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You will serve as the primary technical authority transforming legacy data estates and operational bottlenecks into production-grade data pipelines, OpenAI-powered agentic workflows, and enterprise AI solutions.\n\nThe role is heavily customer-facing: you will work alongside client business units and engineering teams to rapidly build modern data platforms and deploy custom OpenAI architectures (leveraging o-series reasoning models, Assistants API, and Azure OpenAI Service). This is a high-ownership, hands-on role where you will leverage Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and AI-assisted workflows to drive immediate enterprise value directly where the customer operates.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nCustomer Embedding & OpenAI Delivery: Deploy directly into customer environments to audit domain logic and data pipelines. 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