Senior Manager, Microsoft Agentic Solutions Architect
Deloitte Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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About the role
The Senior Manager will lead the architecture of enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions using the Microsoft ecosystem to drive client transformation. They are responsible for shaping opportunities, defining technical roadmaps, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have extensive experience in solution architecture for Microsoft AI and enterprise transformation programs within a consulting or systems integration environment. A proven track record of leading client opportunities from discovery to proposal and deep technical expertise in Microsoft AI platforms is required.
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Connect to your Industry
Deloitte's Engineering practice is at the forefront of transforming businesses by bringing together cutting-edge tech programme delivery, quality assurance, and testing expertise. We empower clients to modernise their core business through our deep capabilities in application and infrastructure engineering, cloud strategy, transformation, and migration. Practitioners within this team continuously advance their expertise to deliver robust, innovative solutions, from initial strategy to implementation and optimization.
Enterprises are moving from Copilot experimentation to production-grade agentic AI, where value depends on secure architecture, grounded knowledge, robust integration, responsible AI controls and clear adoption pathways. Clients need solution architects who can translate Microsoft AI capability into practical enterprise architectures that can be sold, delivered, governed and scaled.
We are seeking a Microsoft Agentic Solutions Architect at Senior Manager level who has shaped opportunities, led technical solutioning for clients and architected agentic solutions across Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365, Power Platform and the wider Azure AI ecosystem. You will be responsible for turning client ambition into credible architecture, delivery roadmaps, estimates and solution narratives that support profitable growth and high-quality delivery.
This is a senior client-facing architecture role for someone who combines Microsoft AI technical depth, consulting judgement, delivery awareness and commercial credibility. You will work across account teams, Microsoft alliance stakeholders, industry SMEs and engineering teams to design secure, scalable and differentiated agentic AI solutions that help clients move from pilots to production adoption.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
Success in this role will be measured by the quality of the solutions you shape, the confidence you create with clients and delivery teams, and the contribution you make to winning and scaling Microsoft AI work. You will be expected to deliver the following:
- Solution architecture leadership: lead the architecture of Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, agentic AI and enterprise AI solutions, ensuring designs are secure, scalable, reliable and aligned to client objectives.
- Opportunity shaping: work with market makers, account teams and pursuit leads to qualify opportunities, define solution options, shape scope, estimate effort and create compelling technical win themes.
- Agentic architecture design: design agent patterns, orchestration approaches, knowledge grounding, tool integration, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, evaluation and guardrail models for enterprise use cases.
- Microsoft platform alignment: advise clients on when to use Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Foundry Agent Service, Power Platform, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Graph and related controls as part of an integrated Microsoft AI architecture.
- Delivery confidence: translate solution concepts into pragmatic delivery plans, architecture decisions, non-functional requirements, dependencies, risk assumptions and mobilisation approaches that delivery teams can execute.
- Executive and technical advisory: communicate with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, business sponsors, security leaders and engineering teams, adapting the message from board-level value narrative through to architecture-level detail.
- Reusable capability: help build reference architectures, accelerators, demo patterns, estimation models, proposal content and technical playbooks that improve consistency across Microsoft agentic AI pursuits and delivery.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
- Proven experience at Senior Manager level or equivalent, leading solution architecture for Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 or enterprise AI transformation programmes in a consulting, systems integrator or enterprise technology environment.
- A strong track record of shaping client opportunities from discovery through to proposal, including solution strategy, architecture options, delivery approach, assumptions, dependencies, estimates, commercial inputs and executive-level solution presentations.
- Experience designing across Microsoft AI and agentic architecture, including Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio Agents, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Graph, connectors, Power Platform, identity, security, compliance and governance considerations.
- Practical understanding of agentic AI design patterns, including orchestration, grounding, RAG, enterprise knowledge layers, tool use, MCP or API-based integration, agent identity, evaluation, monitoring, guardrails and human approval workflows.
- Ability to translate business problems into AI-enabled solution architectures that deliver measurable outcomes across productivity, service improvement, automation, knowledge management, employee experience, risk reduction and operating model change.
- Experience working with enterprise architecture, security, data, integration, change and delivery teams to ensure AI solutions are robust, responsible, implementable and aligned to client technology standards.
- Strong understanding of delivery lifecycle considerations, including use case prioritisation, data readiness, security review, responsible AI assessment, adoption planning, value tracking, testing, release management and operational support.
- Experience working with Microsoft account teams, partner specialists or stakeholders to shape joint solutions, respond to client demand and support co-sell or partner-led opportunities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to facilitate senior workshops, challenge assumptions constructively and make complex architecture decisions understandable to non-technical stakeholders.
- Commercial judgement, including the ability to balance ambition with delivery risk, shape phased roadmaps, identify scope boundaries, articulate trade-offs and support pricing or resourcing assumptions.
- A collaborative leadership style, with experience guiding senior managers, architects, engineers, adoption specialists and SMEs around a common solution vision.
The following will be desirable skills:
- Experience in creating reference architectures, reusable delivery patterns, demos, accelerators or technical propositions for Copilot, agentic AI, AI-enabled workflow automation or enterprise knowledge solutions.
- Experience architecting AI solutions across sectors such as financial services, insurance, public sector, energy, consumer, or professional services.
- Understanding of responsible AI governance, AI operating models, data governance, regulatory considerations, cyber resilience, threat modelling, privacy and enterprise risk management for AI solutions.
- Relevant Microsoft certifications or recognised credentials across Azure AI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure architecture, security, data or AI transformation leadership.
- Understand how to design managed services, AI factories, agent factories, platform engineering models or reusable enablement approaches that help clients scale beyond initial AI pilots.
- Experience developing thought leadership, client briefings, technical papers, executive workshops or architecture narratives that create confidence in Microsoft agentic AI adoption.
- Experience mentoring architects and solutions leads to improve how Microsoft AI opportunities are qualified, solutioned, priced and delivered.
Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation
Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Engineering, AI and Data
We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further details as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
Connect with your colleagues
“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, T&T
"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.” - Rhiannon, T&T
“Everyone always says, “it’s the people,” and that’s true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don’t have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital.” - Gillian, T&T
Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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Basic information
Location
Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester
Business Line
Technology & Transformation
Job Type
Permanent / FTC
Date published
06-Oct-2026
Req #
25393
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