Associate Director, CoPilot Studio Solution Architect

Invesco Ltd. • Houston, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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 ID, OAuth 2.0, On-Behalf-Of flow), Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, and enterprise integration patterns (REST, Logic Apps, API Management).
• Experience operating within regulated environments — financial services preferred — including data classification, DLP, and audit controls.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural governance forums and mentor multi-disciplinary teams of professional developers and citizen makers.
• Experience with Power Platform CLI, and Power Platform Pipelines for end-to-end ALM.
• Architectural Thinking: Able to design coherent, scalable, and secure end-to-end solutions that span low-code, pro-code, AI, and enterprise integration layers.
• Technical Excellence: Superior hands-on knowledge of CoPilot Studio, Power Platform, and Azure AI; able to translate technical capabilities into clear business value.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g. AB-100, PL-600, PL-400, AI-102) would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience integrating CoPilot Studio with line-of-business platforms in asset management, wealth, or capital markets would be a distinct advantage.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 DevOps / GitHub.
• Define and enforce guardrails for CoPilot Studio — Data Loss Prevention policies, environment strategy, authentication (Entra ID, 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed