About the role
This senior technical role leads the delivery of innovative, AI‑driven agentic and automation solutions that improve efficiency, strengthen decision‑making, and deliver positive outcomes across the council and its services. The postholder will oversee the end‑to‑end design, development, optimisation, and assurance of enterprise‑scale AI agents and automation, with a strong focus on Microsoft Copilot and the Power Platform.
You will act as the technical authority for Copilot and AI automation, making architectural decisions on how solutions integrate with enterprise systems, data sources, and security models. The role involves leading complex discovery and feasibility work for cross‑departmental initiatives, balancing risk, effort, cost, and user needs while working with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. You will define, maintain, and drive adoption of robust engineering standards covering prompting patterns, testing, evaluation, release, monitoring, and auditability, ensuring solutions are production‑grade and fit for scale.
Alongside hands‑on technical delivery, you will research emerging AI technologies, pilot innovative approaches for council adoption, and contribute to the development of council‑wide AI strategy and governance. You will provide technical leadership, mentoring junior developers, reviewing work, and acting as the senior escalation point for high‑risk, complex, or novel AI and Copilot use cases. The role also includes managing technical relationships with external suppliers and vendors, resolving complex integration and troubleshooting challenges, and setting best practices and quality standards for Copilot development across the organisation.
About the team
You will be part of a specialist AI and automation capability, working closely with the council’s AI Centre of Excellence and a wide range of business stakeholders. The team focuses on delivering real, operationally embedded AI solutions rather than experiments, supporting services across the council to work smarter and more effectively. Collaboration, strong technical governance, and a shared commitment to responsible and secure AI adoption sit at the core of how the team operates.
Key requirements
Essential
1. Minimum of 2 years’ experience architecting and creating Microsoft Copilot agents.
2. Proven track record of delivering complex automation and system integrations with measurable business impact.
3. At least 3 years’ advanced experience with the Microsoft Power Platform, including custom connectors and advanced workflows.
4. Significant experience in AI and machine learning development.
5. Demonstrated ability to make, justify, and implement architecture decisions with appropriate consideration of security, integration, cost, user needs, and delivery timelines.
6. Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to mentor and guide developers and assure quality.
7. Experience managing stakeholder relationships across multiple business areas and providing strategic technical recommendations.
Desirable
8. Experience in public sector digital transformation or large‑scale organisational change, with an understanding of local government processes and regulatory requirements.
9. Professional qualifications in advanced AI agent development, enterprise architecture, project management, or related technical disciplines.
10. Knowledge of Azure cloud services and enterprise integration patterns, including Azure AI Engineering.
11. Experience contributing to organisational technology strategy, standards, and governance.
12. Proven delivery of secure enterprise integration patterns covering identity, permissions, and data handling.
13. Experience applying enterprise architecture principles and multi‑system integration patterns.
14. Experience establishing and applying enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements.
Why join us?
This role offers the opportunity to lead real, production‑grade AI and Microsoft Copilot solutions at scale, not proofs of concept. You will shape how AI is designed, governed, and deployed across a large organisation, delivering Copilot agents that have tangible, organisation‑wide impact. You will have the authority to set technical standards, define architecture direction, and influence strategy, while remaining hands‑on with complex, multi‑system integrations.
We offer meaningful technical challenges, strong support for hybrid working, and the chance to apply AI where it genuinely improves services and how people work. If you want your Power Platform and Copilot expertise to have purpose, scale, and visibility, this role delivers all three.
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund'
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
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If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.
Closing date: 25th May 2026
Interview date:
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. Seemore