Associate Director, CoPilot Studio Solution Architect

CoPilot Studio Solution Architect

The CoPilot Studio Solution Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of agent and copilot solutions built on Microsoft CoPilot Studio across Invesco. This role defines the reference architectures, integration standards, and governance patterns for low-code AI agents that connect Microsoft 365 and core enterprise systems. The Architect partners with business and technology stakeholders to translate priority use cases into secure, scalable, production-grade copilot experiences aligned with Invesco's AI strategy, risk posture, and regulatory obligations.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise across the Microsoft AI stack, a pragmatic delivery mindset, and the ability to translate emerging agentic capabilities into measurable business value.

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Solution Architecture & Design

  • Define and own the target architecture for CoPilot Studio agents at Invesco, including topic design, generative orchestration, knowledge sources, plugins, connectors, and handoff patterns to Microsoft 365 Copilot.

  • Establish reference patterns for integrating CoPilot Studio with existing Invesco applications, infrastructure (including Cloud across Azure & AWS), and SaaS platforms.

  • Lead architectural reviews, design-authority sign-off, and technical due diligence for new copilot use cases across the enterprise.

• Delivery & Engineering Leadership

  • Partner with product owners, business analysts, and makers to translate business needs into agent designs, conversation flows, and grounded knowledge strategies.

  • Oversee the hands-on build of priority copilots — authoring topics, prompts, plugins, and custom connectors — and coach engineering teams on best practice.

  • Drive Application Lifecycle Management, source control, environment strategy, and CI/CD for CoPilot Studio solutions using Power Platform Pipelines and Azure Dev Ops / Git Hub.

• Governance, Security & Responsible AI

  • Define and enforce guardrails for CoPilot Studio — Data Loss Prevention policies, environment strategy, authentication (Entra , SSO, On-Behalf-Of flows), data residency, and content moderation.

  • Embed Responsible AI principles — grounding, citations, evaluation, red-teaming, and human-in-the-loop — into every solution delivered.

  • Ensure all copilots meet Invesco's information security, privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements.

• Business Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as the trusted technical advisor to business sponsors, evangelizing both the capabilities and the realistic limits of CoPilot Studio and agentic AI.

  • Build and run a CoPilot Studio centralized practice covering standards, templates, maker enablement, and a value-tracking framework.

• Operational Excellence

  • Establish observability, telemetry, conversation analytics, and quality metrics for production agents.

  • Contribute to the management of capacity, consumption, licensing (messages, AI Builder credits, premium connectors), and total cost of ownership across the CoPilot Studio estate.

  • Align CoPilot Studio delivery with Invesco's modern delivery models and product-aligned engineering teams.

The experiences you Bring

• Minimum 8+ years in solution architecture or senior engineering roles, with at least 2+ years hands-on with Microsoft CoPilot Studio (and/or predecessor Power Virtual Agents) delivering production agents.

• Deep, demonstrable expertise across the Microsoft Power Platform — Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and AI Builder — together with Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility (declarative agents, API plugins, connectors, and the CoPilot Studio agent builder).

• Strong working knowledge of Azure AI services — Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search (vector and hybrid retrieval), Azure AI Foundry, Document Intelligence, and Content Safety.

• Proven experience with conversational design, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), evaluation frameworks, and agent orchestration patterns, including multi-agent and Microsoft 365 Copilot handoff.

• Solid grounding in identity (Entra , OAuth 2.0, On-Behalf-Of flow), Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, and enterprise integration patterns (REST, Logic…