Principal Azure AI Foundry Architect - Enterprise GenAI

We're a senior-only software consultancy staffing an enterprise engagement and need a Principal-level architect to design and deliver AI solutions on Azure AI Foundry. What you'll do - Design enterprise AI architectures on Azure AI Foundry - Configure Foundry environments (projects, hubs, networking, identity) - Build working prototypes and take them to production deployment - Set up CI/CD and evaluation/observability for AI workloads You should have - 10+ years cloud architecture, 4+ years hands-on Azure AI/GenAI - Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, RAG pipelines, agentic AI patterns - Entra ID, Key Vault, and secure-by-default Azure design - Python and REST API development - Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions Nice to have - Regulated-industry experience (healthcare, insurance, fintech) - Relevant Azure certifications To apply: skip the boilerplate. In 3-5 sentences, describe a Foundry or Azure OpenAI system you architected - the use case, the retrieval/agent design, and what you'd do differently now. Include your hourly rate and weekly availability.