M365CoPilot Engineer

Job: Copilot Engineer

Start: ASAP

Contract Length: 12 months

Location: Oak Park Heights MN - Hybrid 2 days onsite per week

Role Summary

The Copilot Engineer is responsible for designing implementing governing and scaling Microsoft Copilot capabilities across the enterprise. This role bridges AI platform engineering governance and enablement-ensuring Copilot solutions are secure compliant meaningful and deliver measurable business value.

The Copilot Engineer partners closely with IT Security Legal Data Owners and Business Teams to turn generative AI capabilities into practical trusted productivity and decision-support solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Copilot Design & Engineering

• Design and configure Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences aligned to defined business use cases.
• Build test and maintain Copilot Studio agents including prompts skills actions and connectors.
• Develop reusable prompt patterns and templates that are safe effective and enterprise ready.
• Integrate Copilot with Microsoft Graph SharePoint Dataverse Power Platform and approved line of business systems.

Data & Context Engineering

• Ensure Copilot outputs are grounded in accurate relevant and authoritative enterprise data.
• Validate data access paths used by Copilot and agents.

Security Compliance & Risk Management

• Implement security and compliance guardrails including access controls sensitivity labels DLP and retention policies.
• Participate in security and privacy reviews for Copilot agents connectors and integrations.
• Ensure Copilot solutions align with Legal Privacy Records and Information Security requirements.
• Enforce responsible AI practices and usage constraints

Governance & Lifecycle Management

• Support definition and execution of Copilot governance standards and operating models.
• Manage agent lifecycle including ownership versioning approvals and retirement.
• Help prevent agent sprawl and unmanaged AI usage through controls and standards.
• Align Copilot engineering practices with existing M365 and Power Platform governance.

Enablement & Adoption

• Support pilot programs and phased Copilot rollouts.
• Provide Tier 2/3 support and troubleshooting for Copilot and agent issues.
• Collaborate with training and enablement teams to educate users and builders.
• Translate technical capabilities into clear role based usage guidance.

Measurement & Value Realization

• Support leadership reporting and ROI discussions related to Copilot investments.
• Provide recommendations on scaling or pausing solutions based on results.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with Microsoft 365 (Teams SharePoint OneDrive Outlook Word Excel).
• Hands on experience with Power Platform (Power Automate Power Apps Dataverse).
• Experience building or configuring Copilot Studio agents or similar AI driven assistants.
• Solid understanding of information security data protection and enterprise compliance fundamentals.
• Ability to translate business problems into technical Copilot solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise AI governance or platform enablement.
• Familiarity with Azure integrations APIs or custom connectors.
• Experience supporting large scale M365 deployments or Copilot rollouts.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working with technical and non technical stakeholders.