Enterprise AI AZURE Software Development Architect

Job Summary

Azure AI Software Development Architect, Internet Administration, Days, Baptist Medical Center

The Azure AI Software Development Architect is responsible for designing, engineering, and operationalizing secure, scalable, and highly reliable software solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a strong emphasis on hands-on development and production readiness. This role bridges advanced software engineering with AI/ML and agentic AI systems, leveraging Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Semantic Kernel, and the Microsoft Agent Framework to build intelligent, goal-driven solutions. The architect will use AI-assisted development tools and modern coding practices to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and performance. Key initiatives include designing and implementing multi-agent systems, generative AI applications, LLM integrations, and RAG-based architectures that deliver real operational and business impact. A core focus of this role is contributing to and evolving the enterprise Agent Framework to enable the orchestration, governance, and deployment of specialized AI agents that automate and enhance IT operations in alignment with enterprise standards.

Additionally, the position will establish proactive monitoring and alert remediation processes using Azure Automation, runbooks, and modern observability tooling. The Senior Cloud Development Architect will also manage cloud governance policies—including PIM, ASR, and Azure Policy enforcement—to ensure compliance and operational integrity. A key component of this role includes contributing to modernization initiatives, migrating legacy workloads into Azure-based cloud and hybrid architectures, and aligning solutions with enterprise architecture standards to move the organization forward.

Approved Remote Locations: AL, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MS, NC, OH, OK, OR, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV, WY

For more than 25 years, health care consumers have named Baptist Health the "most preferred healthcare provider" in the region. At Baptist Health, we are proud to be local, providing multigenerational care to our community. We are the hospital Jacksonville trusts most. Our employees can take pride in their Baptist badge, knowing the impact they make on their friends, family, and neighbors. Baptist was recently recognized by Forbes magazine as one of America's top employers for diversity.

Baptist Health offers competitive pay & comprehensive benefits packages as well as opportunities for professional growth & advancement. At Baptist Health, we provide an exceptional employment experience where team members can bring their authentic selves and belong to a larger purpose together. By fostering connections with our team members and our community, we offer a fulfilling and personal career.

Azure AI Software Development Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Work closely with business and all IT teams, approve, and reconcile strategic architecture goals with the current state implementations.
• You will be responsible for driving architectural excellence across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem by defining and governing directives, principles, guidelines, and best practices for the organization to follow.
• You will also recommend iterative paths towards the adoption of strategic architecture goals.
• Hands-on technologist with significant experience in architecture and engineering of hybrid Microsoft infrastructure platforms and services, including development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices for an automation-first approach.
• Lead cultural change for cloud and automation adoption. Developing and coordinating cloud architecture with business, application, and engineering teams.
• Developing a cloud strategy and coordinating the adaptation processes. Assessing applications, software and hardware.
• Establish best practices for cloud across the company.
• Selecting cloud providers and vetting third-party services. Help develop Cloud Center of Excellence. Develop FinOps processes. Ability to think and operate at scale

• Design, build, and deploy specialized AI agents using Microsoft Semantic Kernel and the Microsoft Agent Framework to support intelligent automation across Azure environments

• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines leveraging Azure AI Search to enable knowledge-aware, context-driven agent responses

• Architect scalable, secure, and resilient AI-enabled software solutions on Microsoft Azure, aligned with enterprise and cloud-native best practices

• Apply MLOps, LLMOps, and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management for AI and agent-based systems

• Implement agent routing systems with AI-driven classification and rule-based fallback strategies

  Develop and consume Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for standardized Azure resource access

  Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf) to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality

Azure AI Software Development Architect opportunity will be located at the Baptist Jacksonville Downtown. If you are interested in this Full-Time opportunity please apply now or contact andrew.foran@bmcjax.com!

Education Required

High School Diploma/GED

Education Preferred

Bachelor's Degree

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of related experience Required
• 2–5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong background in C#/.NET
• Experience designing, building, or contributing to AI/ML systems, including chatbots, AI agents, RAG-based applications, or similar solutions (Preferred)
• Experience with DevOps, MLOps, or LLMOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based deployments (Preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and adopt new technologies in dynamic, fast-paced environments
• Experience with Microsoft Semantic Kernel, enterprise Agent Frameworks, or comparable AI agent orchestration platforms (Preferred)
• Experience building MCP servers or implementing similar tool-integration and extensibility patterns (Preferred)

License and Certification

None

Location

Location Overview

Baptist Health, founded in 1955, is North Florida’s most comprehensive health care system and the area’s only non-profit, mission-driven, locally governed health care provider. Baptist Health has over 200 points of care throughout the Northeast Florida region, including our six award-winning hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Clay, Baptist Medical Center Nassau and Baptist Medical Center South. The most preferred health care system in the region, Baptist Health also includes 57 primary care offices, as well as home health, behavioral health, pastoral care, rehabilitation services, occupational health and urgent care.