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We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.\nSummary:\nIn this role, you will lead the technical design, development, deployment, and operation of enterprise-grade AI solutions for complex, knowledge-intensive workflows. You will combine generative AI, agentic workflows, retrieval, structured and unstructured data, deterministic processing, and human expertise to create accurate, secure, explainable, and reliable production applications. You will remain hands-on with architecture and implementation while leading engineers, establishing evaluation and observability practices, and partnering with domain experts, product leaders, architects, data teams, and platform teams to translate ambiguous business challenges into scalable technical solutions.\nResponsibilities:\nLead the architecture, development, deployment, and operation of enterprise-grade AI and machine learning solutions.\nDesign solutions that combine large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval, structured data, APIs, and deterministic processing.\nTranslate complex expert workflows into modular, testable, and maintainable software components.\nDetermine where AI inference, deterministic logic, retrieval, rules, or traditional data processing will produce the most reliable outcome.\nEstablish evaluation strategies using representative test sets, expert-reviewed outcomes, regression testing, quality measurements, and stage-level analysis.\nDesign observability capabilities that capture intermediate outputs, decision traces, evaluation results, performance measures, and failure modes.\nLead investigations into grounding failures, hallucinations, retrieval quality, prompt behavior, model selection, orchestration, latency, accuracy, and cost.\nEvaluate architectural tradeoffs across performance, maintainability, extensibility, security, reliability, supportability, and operating cost.\nDevelop APIs, services, prototypes, and production components while contributing to design reviews, code reviews, and complex technical problem-solving.\nImplement security, privacy, auditability, monitoring, and production-readiness practices for AI-enabled applications.\nPartner with domain experts, product leaders, architects, data teams, and platform teams to convert specialized knowledge into scalable system behavior.\nDevelop reusable AI capabilities, engineering patterns, evaluation frameworks, and platform components that support multiple solutions.\nMentor engineers and strengthen team practices across AI engineering, software design, testing, observability, and production operations.\nDrive continuous improvement by incorporating production metrics, evaluation results, expert feedback, and real-world user outcomes.\nQualifications:\nRelevant degree preferred.\n7 or more years of relevant experience required.\nExperience providing technical leadership for complex, production-grade software or AI systems required.\nDemonstrated experience personally designing, building, deploying, and operating generative AI or machine learning applications in enterprise production environments required.\nStrong experience with Python and modern API and service development, including FastAPI or comparable frameworks required.\nExperience with large language models, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool or function calling, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows required.\nExperience establishing evaluation strategies for nondeterministic AI systems, including test datasets, regression evaluation, grounding, quality measurement, and failure analysis required.\nStrong understanding of the appropriate boundaries between probabilistic AI behavior and deterministic software, rules, retrieval, and data processing required.\nExperience with cloud-native architecture, asynchronous processing, APIs, events or queues, persistence, monitoring, and production observability required.\nExperience addressing enterprise security, privacy, reliability, auditability, supportability, performance, and cost requirements required.\nExperience with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, or comparable cloud AI and semantic-retrieval technologies preferred.\nExperience with Databricks, vector databases, embeddings, reranking, semantic search, or enterprise knowledge-retrieval platforms preferred.\nExperience developing AI solutions involving sensitive, regulated, or high-consequence data and decisions preferred.\nStrong technical leadership, mentoring, communication, problem-solving, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. 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