AI Copilot Developer Lead

About The Role

This senior technical role leads the delivery of innovative, AI‑driven agentic and automation solutions that improve efficiency, strengthen decision‑making, and deliver positive outcomes across the council and its services. The postholder will oversee the end‑to‑end design, development, optimisation, and assurance of enterprise‑scale AI agents and automation, with a strong focus on Microsoft Copilot and the Power Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as technical authority for Copilot and AI automation, making architectural decisions on how solutions integrate with enterprise systems, data sources and security models.
• Lead complex discovery and feasibility work for cross‑departmental initiatives, balancing risk, effort, cost and user needs while working with multiple stakeholders.
• Define, maintain and drive adoption of robust engineering standards covering prompting patterns, testing, evaluation, release, monitoring...