Agentic Engineering Lead: Architect AI-Driven SDLC

Vantor Inc.; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 135,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption assistance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking an Agentic Engineering Lead in Colorado to transform how Engineering operates through AI, automation, and agentic software development. You will establish the technical direction and build agentic capabilities that empower our Engineering Operating Model and partner with teams to adapt the Agentic SDLC to their architectures.

This role requires deep software engineering and leadership—15+ years for a senior technologist—with hands-on experience building AI agents and

Qualifications

• Experience leading senior engineers, architects, and engineering leaders across an organization.
• Deep software engineering and architecture expertise, including modern SDLC, automation, APIs, developer tooling, and systems integration.
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI agents, agentic systems, or AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle and Engineering Operations.
• Translate engineering standards, playbooks, governance, and systems of record into automated workflows, controls, and agents.
• Implement the Engineering data architecture and systems-of-record model, including the integrations, context, and traceability required to support agentic workflows and trusted engineering data.
• Define scalable patterns for agent architecture, context, human/agent handoffs, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
• Advise engineering teams on adapting and adopting the Agentic SDLC for their specific architectures, workflows, risks, and mission requirements.
• Develop reusable agentic capabilities and patterns that can scale across Engineering.
• Measure the adoption and effectiveness of agentic engineering capabilities and continuously improve them.

Skills

Senior leadership

Software architecture

AI agents

LLM context engineering

System integration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

GitHub

Jira

CI/CD

Documentation platforms

Observability tools

Job description

Vantor is seeking an Agentic Engineering Lead in Colorado to transform how Engineering operates through AI, automation, and agentic software development. You will establish the technical direction and build agentic capabilities that empower our Engineering Operating Model and partner with teams to adapt the Agentic SDLC to their architectures.

This role requires deep software engineering and leadership—15+ years for a senior technologist—with hands-on experience building AI agents and