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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 provide hands-on engineering, integration, adoption, analytics, operations, and lifecycle management for Vizient’s enterprise AI tooling ecosystem. You will help enable secure, scalable, reliable, and measurable use of platforms supporting AI Engineering, AI Quality Engineering, LLMOps/AIOps, Product, Engineering, Data, Architecture, Security, Governance, and Delivery teams.\nThe Senior AI Tooling Engineer will initially support platforms such as Jellyfish and Amplitude while applying reusable engineering practices across platform implementation, source-to-platform data flows, application onboarding, analytics, measurement, and lifecycle operations. This role extends beyond dashboard development or administration of a single product and will expand to additional AI tooling as organizational priorities evolve.\nThe engineer will own technical work from requirements intake and architecture assessment through implementation, integration, instrumentation, validation, production readiness, analytics, adoption, operational support, optimization, and lifecycle change.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the implementation, configuration, administration, and production readiness of assigned enterprise AI tooling platforms.\nDesign, implement, and support integrations between enterprise source systems and AI tooling platforms.\nBuild and maintain APIs, SDK integrations, connectors, pipelines, event streams, automation, and synchronization workflows.\nPartner with application and product teams to onboard internal and customer-facing applications.\nAssess application architecture and define integration, instrumentation, identity, schema, event, and data requirements.\nDevelop and maintain event-tracking plans, taxonomies, naming conventions, properties, and instrumentation specifications.\nValidate integrations, instrumentation, data completeness, accuracy, timeliness, lineage, sequencing, identity resolution, and schema consistency.\nTroubleshoot complex platform, authentication, integration, performance, data-flow, and data-quality issues; perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.\nTranslate business, product, engineering, and AI-tooling objectives into measurable events, metrics, dashboards, analytics, and decision-support views.\nDevelop analytics related to engineering productivity, delivery flow, quality, investment allocation, application usage, feature adoption, engagement, retention, conversion, and user journeys.\nMonitor platform usage, adoption, license utilization, data volume, cost, performance, operational health, and lifecycle risks.\nPartner with Product, Engineering, Data, Architecture, Security, Governance, Privacy, Procurement, and business teams to support adoption, compliance, documentation, enablement, and continuous improvement.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nStrong experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, product analytics, or a closely related technical discipline.\nHands-on experience implementing, integrating, configuring, or operating enterprise SaaS, engineering, analytics, developer-productivity, or AI tooling platforms.\nExperience with APIs, SDKs, connectors, event streams, data pipelines, integrations, and application instrumentation.\nStrong proficiency with SQL and the ability to validate platform and analytics data against source systems.\nExperience troubleshooting complex platform and data-flow issues using structured root cause analysis and corrective action.\nExperience developing metrics, dashboards, and analytical views that support product, engineering, operational, or business decisions.\nAbility to assess application architecture and translate stakeholder needs into technical integration, instrumentation, data, and analytics requirements.\nExperience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, Architecture, Security, Governance, and business teams in a large-enterprise environment.\nStrong documentation, communication, stakeholder-management, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to independently manage work from requirements intake through implementation, validation, documentation, handoff, and ongoing support.\nAbility to identify adoption barriers, workflow friction, data-quality issues, lifecycle risks, cost inefficiencies, and optimization opportunities.\nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience with Jellyfish, Amplitude, or comparable engineering intelligence and product analytics platforms.\nAdvanced experience with product analytics, experimentation, session replay, customer-data platforms, feature-management tools, or developer-productivity platforms.\nExperience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, or another enterprise programming language.\nExperience with Azure and enterprise identity, authentication, and access-management patterns.\nExperience with Databricks, Power BI, or comparable data and analytics technologies.\nExperience supporting AI applications, conversational products, internal developer tools, copilots, or enterprise AI platforms.\nFamiliarity with LLM applications, prompt workflows, AI observability, model telemetry, latency, reliability, token consumption, and AI cost measurement.\nExperience in healthcare, regulated industries, or complex large-enterprise environments.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.\nVizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! 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