Frontier Tools Architect - Agents and Intelligent Platform

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Reading, Berkshire, England, GBR
In-Office
78K-133K Annually
Senior level
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The Role
Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog for an AI agent and intelligent platform. Productize transformation capabilities into reusable agents, accelerators, connectors, templates, and telemetry. Partner with engineering and transformation teams to define and ship features, embed security and governance, measure value, manage releases, and enable customer adoption across engagements.
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Overview

The Frontier Transformation Framework helps our customers become Frontier Firms: organizations where AI is not a tool added to the business but part of the operating system the business runs on. Every phase of that journey is carried by eight delivery capabilities — Trust and Governance, Frontier Change, Human-Agent System Design, Organisational AI Capability Building, Value Creation and Management, Continuous Improvement, Experience, and Copilot and AI Intelligence Layers. Today these capabilities are delivered largely by people and point solutions. To scale them across every customer, sector, and engagement, they are required to be productized into a common platform that our teams and our customers can run on. 

We are seeking a Frontier Tools Architect to build the Agent and Intelligent Platform that enables the eight capabilities to execute with customers. In this role, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and backlog for the agents, accelerators, and intelligence tooling that turn framework capabilities into repeatable, instrumented software. You will translate how our architects, change practitioners, governance leads, and delivery teams work into platform features — building on Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365, and grounded in the Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ intelligence layers — so that what is designed once can be deployed, measured, and improved everywhere. 

This is a role for people who can move from a delivery-team pain point to a shipped product feature, who are equally credible with an engineering pod and with a transformation lead in front of a customer, and who are energized by turning eight distinct disciplines into one coherent platform. You will decide what to build and what to reuse; you will define the telemetry that proves value; and you will make the platform the fastest, safest way to deliver Frontier Transformation at scale. If you are excited by the opportunity to build the machinery that an entire transformation practice runs on, this role is for you. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  


Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities 

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Agent and Intelligent Platform, sequencing investment so each of the eight capabilities is progressively productized rather than delivered by hand. 

Translate the delivery motions of the eight capabilities into reusable platform components — agents, accelerators, templates, connectors, and instrumentation — that teams can deploy directly on customer engagements. 

Define and manage the platform backlog, writing clear requirements and acceptance criteria, prioritizing against customer impact, reuse potential, and delivery risk. 

Build on the Microsoft AI platform — Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365 — and design how the platform consumes the Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ intelligence layers to give agents personal, operational, and authoritative context. 

Partner with engineering pods, business architects, human-agent system designers, change practitioners, and governance leads to convert capability blueprints into technical requirements and shipped features. 

Embed Security into the platform by design — security, compliance, monitoring, and named accountability for agent quality and behavior — so governance evolves alongside capability rather than behind it. 

Define the telemetry and value metrics the platform captures, so cycle-time, capacity, adoption, and P&L impact are measurable and visible to delivery teams and executive sponsors. 

Run the operating rhythm for the platform — intake, releases, feedback loops, and a continuous improvement cadence that retires, extends, and hardens components based on real engagement signals. 

Enable delivery teams and customers to adopt the platform through documentation, patterns, and enablement, so capabilities can be operated and extended independently after the engagement fades.Success in this role looks like 

The eight capabilities are increasingly delivered through the platform, reducing the manual effort required on each engagement. 

Agents, accelerators, and tooling built once are reused across multiple customers and sectors. 

Platform telemetry quantifies capacity unlocked, cycle-time reduction, and P&L impact, and that evidence is visible to executive sponsors. 

Governance, security, and accountability controls are built into the platform and satisfy regulated-industry requirements. 

Delivery teams adopt the platform as the fastest, safest default way to deliver Frontier Transformation, and customers can operate and extend it independently. 


Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, AND several years of product build experience for software, platform, or tooling products OR equivalent experience.
  • Proven track record owning a product or platform from strategy through roadmap, delivery, and adoption.
  • Experience productizing internal or delivery capabilities into reusable, instrumented software used at scale.
  • Hands-on understanding of building AI agents and applications, including agent orchestration, tooling, and integration patterns.
  • Experience in translating the needs of delivery, engineering, change, and governance teams into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Experience working directly with engineering teams and with stakeholders in a customer or executive setting.

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Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree (MBA or a relevant technical discipline) or equivalent advanced qualification.
  • Working knowledge of the Microsoft AI platform, including Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365.
  • Understanding of the Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ intelligence layers and semantic-layer / data-architecture concepts.
  • Experience building or integrating governance, security, and compliance controls into AI products for regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with the disciplines behind the eight capabilities — human-agent system design, change management, value management, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience with platform enablement — documentation, reusable patterns, and capability transfer to delivery teams and customers.

Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 77,600.00 - £ 132,500.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Several years of product build experience for software, platform, or tooling products, or equivalent experience
  • Proven track record owning a product or platform from strategy through roadmap, delivery, and adoption
  • Experience productizing internal or delivery capabilities into reusable, instrumented software used at scale
  • Hands-on understanding of building AI agents and applications, including agent orchestration, tooling, and integration patterns
  • Experience translating delivery, engineering, change, and governance needs into product requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Experience working directly with engineering teams and customer or executive stakeholders
  • Master's degree, MBA, or relevant advanced qualification
  • Working knowledge of Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365
  • Understanding of Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, semantic-layer, and data-architecture concepts
  • Experience integrating governance, security, and compliance controls into AI products for regulated industries
  • Familiarity with human-agent system design, change management, value management, and continuous improvement
  • Experience with platform enablement, documentation, reusable patterns, and capability transfer

Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with preventive care coverage, vision options, and annual out-of-pocket limits. Feedback suggests medical, mental-health, and disability support are a major strength of the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Family support is expansive, including parental leave, family caregiver leave, child-care assistance, family concierge services, fertility options, and college-advising support for eligible employees. Feedback suggests these benefits meaningfully ease caregiving and family planning demands.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include counseling and employee-assistance services, wellness reimbursements, product discounts, and charitable-matching programs. Feedback suggests these extras complement core benefits and support day-to-day quality of life.

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