Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and AI Solution Architect

Position summary Seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design of a secure and scalable Microsoft 365 GCC and Azure AI platform. This role owns application, integration, data, identity, security, network, document intelligence, enterprise search, generative AI, and DevSecOps architecture. Responsibilities * Define target-state application, integration, data, AI, security, network, and deployment architecture. * Design SharePoint Online, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Purview, and Entra ID integrations. * Establish Azure hosting, messaging, storage, database, API, monitoring, and environment standards. * Own RBAC, managed identities, private networking, encryption, Key Vault, WAF, and Zero Trust architecture. * Design Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, RAG, and GraphRAG solutions. * Define metadata, ontology, provenance, entity-resolution, relationship, and temporal-lineage models. * Establish Azure governance, naming, tagging, monitoring, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD standards. * Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction to engineering teams. Required skills * Ten or more years of enterprise solution-architecture experience, including Microsoft and Azure architecture responsibility * Microsoft 365 GCC, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Graph, Entra ID, and Microsoft Purview * Azure Functions, Container Apps, App Service, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault * Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI * Semantic and vector search, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, RAG, GraphRAG, ontologies, and knowledge graphs * Entra ID app roles, Azure RBAC, managed identities, Conditional Access, PIM, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect * Virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, WAF, and Zero Trust * Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Policy, and cost governance * Bicep or Terraform, Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD * NIST SP 800-53, CUI, data residency, records governance, and secure DevSecOps Key deliverables * Solution Architecture Document and target-state diagrams * Security, identity, and network architecture * Document Intelligence and data architecture * Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, and RAG/GraphRAG architecture * DevSecOps, environment, monitoring, and operational architecture Preferred qualifications * Government cloud or regulated-environment experience * Experience with authorization-aware RAG or GraphRAG * Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert * Azure security, networking, AI, DevOps, or Microsoft 365 certification Pay: $30,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year Work Location: In person