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The ideal candidate combines a strong software engineering and architecture background with technical project and delivery management experience.\nIn this role, you’ll collaborate across engineering, product, data, AI, infrastructure, and business teams to translate business objectives into executable technical plans and successful outcomes. You’ll bring the technical depth to facilitate technical decision-making, manage delivery risks, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nProjects may span enterprise software, data and AI solutions, cloud infrastructure, APIs, search and knowledge systems, and enterprise integrations. You’ll collaborate with technology teams across multiple time zones, including colleagues in the United States and India.\nAs a premier consulting and technology firm, alliant is focused on providing solutions to help businesses transform and thrive, while serving as their ongoing growth partner.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead multiple software engineering and technology projects from initiation through delivery, translating business and product objectives into clear project plans, roadmaps, milestones, schedules, resource needs, and measurable outcomes.\nCoordinate cross-functional technical teams while monitoring scope, progress, dependencies, risks, blockers, and critical-path activities.\nFacilitate timely decisions when business requirements, technical design, resources, schedules, or delivery constraints intersect.\nMaintain accurate project plans, decisions, and supporting documentation throughout the software development lifecycle.\nCoordinate cross-functional resources across engineering, architecture, data, AI, infrastructure, security, quality assurance, DevOps, and product teams.\nApply Agile practices to plan and facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other delivery activities.\nPartner with product and engineering teams to translate functional and technical requirements into clearly defined, appropriately sized development work.\nMonitor sprint commitments, capacity, velocity, dependencies, blockers, and delivery trends to support realistic release plans.\nLead project and release estimation across development, architecture, data, AI, infrastructure, integration, testing, security, and deployment activities.\nDocument assumptions and refine estimates, resource plans, dependencies, sequencing, milestones, and critical paths as technical requirements evolve.\nUse prior software engineering and architecture experience to facilitate technical design activities and informed architectural decisions.\nReview proposed solutions for implementation challenges, dependencies, security, scalability, performance, availability, reliability, and maintainability.\nPartner with engineering leaders to define technical designs, resolve architectural issues, and remove technical blockers before and during implementation.\nCreate and maintain architecture and technical design diagrams that clearly communicate system components and dependencies.\nMaintain project risk registers and proactively identify technical, operational, resource, schedule, security, vendor, integration, and dependency risks.\nDevelop mitigation and contingency plans, escalate material concerns early, and coordinate alternative delivery approaches when constraints threaten project outcomes.\nLead projects involving generative AI, AI agents, orchestration, machine learning, and enterprise AI applications across the software development lifecycle.\nPartner with AI engineering teams on solution architecture, prompt and context design, retrieval, model and tool selection, orchestration, evaluation, and tuning.\nCoordinate decisions involving data sources, structures, formats, search technologies, and knowledge systems that support AI-enabled applications.\nIdentify and manage AI-specific risks, including response accuracy, retrieval quality, evaluation methods, data security, latency, cost, and model dependencies.\nEstablish appropriate testing and evaluation approaches for AI-enabled functionality in partnership with engineering teams.\nCoordinate projects involving large-scale data systems, including data ingestion, transformation, storage, indexing, querying, analytics, and integration.\nPartner with data engineering teams to evaluate data technologies, pipelines, models, performance requirements, scalability, availability, and system dependencies.\nExperience with Microsoft Azure and enterprise cloud architectures, including cloud application hosting, identity management, AI services, search, data platforms, relational or graph databases, and containerized environments.\nCoordinate cloud infrastructure and security requirements throughout technical design and project delivery.\nPartner with engineering and security teams to identify and address requirements, risks, dependencies, and remediation activities involving identity and access management, authentication, authorization, data protection, application security, and secure cloud architecture.\nCollaborate effectively with software engineering and technology teams across the United States and India, establishing communication practices that support work across time zones.\nFacilitate meetings that produce documented decisions, clear ownership, and actionable next steps.\nProvide concise project updates that communicate progress, accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.\nTranslate complex technical concepts into clear, audience-appropriate communications, roadmaps, and delivery presentations.\nMaintain current project requirements, plans, decisions, and status information in the organization’s documentation environment.\nClearly communicate priorities, dependencies, decisions, blockers, and schedule changes, and facilitate meetings that result in documented decisions and actionable next steps.\nProvide concise project updates that communicate progress, accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.\nTranslate complex technical concepts into clear, audience-appropriate communications, roadmaps, and delivery presentations.\nMaintain current project requirements, plans, decisions, and status information in the organization’s documentation environment.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience delivering generative AI solutions, including AI agents and orchestration, prompt engineering, data and retrieval strategies, response evaluation, and tuning.\nExperience with enterprise data platforms and architectures, including relational, graph, search, semantic, or large-scale data environments.\nHands-on experience with Microsoft Azure technologies such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Fabric, AKS, App Service, Functions, or Microsoft Entra ID.\nExperience leading integrations between enterprise SaaS platforms, such as Salesforce, and custom software, APIs, data platforms, identity systems, or cloud services.\nExperience collaborating with product and design teams on UI/UX requirements, workflows, design specifications, and design-to-development handoffs.\nExperience delivering enterprise-scale software products in environments with multiple concurrent technology initiatives.\nRequired Technical Background\nStrong software development and architecture background, with experience across several technical areas such as programming languages and frameworks, APIs and distributed systems, relational and graph databases, cloud and application architecture, scalability and security, AI/ML and generative AI, and search or information retrieval technologies.\nExperience with or strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and enterprise cloud architectures, including application hosting, identity management, AI and search services, data platforms, databases, and containerized environments.\nExperience using software development, project management, collaboration, and documentation tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or comparable platforms.\nAbility to quickly learn and adapt to tools that support engineering, project delivery, and technical documentation.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline required. \nSignificant professional experience progressing from software engineering and architecture into technical project, program, or delivery leadership.\nDemonstrated experience leading multiple complex software development projects from planning through delivery.\nExperience managing project plans, schedules, estimates, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and contingency plans.\nExperience applying Agile software development methodologies in technical delivery environments.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical information for engineering, product, business, and executive audiences.\nExperience collaborating with geographically distributed technology teams.\nAbility to interpret and communicate software architecture, technical designs, and system diagrams.\nAbility to create clear project roadmaps, executive presentations, and status reports.\nHigh sense of urgency with the ability to meet deadlines and changing priorities. \nReceptiveness to performance feedback within a team environment is essential. \nAbility to work onsite in Houston, TX, five days per week.\nHigh sense of urgency with the 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