Senior AI Engineer: Lead AI SWAT & Enterprise Agents

Novo Nordisk; Ballerup Kommune; On-site; DKK 743,000 - 1,092,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk seeks a Lead AI Engineer to act as the senior technical authority in Rapid Enablement's SWAT engagements. You will architect and build the technical solution to prove or disprove value within a fixed timebox, and lead the development of reusable enterprise agents.

You will set technical direction, work with AI Process designers, and mentor engineers to ensure quality under time pressure while collaborating with senior business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience turning AI ideas into working solutions across code-first and low-code platforms.
• Hands-on with LLMs, agents, evaluation frameworks, vector databases and semantic search.
• Knowledge of modern AI standards (MCP, A2A, Agent Skills) and agentic IDE tooling (VS Code, Claude Code, Codex).
• Experience setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
• Able to translate ambiguous problems into scoped, testable technical approaches under time pressure.
• Fluency with CI/CD and Git.
• MSc/PhD in engineering, CS, data science or equivalent depth.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior hands-on engineer in SWAT engagements, architecting and building the solution needed to prove or disprove an opportunity’s value and feasibility within a fixed timebox.
• Set technical direction and standards across engagements, including architecture choices, AI patterns and evaluation approaches that hold up under real business stakeholder scrutiny.
• Work closely with the team’s AI Process designers to turn a redesigned business process into a working, testable technical solution.
• Lead the solutioning and technical implementation of reusable enterprise agents that Rapid Enablement keeps standing operational ownership of.
• Mentor and pair with less senior engineers, so technical quality holds even when engagements run at pace.

Skills

AI engineering

LLMs & agents

Evaluation frameworks

Vector databases

Semantic search

AI standards

Agent IDE tooling

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

CI/CD

Git

Education

MSc/PhD in engineering/CS/data science (or equivalent)

Graduate degree or equivalent depth

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

ChatGPT

Claude

Copilot Studio

Low-code/no-code platforms

Job description

Novo Nordisk seeks a Lead AI Engineer to act as the senior technical authority in Rapid Enablement's SWAT engagements. You will architect and build the technical solution to prove or disprove value within a fixed timebox, and lead the development of reusable enterprise agents.

You will set technical direction, work with AI Process designers, and mentor engineers to ensure quality under time pressure while collaborating with senior business stakeholders.