Principal Engineer, Agentic Journey Engineering Lead

## Principal Engineer, Agentic Journey Engineering Lead Apply remote type:
Hybrid Working locations:
Chicago, ILtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR102472

Established in 2021,
** Independence Pet Holdings
** is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America. We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents.

Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands.
** Role Summary
** We are seeking a forward-thinking Enterprise Principal Engineer to drive the development and deployment of autonomous AI agents on the Microsoft Copilot Studio (M365) platform, with a strong emphasis on Power Apps, Power Automate, Dynamics 365, and Azure AI services. This role is responsible for the hands-on engineering, enhancement, and operational health of AI and agentic solutions across IPH platforms.

The AI Engineering Lead will drive innovation in intelligent automation — enhancing customer engagement and operational efficiency in the pet insurance domain. This role will develop, integrate, and deliver agentic solutions that span enterprise platforms including Dynamics 365 CRM, Dynamics 365 Copilot agents, insurance applications, conversational interfaces, web, mobile, and back-office systems of record. The successful candidate operates comfortably at hands-on levels — owning reference implementations, leading a growing engineering team, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, data, security, and enterprise architecture leaders, operating within architecture guardrails set by AI Architecture, to deliver AI-native customer experiences at scale.

** Key Responsibilities
**** Copilot Studio (M365)
*** Build, configure, and deploy agentic AI solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio, leveraging its low-code/no-code environment to rapidly prototype and scale autonomous agents for business processes.
* Design conversational and workflow agents that integrate with Microsoft 365 apps (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint) and enterprise data sources.
* Develop custom Copilot plugins and extensions to enhance agent capabilities, including natural language understanding, task automation, and contextual reasoning.
* Implement agent safety and transparency features per established governance frameworks and compliance standards.
* Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into agent configurations and workflows.
* Agent action design — invoking Power Automate, Dataverse, REST APIs, and MCP servers.
* Produce sequence diagrams, decision trees, and agent contracts aligned to approved architecture patterns for consistent engineering execution.
** Power Platform
*** Develop and implement solutions using Power Apps for custom forms, dashboards, and mobile experiences that interact with agentic workflows.
* Build and maintain Power Automate flows to orchestrate multi-step business processes, automate repetitive tasks, and integrate with external systems (ERP, CRM, insurance platforms).
* Leverage Power Platform connectors to enable seamless data exchange between Copilot agents, Dynamics 365 CRM, and other SaaS applications.
* Develop Power Apps components for agentic interfaces, including adaptive cards, PCF controls, embedded AI models, and workflow triggers.
** Dynamics 365 Agents
*** Build and configure Dynamics 365 Copilot agents for customer service, sales, and claims workflows, leveraging D365 native agent capabilities alongside Copilot Studio extensions
* Extend Dynamics 365 agent functionality through custom plugins, Dataverse integrations, and workflow automation to support insurance-specific business processes.
* Collaborate with CRM and platform teams to ensure seamless integration between D365 agents and broader…