AI Architect – Agentic Systems (Azure AI Foundry)

Job Title: AI Architect Agentic Systems (Azure AI Foundry)
Location: Toronto ON (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract

1. AI Architect Agentic Systems (Azure AI Foundry)

• Core Technical & Architectural Experience
• Experience designing and delivering at least one production grade AI or agentic system on Azure (not just PoC/experiment).
• Strong understanding of Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI vector search and tool calling based architectures.
• Experience with LangChain and/or Semantic Kernel for orchestration plus LangSmith or equivalent for tracing and evaluation.
• Familiarity with emerging agent frameworks and patterns (MCP A2A) with at least some hands on experimentation applying them in real workflows.
• Solid grounding in REST API design & integration JSON schema definition and event/message-based patterns.

Productization Scale & Operations

• Experience taking solutions from MVP to productized platform including refactoring hardening and non functional requirements (performance reliability observability security).
• Hands on experience deploying solutions to scalable environments on Azure (AKS App Service Functions or similar).
• Experience collaborating with operations/SRE/DevOps teams to define runbooks SLIs/SLOs logging and monitoring for production.
• Familiarity with incident management and post mortems in a live production context.

Tooling & Collaboration

• Daily working experience with GitHub (repos PRs Actions) and Jira (backlog boards epics).
• Exposure to ServiceNow for change and incident management (even as consumer working with Change/ITSM teams).
• Ability to use Visio Figma or similar tools to document architectures sequence diagrams and interaction flows.
• Comfortable using Mural/Miro/whiteboard tools to drive collaborative design with distributed teams.
• Experience working in multi program environments where platform components are reused and versioned across multiple products/teams.