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AI Platform Engineer

In short

This role involves building MCP servers and AI agent tooling that expose SharePoint and Azure AI Search capabilities, implementing RAG and agentic AI workflows with Azure OpenAI, and delivering hybrid semantic/vector search solutions. It's a 3-month contract (Inside IR35) at £480 per day, requiring deep experience with Azure OpenAI, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Graph API, Entra ID/OAuth, and Python or C#/.NET, plus providing technical leadership and mentoring a junior engineer.

Description
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Responsibilities
•Develop MCP servers exposing SharePoint and Azure AI Search capabilities to AI agents
•Build SharePoint and Microsoft Graph ingestion pipelines for documents, emails, and attachments
•Design and implement RAG and agentic AI workflows using Azure OpenAI
•Deliver hybrid search solutions combining semantic and vector retrieval
•Implement secure, permission-aware access controls using Entra ID and OAuth
•Produce production-ready solutions, including testing, CI/CD, logging, and documentation
•Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a junior engineer
Requirements
•Experience developing MCP servers and AI agent tooling
•Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, RAG, and prompt engineering
•Experience with SharePoint Online and Microsoft Graph API
•Experience with hybrid semantic/vector search, enterprise API development, and document processing
•Experience with Azure Functions and/or Container Apps, Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC, CI/CD, testing, and production support
•Software engineering experience, ideally using Python and/or C#/.NET
Nice to have
•Microsoft 365 Copilot
•Microsoft Purview
•Enterprise knowledge management
•Legal/eDiscovery solutions
•Regulated or public-sector environments
Conditions
•£480 per day, Inside IR35
•3-month contract

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