AI Platform Engineer (Sharepoint, OpenAI)

Hays are now looking for an AI Platform Engineer for one of our local clients: £480 p/d Inside IR35 Remote 3 month contract Seeking a Senior AI / SharePoint Engineer to lead the build of an enterprise AI evidence discovery platform using SharePoint, Azure AI services and Model Context Protocol (MCP). The role involves designing AI-powered search and retrieval capabilities across documents, emails, contracts and risk artefacts, while mentoring a junior engineer. Responsibilities - Develop MCP servers exposing SharePoint and Azure AI Search capabilities to AI agents.- Build SharePoint and Microsoft Graph ingestion pipelines for documents, emails and attachments.- Design and implement RAG and agentic AI workflows using Azure OpenAI.- Deliver hybrid search solutions combining semantic and vector retrieval.- Implement secure, permission-aware access controls using Entra ID and OAuth.- Produce production-ready solutions including testing, CI/CD, logging and documentation.- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a junior engineer. Essential Skills and Experience - MCP server development and AI agent tooling- Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, RAG and prompt engineering- SharePoint Online and Microsoft Graph API- Hybrid semantic/vector search- Enterprise API development and document processing- Azure (Functions and/or Container Apps)- Entra ID and OAuth/OIDC- CI/CD, testing and production support- Software engineering experience, ideally using Python and/or C#/.NET Desirable ..... full job details .....