Senior AI Engineer – Enterprise Automation & AI Ops

MCKESSON; Cork; On-site; EUR 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson in Ireland is seeking a Senior AI Engineer Sr. Specialist to design, build, and optimize AI-enabled solutions and agentic systems within Financial Shared Services.

You will translate business requirements into scalable architectures, lead technical initiatives, and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams. This role offers meaningful impact and opportunities to advance the digital workforce and enterprise efficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software/AI engineering, automation or architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, SE, IS, data science, AI, or related field.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying enterprise tech solutions.
• Experience integrating apps, data sources, APIs, and business systems.
• Hands-on with Generative AI platforms, agent frameworks, or LLM orchestration.
• Experience with API development, cloud architecture, data engineering, and production integrations.
• Experience supporting technology-enabled transformation initiatives.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI-enabled apps, automation workflows, and agentic systems for FSS.
• Translate requirements into scalable architectures, designs, and production capabilities.
• Establish reusable patterns and coding standards for agent/automation development.
• Build and deploy AI agents for workflows, routing, anomaly detection, and decision support.
• Develop APIs, data pipelines, and integrations linking agents with enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with technology, data, security, and governance teams on validation and deployment readiness.
• Evaluate new AI/automation tech and recommend improvements for fit and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and analysts.

Skills

AI engineering

Automation development

Solution architecture

LLM orchestration

APIs

Cloud architecture

Data engineering

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Copilot Studio

Job description

McKesson in Ireland is seeking a Senior AI Engineer Sr. Specialist to design, build, and optimize AI-enabled solutions and agentic systems within Financial Shared Services.

You will translate business requirements into scalable architectures, lead technical initiatives, and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams. This role offers meaningful impact and opportunities to advance the digital workforce and enterprise efficiency.