AI Azure Foundry Engineer
SD Worx Group7 months ago
Armilla, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy intelligent automation solutions across Payroll, Products, and other internal functions using Azure AI Foundry and the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
- Develop production-grade Python services and secure integrations with AI models, enterprise applications, APIs, and business systems.
- Create reusable AI components, frameworks, engineering patterns, and technical standards for adoption across teams.
- Deliver intelligent document processing, NLP workflows, AI assistants, agentic automation, RAG, RAA, knowledge management, and enterprise search solutions.
- Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation, embeddings, vector indexing, retrieval, monitoring, and evaluation pipelines.
- Define and promote best practices for prompt engineering, model governance, security, AI evaluation, responsible AI, telemetry, traceability, and prompt management.
- Collaborate with Payroll, Product, business SMEs, and Smart Automation engineers to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, technical design decisions, performance optimization, incident reviews, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure production solutions include testing, observability, monitoring, secure software development, Content Safety controls, grounding, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI guardrails.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 5 years of hands-on production Python development experience, including backend development, APIs, automation, integrations, testing, and software engineering practices.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
- At least 3 years of experience delivering AI or machine-learning solutions in production or enterprise environments.
- Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, AI model workflows, vector search, secure prompt pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.
- Ability to design scalable AI automation solutions and communicate AI capabilities, limitations, risks, and value to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience applying version control, peer-reviewed pull requests, unit testing, observability, monitoring, Managed Identity, Azure Key Vault, Zero Trust principles, and responsible AI practices.
- Ability to collaborate proactively with business subject-matter experts, share reusable components and technical knowledge, and raise risks and blockers early.
Benefits
- Comprehensive training and development programs, individual training support, an individual development plan, and professional training.
- Flexible working schedule.
- Private medical insurance fully covered by SD Worx.
- 25 vacation days and 18 hours for personal matters.
- Reduced summer schedule of 36 hours per week instead of 40 for four weeks chosen in July or August.
- Edenred flexible-retribution options, including meal and transport vouchers.
- Laptop and equipment provided.
- Workation opportunity from any SD Worx location for up to four weeks per year within the EU.
- Career growth opportunities for specialist and broader professional development.
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About SD Worx Group
SD Worx Group builds payroll, HR, and time management software and provides outsourcing, consultancy, and compliance services for employers across Europe. The privately held company, founded in 1945 and headquartered in Antwerp, supports more than 100,000 organizations and processes pay for over 6 million employees each month in 26 countries. Its business spans cloud applications plus managed services, enabling local payroll at scale and multi-country HR operations.