Agent 365 & AI Engineer - Freelancer/Contractual

Position Title: Agent 365 & AI Engineer

Experience required: 4-8+ years in Microsoft cloud / automation / AI engineering

Nature of Job: Freelance/ Contractual

Bandwidth expected: 70-100% of total 6-month duration

Working arrangement: Mostly remote

About Management Partners

Management Partners (MP) provides top-management consultancy services across the Middle East to leading public and private sector entities. MP has 3 main service lines: Economic Development, Corporate & Business Strategy, Business & Technology Transformation. Management Partners has offices in Dubai/ UAE, Manama/ Bahrain, Baghdad/ Iraq and Riyadh/ KSA.

Role purpose

A hands-on Microsoft AI/agent engineer responsible for implementing Agent 365 Implementation, including agent registration, identity, access, integrations, governance controls, testing and deployment.

Required skills

• Microsoft AI agent technologies
• Agent governance and lifecycle management
• Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem
• Copilot Studio or closely related Microsoft agent technologies
• Agent identity and authentication
• Microsoft Entra integration
• Connectors and plugins
• REST APIs / application integrations
• Data-source connectivity
• OAuth / delegated and application permissions concepts
• Least privilege
• Tools/actions and action authorization
• Human-in-the-loop / approval controls
• Microsoft 365 data sources
• Logging and monitoring
• AI security concepts
• Prompt-injection risks
• Sensitive-data exposure
• Shadow/unapproved agents
• Agent testing
• Production deployment and troubleshooting

Desired background

• 4–8+ years of Microsoft cloud / automation / AI engineering
• Strong hands-on Microsoft Copilot/agent or Power Platform integration experience
• Experience securing identities, APIs, connectors and data access
• Recent exposure to Microsoft agent-governance technologies
• Ability to configure and troubleshoot rather than operate only at architecture level