AI Lead Engineer

Responsibilities / Experience:

• Lead service rationalization and decomposition across complex enterprise ecosystems
• Design and build API-first event-driven architectures
• Contribute hands-on to domain services integrations and POCs
• Enable service reuse through catalogs standards and governance
• Drive incremental legacy modernization (strangler pattern)
• Partner across global teams to influence a platform-first mindset
• Build systems ready for AI agents automation workflows and future integrations

1. Strong Engineering & Architecture Execution (10 years)

• Deep hands-on experience building and delivering production-grade systems in enterprise environments
• Expertise in microservices APIs (REST/GraphQL) event-driven architecture (Kafka) and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Proven ability to move between architecture design hands-on coding and leading engineering teams with a pragmatic delivery-focused mindset

2. Service Decomposition & Enterprise Modernization

• Strong experience with domain-driven design (DDD) service decomposition and distributed system design
• Hands-on track record breaking down monoliths/fragmented systems into reusable service layers
• Experience leading modernization efforts using incremental approaches (e.g. strangler pattern) with a focus on reuse scalability and clean service boundaries

3. MCP Servers & Gen AI / Agent-Based Systems

• Proven experience building MCP server-based solutions and Gen AI agents from concept through production
• Strong understanding of designing systems for an agentic AI-driven ecosystem
• Ability to integrate AI into service architectures and make platforms agent-ready for future automation and intelligence

4. Experience designing observability strategies: distributed tracing structured logging metrics dashboards

5. Deep understanding of zero-trust architecture API security and identity federation

6. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline design GitOps workflows and release engineering

7. Ability to make and communicate well-reasoned architectural trade-offs.

Preferred Skills:

• Expertise with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development tools
• Experience building service catalogs / internal developer platforms
• Background in highly distributed multi-region enterprise environments
• Exposure to AI-driven automation workflows at scale