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Our governed Modern Data Platform (MDP) integrates ERP and operational data, with plans to mirror it into Microsoft Fabric to support AI and business solutions.\nWe’re hiring a Technical Program Manager to build and lead a team of AI engineers and agent developers, own RK’s technical AI roadmap, and remain hands-on in prototyping, solution design, and quality oversight.\nPartnering with Strategic AI managers, business leaders, the Data team, and external partners, you’ll identify opportunities, translate business needs into AI solutions, ensure agents use governed MDP data, and transition early prototypes into production-ready solutions.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nBuild and Lead the Technical AI Team\nHire, onboard and develop a team of experienced AI engineers and agent builders. \nDefine roles, write job descriptions, run interview loops and set a high hiring bar. \nRun the team day to day: set priorities and goals, assign work, run code and design reviews, manage performance and grow people's careers. \nDefine the team's operating model: how work moves from idea to prototype to production to support, and how prototypes hand off from partners or builders to engineers without rework. \nManage external AI development partners. Set acceptance criteria, review deliverables and reject or require rework of anything that doesn't meet standards. \n Own the Technical AI Roadmap\nBuild and maintain RK's roadmap for technical AI work, sequenced by business value, data readiness and dependencies, in partnership with the Director and Strategic AI managers. \nLead technical delivery of AI data chat (Track 2), from the first pilot data agent on a well-modeled subject area to Teams-based adoption at scale. Support agent-enabled workflows in sandboxes and business solutions (Tracks 1 and 3). Choose the right tool for each case: Copilot Studio, Fabric data agents, Microsoft Foundry (prompt-based or custom-coded agents), Power Platform or traditional automation. Know when AI is not the answer. \nTrack the Microsoft AI and Fabric ecosystem (such as Foundry Agent Service, Fabric IQ and Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility) and bring forward the capabilities that matter to RK. \nPartner with the Business and Strategic AI\nWork with Strategic AI managers and business stakeholders to find high-value agent opportunities, often with users who don't yet know what agents can do.\nLead process mapping and workflow discovery. Simplify or remove steps before adding AI, and decide which parts of a workflow an agent handles and which stay with people. \nTurn business needs into clear requirements, success measures, baselines and acceptance criteria. Commit to business outcomes and report on them.\nCommunicate honestly with sponsors and leadership about progress, risks and agents that aren't performing as expected. \nBuild Enterprise-Grade Agents\nDesign and oversee agents in Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, including tools and functions, enterprise grounding, integrations and Microsoft 365 / Teams deployment. \nDesign enterprise RAG solutions over documents such as construction specifications and drawings, covering authoritative sources, chunking, metadata, embeddings, hybrid and vector search, permissions and traceability. \nStay hands-on: build prototypes, lightweight coded agents, integrations and evaluation harnesses in Python, C# or SQL. Use AI coding assistants with discipline and validate everything they produce. \nUse MDP and Fabric as the AI Data Foundation\nPartner with the Data Architect and Data team so agents are grounded in governed MDP data mirrored into OneLake. No parallel pipelines from source systems. \nMake sure agents use conformed cross-source objects so they don't double-count across ERPs. Raise data-model gaps, such as business states that aren't yet modeled, through the standard MDP intake process. \nHelp define and enforce row-level security and identity pass-through before any agent goes live, so an agent never shows a user data they aren't allowed to see. \nKnow the difference between analytical and operational questions, and design around data latency. \nQuality, Evaluation and Responsible AI\nSet the team's definition of production-ready: evaluation datasets, acceptance thresholds and measures for groundedness, accuracy, task adherence, safety and user experience.\nDesign human oversight for agents that act. Decide when an agent should assist, recommend, execute or orchestrate, with rule-based and confidence-based escalation and feedback loops from human corrections. \nBuild security and Responsible AI into discovery from the start, covering least-privilege access, prompt-injection defense, safe actions, audit trails and traceability. \nMonitor production agents and act on the signals, including rolling back an agent or declining a use case when the risk outweighs the value. \nAccountability\nMaintain professionalism, integrity, confidentiality, and discretion.\nEffectively manage assigned projects and deadlines.\nFollow all company policies and procedures.\nSupport a positive workplace culture and team environment.\nDemonstrate strong organizational skills and attention to detail.\nComply with all safety requirements and actively contribute to a safe work environment.\nPosition is primarily office-based.\nMinimum Physical Requirements\nRegularly stand, sit, walk, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate cameras, computers, and other equipment.\nFrequently lift and carry equipment up to 30 pounds.\nOccasionally reach, stoop, kneel, climb stairs, or navigate active construction sites.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent experience. \n8+ years in software, data or AI engineering, including 3+ years building and deploying AI, ML or LLM-based solutions in an enterprise. \n3+ years leading technical teams, including hiring, performance management and day-to-day delivery. People management experience is strongly preferred. \nA track record of owning AI agents or LLM applications end to end, from business problem to production, adoption and measured value. \nHands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI, plus Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility. \nDeep understanding of enterprise RAG and grounding, including retrieval evaluation, permissions-aware search and diagnosing wrong or poorly cited answers. \nExperience designing agent evaluations, acceptance thresholds and production monitoring. \nHands-on coding in Python and/or C#, plus strong SQL. Disciplined use of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot. \nWorking knowledge of AI security and governance: identity, least privilege, prompt injection, auditability and human-in-the-loop design. \nStrong business partnership skills, including process mapping, requirements and the ability to explain AI trade-offs to executives and end users. \nPreferred\nMicrosoft Fabric experience: OneLake, mirroring, Fabric data agents, semantic models and row-level security. \nFamiliarity with dimensional data models (Kimball) and enterprise data warehouses, enough to work closely with a data architecture team. \nFoundry Agent Service, Model Context Protocol (MCP), multi-agent orchestration and Foundry Toolkit for VS Code. \nPower Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse. \nConstruction, engineering or specialty-contracting experience, including document-heavy workflows such as specifications, drawings, submittals and materials takeoffs. \nExperience managing external AI or development partners. \nMicrosoft certifications such as Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600). \nRK Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. 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