AI & Data Governance Engineer

Cyclotron, Inc.•Chicago, IL

7d•$115,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

Cyclotron's AI Transformation Group is hiring an AI & Data Governance Consultant to help enterprise clients govern AI and agents across the Microsoft estate. This is a hands-on, client-facing role with a broad remit: your center of gravity is AI and agent governance and data governance, with solid working skills in Power Platform and platform and workload governance. You will configure Copilot Studio and agent guardrails, build Purview controls that make Copilot safe to scale, run intake and lifecycle processes, and produce the frameworks and playbooks our clients operate from. You will work alongside a Sr. AI Governance Consultant on larger programs and own workstreams end to end on smaller ones. The right person has implemented governance in real tenants, is starting to design it, and wants to grow into leading engagements.

Requirements

4+ years of enterprise Microsoft platform experience, with 2+ years hands-on in Copilot, Copilot Studio, Purview, or Power Platform governance or administration.
Hands-on Copilot Studio experience, including agent publishing, security settings, knowledge sources, connectors, and how agents interact with Microsoft 365.
Hands-on Microsoft Purview experience: sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, and audit, ideally applied to Copilot or agent scenarios.
Working Power Platform governance experience: environment strategy, DLP, managed environments, and PPAC administration.
Solid understanding of Entra ID, least privilege, conditional access, and RBAC as they apply to AI and data controls.
Evidence of implementing governance in production tenants, with some exposure to designing or recommending the approach.
Clear, confident client communication and strong emotional intelligence; you can hold your own with technical leads and brief executives with support.
Able to work remotely within the United States or Canada with reliable overlap for Eastern and Central business hours.
Governance-fluent bar: we are looking for someone visibly engaged with how Microsoft AI, data, and automation platforms are governed at enterprise scale. You don't need to check every box below, but the majority should feel like a clear “yes,” and you should be ready to walk us through the relevant ones in a portfolio review:
You have configured Copilot Studio or Agent Builder governance controls in a real tenant and can walk through the choices you made.
You have run an oversharing or data readiness assessment ahead of a Copilot or agent rollout.
You have supported an agent intake, approval, or CoE process that clients actually used.
You follow the release plans for Copilot Studio, Agent 365, and Purview and try features in preview.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Fabric and Dataverse-to-Fabric integration patterns.
Azure AI services: Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, AI Search, and content safety.
Familiarity with responsible AI frameworks such as NIST AI RMF or ISO/IEC 42001.
ServiceNow or ITSM-based intake and approval workflows.
Certifications such as SC-401, SC-900, PL-900, AB-100, or MS-102, or equivalent experience.
Consulting or professional services experience.

Responsibilities

Implement agent lifecycle governance across Agent Builder, SharePoint agents, Copilot Studio, and Copilot connectors: intake forms and routing, maker access and publishing models, ownership change processes, monitoring, and retirement.
Configure Copilot Studio-specific DLP and connector policy (event triggers, channels, knowledge sources, HTTP requests, Graph and federated connectors) and credit consumption caps.
Support Agent 365 governance: agent inventory, identity, policy, and audit alongside Defender, Purview, and Entra ID.
Build AI CoE operating artifacts: roles and responsibilities, monitoring cadences, Agent Insights reporting, and review and escalation workflows.
Contribute to AI Opportunity Labs: AI solution and agent inventory, risk and security gap analysis, and governance maturity scoring.
Configure Microsoft Purview for AI readiness: sensitivity labels, DLP, information protection, retention, audit, and DSPM for AI.
Perform data estate and oversharing assessments across SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, and recommend remediation before Copilot and agents go broad.
Support catalog, classification, lineage, and data ownership work in Purview and Fabric, and govern Dataverse data used by apps and agents.
Configure environments, environment groups, managed environments, and security group and role assignments; validate DLP impact on existing resources.
Implement ALM processes with Power Platform Pipelines or Azure DevOps, including approval gates and end-to-end test deployments.
Deploy and report from the CoE Starter Kit and Copilot Studio Starter Kit.
Apply Microsoft 365 and Azure governance fundamentals where they touch AI: external sharing, retention, Azure Policy, and RBAC.
Act as a trusted advisor to client administrators, platform owners, and security teams; explain governance trade-offs clearly.
Co-lead governance workshops, discovery sessions, and knowledge transfer; deliver instructor-led training on Copilot Studio governance when needed.
Contribute to deliverables: governance frameworks, intake and lifecycle playbooks, runbooks, validation summaries, and decision logs.