Estrada Consulting Incorporated

AI / Azure Solution Architect (Ref: 5864)

Remote•United States•Contract
About the Job
AI / Azure Solution Architect (Ref: 5864)
Position: AI / Azure Solution Architect
Location: Remote
Type: Consulting/Contract
Rate: DOE
Preferred location: Texas

Seeking a senior AI / Azure Solution Architect with hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise AI solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

Key Qualifications:
  • Strong hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry/Microsoft Foundry.
  • Experience designing and implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions.
  • Experience with Azure AI Search, embeddings, vector search, and hybrid search.
  • Experience developing enterprise knowledge assistants using organizational documents and providing traceable source citations.
  • Experience with Copilot Studio, custom AI agents, and agent orchestration.
  • Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise data, APIs, and business workflows.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, permission-aware retrieval, and security trimming.
  • Experience evaluating LLM solutions for groundedness, hallucinations, prompt injection, and answer accuracy.
  • Strong Azure architecture and enterprise solution-design experience.

Preferred: Experience supporting public-sector, pension/retirement, financial services, or investment-management organizations.