Job Summary The Enterprise Architect will define and govern the enterprise architecture approach for Microsoft Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Claude Cowork, Copilot agents, and related agentic AI capabilities. The role will establish architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, solution guardrails, and governance practices to support secure, compliant, scalable, and policy-aligned adoption across the enterprise. The architect will work closely with enterprise architecture, security, risk, compliance, privacy, data governance, platform, engineering, workforce technology, and business teams to enable responsible AI adoption while protecting enterprise data and reducing delivery risk. Key Responsibilities • Define the enterprise architecture approach for Microsoft Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Claude Cowork, Copilot agents, and related agentic AI capabilities. • Create and maintain architecture standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and solution guardrails for secure and governed adoption. • Lead solution design for Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, and Claude Cowork implementations, ensuring clear business purpose, approved data sources, defined ownership, security controls, and measurable outcomes. • Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, Data Governance, Workforce Technology, and platform administration teams to align solutions with enterprise policies and standards. • Define guidance for knowledge sources, connectors, actions, prompts, approvals, grounding, monitoring, and human oversight. • Shape environment strategy, data policies, application lifecycle management, deployment controls, usage visibility, billing controls, and operational support practices. • Define endpoint governance, access controls, and usage policies for Claude Cowork and support proof-of-concept evaluation and transition to production where approved. • Establish architecture review criteria and reusable checklists for Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Claude Cowork, and Copilot agent solutions. • Provide hands-on architecture guidance to delivery teams throughout concept, design, development, testing, deployment, and production readiness. • Define integration patterns across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Dataverse, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Microsoft Graph, Anthropic Claude, APIs, enterprise applications, workflow platforms, and knowledge repositories. • Develop patterns for observability, audit trails, task execution visibility, quality evaluation, prompt testing, incident response, and continuous improvement. • Evaluate emerging Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Claude Cowork, Power Platform, Azure AI, Agent 365, and agentic AI capabilities for enterprise applicability. • Facilitate architecture governance discussions and approvals, promoting reuse, consistency, policy alignment, and risk-based decision making. • Communicate architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, standards, and recommendations clearly to executive, business, architecture, engineering, and platform stakeholders. • Mentor architects, makers, and engineering teams on enterprise-ready Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, and Claude Cowork design practices. • Develop enterprise component standards, reusable design pattern catalogs, solution design templates, architecture review checklists, and decision records. • Provide platform selection guidance for determining when to use Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, or Claude Cowork for specific business scenarios. • Develop environment, tenant, lifecycle management, deployment, and support model guidance for enterprise adoption. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience. • 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform architecture, software engineering, cloud engineering, or technology delivery. • Experience designing and governing enterprise solutions across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, cloud, SaaS, data, integration, and enterprise application environments. • Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Claude Cowork, Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility, Power Platform, Power Automate, Dataverse, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, Azure services, or comparable AI and automation platforms. • Proven experience creating architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, solution guardrails, and architecture review criteria. • Strong understanding of identity and access management, data loss prevention, connector governance, API security, endpoint security, logging, monitoring, billing controls, and operational readiness. • Strong understanding of responsible AI, AI governance, human oversight, content grounding, privacy, sensitive data handling, auditability, and compliance expectations. • Experience designing integrations across APIs, Microsoft 365 services, enterprise applications, workflow platforms, data platforms, and knowledge repositories. • Experience working within Agile, DevOps, SDLC, architecture governance, technology risk management, and change management practices. • Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to explain complex architecture topics to both executive and technical audiences.