Senior AI Tech Lead

Role Description

We are seeking an AI Tech Lead to serve as a handson technical leader for Agentic AI solutions across Proof of Concept MVP and Production. This role acts as one of the most senior developers on the team driving implementation quality engineering standards and production readiness for autonomous and humanintheloop agent workflows.

Operating within the ATS CAITI Development Team the AI Tech Lead partners closely with the AI Solutions Architect to ensure alignment with architectural standards patterns and enterprise best practices while owning daytoday technical execution and engineering rigor. The AI Tech Lead is responsible for implementation patterns reviews release readiness and coordination of vendor technical contributions where applicable.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead handson technical execution for Agentic AI capabilities across PoC MVP and Production ensuring delivery and productiongrade quality.
• Translate architecture and product intent into a clear build plan (components sequencing integration approach technical risks) and drive implementation through the team.
• Define and enforce engineering practices: coding standards PR/review quality bar branching strategy and done criteria for agentic workflows (including testability and operational readiness).
• Implement and guide development of key agentic components such as orchestration logic tool/API integrations retrieval patterns guardrails and humanintheloop flows ensuring they are reliable and maintainable.
• Own technical unblock and troubleshooting: resolve complex defects integration issues performance bottlenecks and environment/build pipeline problems.
• Drive release readiness from a technical standpoint: dependency readiness versioning deployment checks rollback considerations and operational handover inputs.
• Ensure vendordelivered technical work is aligned to standards through review integration oversight and quality controls.
• Collaborate with QA/Validation to ensure the solution is testable and traceable with appropriate evidence generation through the SDLC (unit/integration/system testing hooks logs artifacts).
• Partner with the Solutions Architect to ensure adherence to enterprise patterns security/privacy expectations and architectural constraints escalating gaps early and proposing practical implementation options.
• Postrelease drive reliability and performance tuning manage technical debt and improve observability to support ongoing stability of agentic behaviors in production.

Key Qualifications

Experience

• 8 years in software engineering roles with demonstrable handson leadership as a senior developer tech lead or lead engineer delivering complex systems.
• Proven experience leading technical execution across the SDLC including integration testing strategy support and production release readiness.
• Experience delivering AIenabled or dataintensive products in regulated or enterprise contexts is strongly preferred.

Agentic & Technical Background

Bachelors degree in a STEM field (Computer Science Engineering Data Science Information Systems Mathematics or related discipline) or equivalent practical experience spanning product management software delivery and AI/data systems.

• Strong engineering fundamentals in software design APIs/integration data flows and distributed systems considerations.
• Working knowledge of architecture principles (security scalability reliability maintainability) and the ability to collaborate effectively with architecture teams to align implementation with standards and best practices.
• Strong CI/CD and engineering hygiene: automated testing code review discipline environment readiness and operational awareness.

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