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You will work collaboratively with business, engineering, architecture, and technology teams to build cloud-native AI solutions leveraging LLMs, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, APIs, microservices, and modern DevOps practices.\nIn this role, you will:\nDrive AI-first engineering strategy and lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise Generative AI solutions.\nDesign scalable, cloud-native architectures leveraging LLMs, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and microservices.\nBuild and deploy GenAI-powered applications using GPT-4/4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and advanced prompt and context engineering techniques.\nLeverage GitHub Copilot, Claude, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery and improve developer productivity.\nDefine and promote engineering standards across CI/CD, DevOps, API integration, and cloud-native application development.\nDesign AI solutions leveraging AWS and Amazon Bedrock and support the development of scalable AI platforms and services.\nCollaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable AI solutions.\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. 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