AI Consultant
CPSReading, England, United Kingdom
Added 11 Jun · still live
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Salary
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£45,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
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About the role
Role Overview
As an AI Solutions Consultant, you will play a key role in helping organisations adopt and realise value from Microsoft's AI technologies. Working closely with customers across the public, private and non-profit sectors, you will facilitate workshops, identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation, and design and deliver solutions using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform and related technologies.
This is a customer-facing consulting role focused on helping organisations improve productivity, automate business processes and implement agentic AI solutions. You will work across the full project lifecycle, from discovery and business process mapping through to solution build, testing, deployment and user adoption.
The role offers an opportunity to work on some of the most innovative AI projects in the Microsoft ecosystem while developing deep expertise in emerging technologies such as Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI and Agentic AI.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Customer Delivery
As an AI Solutions Consultant, you will play a key role in helping organisations adopt and realise value from Microsoft's AI technologies. Working closely with customers across the public, private and non-profit sectors, you will facilitate workshops, identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation, and design and deliver solutions using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform and related technologies.
This is a customer-facing consulting role focused on helping organisations improve productivity, automate business processes and implement agentic AI solutions. You will work across the full project lifecycle, from discovery and business process mapping through to solution build, testing, deployment and user adoption.
The role offers an opportunity to work on some of the most innovative AI projects in the Microsoft ecosystem while developing deep expertise in emerging technologies such as Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI and Agentic AI.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Customer Delivery
- Deliver customer engagements focused on Microsoft AI technologies, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat and Copilot Studio
- Facilitate discovery workshops to understand business challenges, processes and opportunities for AI-driven transformation
- Conduct business process mapping activities and identify opportunities for automation and optimisation
- Design and build AI solutions using Copilot Studio, Agent Builder and Power Platform
- Configure knowledge sources, actions, workflows and integrations to support customer requirements
- Deliver demonstrations, training sessions and enablement workshops for both technical and business audiences
- Support user acceptance testing, solution validation and production deployment activities
- Document findings, recommendations, designs and implementation plans to a high standard
AI Consulting & Advisory
Essential
- Help customers develop AI roadmaps, use cases and adoption strategies
- Support the creation of business cases and ROI assessments for AI initiatives
- Advise customers on governance, security, compliance and responsible AI practices
- Support customers in establishing operating models for AI and agent-based solutions
- Stay current with Microsoft's rapidly evolving AI technologies and roadmap
- Build and maintain demonstration environments and reusable solution accelerators
- Contribute to the development of new AI propositions and services within CPS
- Share knowledge internally through mentoring, training sessions and best practice guidance
- Create blogs, presentations and thought leadership content that promotes CPS as a leader in AI transformation
- Support CPS in achieving and maintaining Microsoft partner accreditations and specialisations
Essential
- Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Custom agents
- Agent Builder
- Knowledge sources
- Actions and workflows
- Testing and optimisation
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Copilot Chat
- Copilot in Microsoft 365 applications
- Adoption and enablement
- Prompt engineering and best practices
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Power Automate
- Power Apps fundamentals
- Dataverse fundamentals
- Connectors and integrations
- Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- Business process mapping and requirements gathering experience
- Experience delivering customer-facing consulting engagements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical AI solutions
Desirable
The following certifications are highly desirable:
CPS Benefits
Some of the benefits which are integrated as part of being a colleague at CPS includes:
- Microsoft Fabric
- OneLake
- Power BI
- Data Engineering concepts
- Data integration and analytics
- Azure AI
- Azure AI Foundry
- Generative AI concepts
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Agentic AI solutions
- SharePoint and Microsoft 365 administration knowledge
- Experience with AI governance, security and compliance
- Experience working within Microsoft partner organisations
- Experience delivering change management, adoption and enablement programmes
The following certifications are highly desirable:
- AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- PL-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals
- PL-200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant
- AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Associate
- DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- Build custom agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Create copilots with generative AI
- Build agentic solutions using Azure AI Foundry
- Develop AI applications with Azure AI technologies
CPS Benefits
Some of the benefits which are integrated as part of being a colleague at CPS includes:
- 9 Day Fortnight - three day weekend every other week
- Vitality - Private Medical Insurance
- YuLife - Income Protection and employee discounts benefits
- Health Assured - Employee Wellbeing Support
- Medicash - Health Cash Plan
- 25 days holiday - increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years and to 28 days after 5 years
- Have your birthday as an additional day off from work. Can be adjusted to be taken within a week of your birthday if that is your preference
- Quarterly and annual star performer awards and rewarded with prizes - voted for by your peers and colleagues
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2113 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~39k in sampleP25 £38kP75 £57k
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