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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. 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You’ll design, configure, and deploy AI agents that streamline workflows, improve compliance, and enhance operational efficiency. The role blends domain expertise, hands-on technical skills, and applied AI development. You will also provide technical leadership across the agent delivery lifecycle, shaping solution design, driving implementation standards, and supporting production readiness in collaboration with platform and sustaining teams.\nAI Agent Design & Development Translate business processes and sourcing workflows into robust, autonomous AI agent logic. Architect business requirements into multi-agent systems, defining agent boundaries, tool contracts, memory strategy, and orchestration flows. Configure and develop AI agents to automate purchasing, vendor management, and approval processes. Apply MCP (Model Context Protocol)-style tool interoperability and integration patterns to standardize agent-to-tool interactions. 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