiliency performance cost management observability and production support considerations.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills including the ability to explain architecture choices and technical trade-offs to business leaders subject-matter experts architects engineers and risk partners.
- Experience in professional services consulting or another expert-led knowledge-intensive workplace is beneficial.
- Self-directed builder mindset with the ability to create structure in an evolving environment partner constructively with enterprise IT and balance delivery speed with reusable and supportable engineering practices
Additional Information :
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- Comprehensive Medical Insurance
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