Senior Azure AI Software Engineer

TEKsystems•Olathe, KS

3d•$10 - $11•Onsite

About The Position

Seeking an Azure AI Software Engineer contractor to help develop and harden a production Azure-based AI document auditing platform. This is not a greenfield prototype, and we need someone who has shipped production Microsoft/Azure systems and can contribute hands-on across backend engineering, AI workflow reliability, and operational hardening. The current platform includes Python services running on Azure Functions, Durable Functions, and Durable Task Scheduler; Azure AI Foundry / Microsoft Agent Framework; SharePoint and Microsoft Graph ingestion workflows; Azure Service Bus; Blob Storage; and SQL Server.

Requirements

Azure
Python
CI/CD
Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft Agent Framework
Azure OpenAI
Azure Document Intelligence
azure functions
The project is entirely within the Microsoft Azure stack, utilizing tools like AI Foundry (Microsoft Agent Framework), Document Intelligence/Content Understanding, and requires strong Python skills.

Responsibilities

Extending and maintaining event-driven Azure Functions workflows for document ingestion and AI processing
Improving orchestration reliability, AI agent behavior and lifecycle management, evaluation quality, and production observability
Working with SharePoint / Microsoft Graph integrations, queue-based processing, APIs, and reporting/export flows
Partnering closely with me as lead engineer on technical implementation
Participating in stakeholder check-ins and providing clear updates on progress
Adding and maintaining tests, logging, error handling, and operational documentation