AI Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +6 more states.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, and implement Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, encompassing topics, knowledge sources, generative orchestration, authentication, and content moderation to streamline enterprise workflows across the bank.

• Design and support custom Power Platform connectors and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that securely connect internal banking systems and APIs to Copilot Studio agents and Power Platform developers.

• Architect and oversee Dataverse solutions, including tables, relationships, security roles, business rules, plug-ins, and elastic tables, acting as the system of record for Copilot Studio agents and Power Apps.

• Develop agent tools, plug-ins, and reusable components using C# and .NET 10 to enhance Copilot Studio with tailored business logic, API integrations, and AI orchestration patterns (tool calling, RAG, declarative agents).

• Manage Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) at scale, which includes managed environments, solution packaging, the ALM Accelerator, Power Platform CLI (pac), and pipelines integrated with GitHub Actions.

• Enforce responsible AI governance through DLP policies, environment strategies, agent telemetry, evaluation harnesses, content safety, and grounding, ensuring adherence to bank security and regulatory standards.

• Collaborate with software, data, and AI engineers to incorporate Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure AI Search into Power Platform and Copilot Studio solutions, including knowledge ingestion and retrieval pipelines.

• Provide mentorship to pro-code and citizen developers on Copilot Studio patterns, Power Platform ALM, secure coding, and AI engineering best practices; advocate for compliance with change management and SDLC standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or a minimum of 5 years of equivalent professional experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in developing enterprise solutions on Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), including at least 2 years working with Microsoft Copilot Studio or similar conversational AI/agent platforms.

• Microsoft certifications such as Power Platform Developer Associate, Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, Azure AI Engineer Associate, or Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot Studio (one or more preferred).

• Proficient in Microsoft Copilot Studio, including agent design, topics, generative orchestration, knowledge sources, plug-ins, connectors, authentication, environment promotion, telemetry, content moderation, and evaluation.

• Experienced with Power Platform Connectors, including authoring custom connectors (OpenAPI definitions), policy templates, OAuth/OIDC, certified vs custom publishing, and connector lifecycle management.

• Knowledgeable in Model Context Protocol (MCP), including designing, building, and hosting MCP servers that provide tools, resources, and prompts to Copilot Studio and other AI clients; understanding transport, auth, and tool discovery patterns.

• Skilled in Dataverse design, focusing on solution-aware tables, relationships, role-based security, business rules, plug-ins, virtual tables, elastic tables, and integration with external systems.

• Familiar with agent tooling and patterns, including custom plug-ins, declarative agents, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, and agent evaluation harnesses.

• Proficient in managing Power Platform ALM at scale, including managed environments, solutions, ALM Accelerator, Power Platform CLI (pac), pipelines, and tenant-wide DLP and governance.

• Experience with C# and modern .NET (.NET 10 / C# 13, ASP.NET Core, Minimal APIs, Azure Functions) is preferred for developing connectors, MCP servers, Dataverse plug-ins, and agent tools.

• Broad knowledge of Microsoft Azure services supporting AI workloads, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, and Application Insights.

• Familiarity with the GitHub platform, including Actions (reusable and matrix workflows, OIDC federation), Advanced Security, Dependabot, GitHub Copilot, and environment policies for Power Platform pipelines.

• Understanding of responsible AI principles, including prompt and agent evaluation, content safety, grounding, hallucination mitigation, and Microsoft Responsible AI Standard.

• Knowledge of security, compliance, and observability practices, including secrets management, zero-trust networking, data classification, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Application Insights, and Power Platform admin center analytics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled/veterans.