AI & Data Governance Engineer

Job Type: FTE
Level: Mid to Senior
Department: AI Transformation Group
Location: Remote (US or Canada)
Rate: $115,000 to $140,000 USD (rates vary in Canada)

Position Overview
Cyclotron’s AI Transformation Group is hiring an AI & Data Governance Consultant to help enterprise clients govern AI and agents across the Microsoft estate. This is a hands-on, client-facing role with a broad remit: your center of gravity is AI and agent governance and data governance, with solid working skills in Power Platform and platform and workload governance. You will configure Copilot Studio and agent guardrails, build Purview controls that make Copilot safe to scale, run intake and lifecycle processes, and produce the frameworks and playbooks our clients operate from. You will work alongside a Sr. AI Governance Consultant on larger programs and own workstreams end to end on smaller ones. The right person has implemented governance in real tenants, is starting to design it, and wants to grow into leading engagements.

Responsibilities
AI & Agent Governance

• Implement agent lifecycle governance across Agent Builder, SharePoint agents, Copilot Studio, and Copilot connectors: intake forms and routing, maker access and publishing models, ownership change processes, monitoring, and retirement.
• Configure Copilot Studio-specific DLP and connector policy (event triggers, channels, knowledge sources, HTTP requests, Graph and federated connectors) and credit consumption caps.
• Support Agent 365 governance: agent inventory, identity, policy, and audit alongside Defender, Purview, and Entra ID.
• Build AI CoE operating artifacts: roles and responsibilities, monitoring cadences, Agent Insights reporting, and review and escalation workflows.
• Contribute to AI Opportunity Labs: AI solution and agent inventory, risk and security gap analysis, and governance maturity scoring.

Data Governance

• Configure Microsoft Purview for AI readiness: sensitivity labels, DLP, information protection, retention, audit, and DSPM for AI.
• Perform data estate and oversharing assessments across SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, and recommend remediation before Copilot and agents go broad.
• Support catalog, classification, lineage, and data ownership work in Purview and Fabric, and govern Dataverse data used by apps and agents.

Power Platform & Platform Governance

• Configure environments, environment groups, managed environments, and security group and role assignments; validate DLP impact on existing resources.
• Implement ALM processes with Power Platform Pipelines or Azure DevOps, including approval gates and end-to-end test deployments.
• Deploy and report from the CoE Starter Kit and Copilot Studio Starter Kit.
• Apply Microsoft 365 and Azure governance fundamentals where they touch AI: external sharing, retention, Azure Policy, and RBAC.

Client Engagement & Communication

• Act as a trusted advisor to client administrators, platform owners, and security teams; explain governance trade-offs clearly.
• Co-lead governance workshops, discovery sessions, and knowledge transfer; deliver instructor-led training on Copilot Studio governance when needed.
• Contribute to deliverables: governance frameworks, intake and lifecycle playbooks, runbooks, validation summaries, and decision logs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of enterprise Microsoft platform experience, with 2+ years hands-on in Copilot, Copilot Studio, Purview, or Power Platform governance or administration.
• Hands-on Copilot Studio experience, including agent publishing, security settings, knowledge sources, connectors, and how agents interact with Microsoft 365.
• Hands-on Microsoft Purview experience: sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, and audit, ideally applied to Copilot or agent scenarios.
• Working Power Platform governance experience: environment strategy, DLP, managed environments, and PPAC administration.
• Solid understanding of Entra ID, least privilege, conditional access, and RBAC as they apply to AI and data controls.
• Evidence of implementing governance in production tenants, with some exposure to designing or recommending the approach.
• Clear, confident client communication and strong emotional intelligence; you can hold your own with technical leads and brief executives with support.
• Able to work remotely within the United States or Canada with reliable overlap for Eastern and Central business hours.

Governance-fluent bar: …