Associate Distinguished Engineer – Enterprise Architect, Azure AI

Nagarro

Solution Architect for AI Adoption initiatives at a digital product engineering company responsible for creating secure, scalable AI platforms and overseeing compliance across multiple environments.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $170,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect the AI Landing Zone, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Copilot services.
Ensure the platform is secure, compliant, and designed to scale across academic, administrative, research, and healthcare environments.
Define and enforce governance, identity/SSO integration, and infrastructure requirements.
Implement architectural controls to support FERPA, accessibility (WCAG/508), privacy, and institutional policy requirements.
Ensure solutions incorporate responsible AI checks, fairness validation, and observability.
Design integration patterns with core client systems (SIS, LMS, SSO, APIs, data sources).
Collaborate with the Data/Technology Lead to define secure data pipelines, connectors, and access patterns.
Evaluate technology options (Azure OpenAI, Copilot, Power Platform, Fabric) for each use case.
Define technical requirements, constraints, and architectural components for low, medium, and high-complexity use cases.
Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards, cost transparency mechanisms, and lifecycle management processes.
Review prototypes, solution designs, integrations, and deployments for technical completeness and architectural alignment.
Provide coaching and guidance to development and engineering teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Expertise in cloud/enterprise architecture, preferably across Azure AI services.
Strong understanding of identity, security, compliance frameworks, and data governance.
Experience designing scalable AI or cloud platforms and integrating enterprise systems.
Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, optimize performance, and implement MLOps/CI-CD.
Strong communication skills for translating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud architectureAzure OpenAIAzure AI FoundryPower PlatformMicrosoft FabricMicrosoft CopilotMLOpsCI/CDdata governanceintegration patterns

Soft Skills

strong communicationcoachingguidancecollaborationtranslating technical concepts