AI Development Lead
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Job Summary
As an Arcadian you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated to improving quality of life.
Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can continue to solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
The AI Developer Lead is responsible for leading the design development and implementation of AI-powered solutions that enhance business operations employee experiences and service delivery across Arcadis. This is a technical leadership role that combines hands-on development with solution design governance mentoring and delivery oversight.
The role will focus on building enterprise-grade AI agents copilots automations and integrations using technologies such as Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Copilot Studio Model Context Protocol (MCP) custom connectors Power Platform and Microsoft Azure services. The AI Developer Lead will work closely with business stakeholders architects platform teams and developers to deliver secure scalable and responsible AI solutions that generate measurable business value.
Role accountabilities:
- Lead the design and development of AI-powered solutions agents copilots and automation services that support business and operational outcomes.
- Design build test and deploy solutions using Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Copilot Studio Power Platform and supporting Azure services.
- Develop and maintain integrations with enterprise applications using APIs custom connectors MCP servers/tools and event-driven architectures.
- Create reusable AI components templates and development standards that accelerate delivery across teams.
- Partner with solution architects and platform teams to ensure AI solutions align with enterprise standards and technology roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for AI development teams and project delivery.
- Establish engineering standards coding practices testing approaches and deployment patterns for AI solutions.
- Conduct design reviews and provide technical oversight to ensure solution quality scalability maintainability and security.
- Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise security privacy legal and compliance requirements.
- Support implementation of responsible AI controls including transparency content safety model governance and risk mitigation practices.
Collaborate with cybersecurity data governance and platform teams to ensure secure data access and integration patterns.
Contribute to a collaborative high-performing engineering culture focused on innovation continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 58 years of experience in software development automation integration or solution engineering roles.
- 2 years of hands-on experience developing AI machine learning generative AI or intelligent automation solutions.
- Experience building solutions using Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Copilot Studio Microsoft Power Platform or comparable AI platforms.
- Strong experience developing integrations using REST APIs custom connectors web services and enterprise application interfaces.
- Experience implementing AI orchestration patterns prompt engineering techniques and agent-based solutions.
- Understanding of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) vector databases embeddings document ingestion and knowledge grounding approaches.
- Experience designing and supporting MCP-based tooling AI extensions plugins or related integration frameworks.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python C# JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with Azure services such as Functions Logic Apps API Management Azure Storage Cosmos DB Key Vault Container Apps or AKS is nice to have.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native application development is nice to have.
Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You do meaningful work and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more
