Power Platform & AI Solutions Architect

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions•Milwaukee, WI

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Power Platform & AI Solution Architect to serve as our Microsoft AI agent expert, with deep, hands-on capability across Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry). This role involves working directly with business teams to observe real-world processes and build practical agent solutions in real time, while also setting the architecture patterns, standards, and technical direction for internal teams and the India Center of Excellence (CoE). Business interaction and delivery are as important as standards and technical direction. Key focus areas include establishing architecture standards, design patterns, and platform guardrails across Power Platform and AI solutions, designing and building AI agents, business applications, and automation solutions directly with business stakeholders, serving as technical design authority for the India Center of Excellence, and owning Dataverse solution architecture supporting Dynamics CRM and D365 F&O. This role does not own Power Platform administration, licensing, or citizen-developer support, nor Power BI reporting or Snowflake-based analytics. It also does not own the broader Microsoft Foundry platform architecture, though it contributes to those capabilities, and it is not solely an oversight or governance function, as hands-on solution design and delivery are core. This is primarily a U.S. business-facing role, with India CoE technical direction as a secondary scope.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
8+ years of overall IT/software experience, including 5+ years architecting solutions on Microsoft Power Platform
2-3+ years of GenAI/agent development experience, with recent hands-on exposure to Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, RAG, MCP, and A2A patterns
Demonstrated architecture ownership: has set patterns, standards, and technical direction for a platform, not only delivered against another party's design
Deep, hands-on coding ability: Power Fx, custom connectors, plug-ins, and scripting (PowerShell, Python, or similar)
Experience designing grounding and integration architecture: knowledge sources, enterprise search, custom connectors, and REST/API integration
Experience with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 ecosystem integration
Experience directing distributed or offshore delivery teams, including design review, work intake, and quality standards
Strong business acumen and communication skills; comfortable working directly with business stakeholders to solve problems in real time
Experience with client-driven architectures
Exposure to machine learning concepts and solutions
Exposure to lakehouse or big data orchestration platforms
Microsoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate (Exam AB-620) or Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103)
Microsoft Power Platform certifications (PL-100, PL-200, PL-400, PL-600)
Exposure to enterprise AI governance and agent inventory/compliance tooling

Responsibilities

Partner directly with business stakeholders, observing real-world processes and rapidly building, piloting, and iterating agent solutions in real time
Facilitate discovery sessions and solution workshops that translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
Set architectural patterns, standards, and technical direction for Power Platform and Copilot Studio solutions across the organization
Design and build reference implementations, reusable components, and solution frameworks for enterprise adoption
Establish and enforce ALM practices for solution deployment across dev/test/prod environments
Design grounding and integration architecture for AI-driven agents, including RAG, MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A (Agent2Agent protocol), knowledge sources, enterprise search, custom connectors, and REST/API integrations
Provide technical direction to the India Center of Excellence: design and code review, work intake, quality standards, and overlap-hours collaboration
Document architecture decisions and provide technical mentorship across the internal team and India CoE
Own Dataverse solution architecture supporting Dynamics CRM and D365 F&O, including data modeling, security roles, and environment strategy