Location: Ottawa, ON, Hybrid, with remote flexibility for the right candidate
Language: English, strong written and spoken communication required. Bilingual English/French is an asset.
Duration: 6-month contract
About the Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on Innovation & AI Solution Architect to turn promising ideas into secure, scalable AI solutions within a Microsoft-first environment. You’ll work across a diverse portfolio of innovation initiatives, translating business requirements into practical AI agents, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.
Working closely with business analysts, subject matter experts, and digital teams within a national organization, you’ll combine architecture with hands-on building. Your work will help teams responsibly adopt AI while maintaining Canadian data residency, strong governance, and security by default.
What’s In It for You
You’ll have the prospect to work at the forefront of enterprise AI, tackling varied use cases while gaining exposure to Microsoft’s evolving AI ecosystem. This is a collaborative environment where you can bring ideas forward, build reusable solutions,
coach others, and see your technical work move from concept through validation and handoff.
Your Responsibilities
- You’ll design end-to-end AI architectures using patterns such as single-agent, multi-agent, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and workflow automation.
- You’ll build and test conversational and agentic solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, and Microsoft Agent Framework.
- You’ll apply prompt engineering, grounding, guardrails, Model Context Protocol (MCP), connectors, and multi-agent orchestration.
- You’ll develop RAG pipelines, integrations, proof-of-concept environments, and reusable agent and prompt components.
- You’ll establish evaluation and monitoring approaches covering accuracy, safety, traceability, cost, and latency.
- You’ll embed responsible AI, privacy, Canadian data residency, identity, governance, and security controls into solution designs.
- You’ll provide technical documentation, coaching, knowledge
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