Copilot Studio Developer

Come Build Your Career at Aecon!

As a Canadian leader in infrastructure development Aecon is safely and sustainably building what matters for future generations to thrive! We lead some of the most impactful infrastructure projects of our generation at the forefront of transformational change in transportation and energy and partnering every day to build connect power and strengthen our communities.

At Aecon you can count on:

• Safety Always. Our number one core value. If we cant do it safely we dont do it at all.
• Integrity. We lead by example with humility and courage.
• Accountability. Were passionate about delivering on our commitments.
• Inclusion. We provide equitable opportunities for everyone.

We lead the infrastructure industry with purpose and our people are at the heart of everything we do. So we invest in our people just like they invest in us!

At Aecon we:

• Ensure you and your family receive the services needed to support your mental emotional and physical well-being.
• Believe in helping you build your career through our Aecon University and Leadership Programs.
• Are committed to supporting and investing in inclusive work environments through initiatives like Equity Diversity & Inclusion training our Aecon Women in Trades and Aecon Diversity in Trades programs and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to ensure we are building inclusion into every aspect of our culture at Aecon.
• Are a leader in sustainable construction.With a strong commitment to operating responsibly by minimizing our impact on the environment and surrounding communities.

Our business success relies on strong execution and continuous improvement driven by the diversity expertise and teamwork of our people. Were always searching the globe for innovative collaborative minds to join our best-in-class Aecon community!

What is the Opportunity

The Copilot Studio Developer will design build and evolve Copilot and agentic AI solutions that solve real business problems. Youll pair strong prompt engineering and agent development skills with excellent consulting chopstranslating business needs into robust secure agents and copilots built in Microsoft Copilot Studio grounded in our Azure ecosystem (Azure OpenAI Azure AI Foundry data/connectors) and delivered in partnership with our platform admins and business stakeholders.

While this role is primarily focused on building AI solutions on Microsoft and Azure technologies it also offers opportunities to extend solutions across other tools and platforms (e.g. AWS SAP Joule ACC AI Components and more) to meet diverse business needs.

This role sits in the AI team partnering closely with business units for requirements and adoption while leveraging centralized platform governance and infrastructure for safe scalable delivery.

What Youll Do Here:

Solutioning & Build

• Design and implement Copilot Studio solutions (topics plugins/connectors actions orchestration) with an emphasis on agentic patterns (planning tooluse memory/state and guardrails).
• Apply prompt engineering (instructions grounding evaluation) and RAG where appropriate; design content grounding and policy/guardrail strategies for reliable behaviour.
• Implement integrations to lineofbusiness systems and data (Graph SharePoint Dataverse APIs Azure services) with appropriate authentication/authorization patterns.

Discovery & Business Interface

• Run intake/discovery workshops capture precise requirements and translate them into scoped backlogs acceptance criteria and value hypotheses.
• Create quick prototypes to validate feasibility and value; iterate to production readiness with clear nonfunctional requirements (quality latency privacy security).

Delivery & Lifecycle

• Ship MVPs then own maintenance and enhancements: telemetry testing prompt/version control regression checks against model updates and ongoing improvements.
• Define and track outcome metrics (adoption task success time saved error rate) and contribute to value realization dashboards for stakeholders.

Collaboration & Governance

• Partner with platform administrators to leverage enterprise infrastructure policies DLP and cost/usage controls; youll consume the platform not run it.
• Follow best practices for safe deployment access and compliance; contribute patterns and reusable components.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Handson Copilot Studio build experience (or adjacent conversational/agent frameworks) with shipped pilots or production solutions.
• Demonstrated prompt engineering skills and evaluation practices (A/B golden sets offline/online testing).
• Strong consulting/soft skillsfacilitating workshops eliciting requirements translating ambiguity into crisp user stories.
• Working knowledge of Azure services used alongside Copilot Studio (e.g. Azure AI Foundry/Prompt Flow Azure OpenAI API Management Functions/Logic Apps storage identity).
• Familiarity with data security privacy and responsible AI principles; ability to design safe permissionaware agents.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Azure AI Foundry projects and Prompt Flow pipelines; M365 Graph/SharePoint/Dataverse integration patterns.
• Exposure to SDKbased agent frameworks (Semantic Kernel Autogen) for advanced orchestration.
• Power Platform familiarity especially governance patterns for lowcode AI.

Aecon fosters diversity inclusion and belonging within and across our organization. We welcome all to apply including women visible minorities Indigenous peoples persons with disabilities and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.

We are committed to adhering to the objectives and requirements outlined in the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) and to meeting the accessibility needs of persons with disabilities in a timely manner. Through the implementation of the requirements of the ACA and its applicable regulations appropriate accommodations will be provided upon request throughout the interview and hiring process.