AI and Data Engineering Manager — Enterprise Platform Lead

eNGINE LLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

eNGINE is seeking a Manager of AI and Data Engineering to lead enterprise AI initiatives and own the technical vision, architecture, and standards. This role drives platform design across Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric, mentoring engineers and shaping enterprise AI strategy.

You will guide AI platform ownership, agent development, and scalable API architectures, while partnering with business and IT stakeholders to deliver impactful AI solutions at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on data and AI engineering, including machine learning, advanced analytics, or intelligent automation
• Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale production AI solutions
• Exceptional communication and influence skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority

Responsibilities

• Establish technical standards, solution architectures for AI initiatives
• Lead technology decisions involving AI platforms, data platforms, cloud infrastructure
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine enterprise applicability
• Create scalable architectural patterns balancing innovation, maintainability, security, and cost
• Serve as the coach for AI engineering across the organization
• Design and evolve AI platform capabilities across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake
• Establish platform strategies for Generative AI, RAG, machine learning, agent frameworks
• Define standards for AI lifecycle management, model deployment, monitoring, and observability
• Build reusable engineering capabilities that accelerate AI delivery
• Establish AI engineering guardrails, governance controls, and operational standards
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI agents and copilots
• Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions leveraging enterprise knowledge assets
• Design intelligent workflows that integrate AI into business processes
• Build scalable API and microservices architectures exposing AI capabilities
• Drive adoption of AI-powered decision support, automation, and augmentation
• Establish standards for prompt engineering, orchestration, evaluation, and AI performance measurement
• Serve as principal architect for highly complex AI and data initiatives
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture governance
• Partner with engineering teams to solve scalability, performance, reliability, and security challenges
• Mentor and manage two or more engineers
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices, standards, code quality, and technical coaching

Skills

Leadership

AI engineering

Data engineering

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Azure AI Foundry

Azure Machine Learning

Azure Functions

Azure API Management

Azure DevOps

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

eNGINE is seeking a Manager of AI and Data Engineering to lead enterprise AI initiatives and own the technical vision, architecture, and standards. This role drives platform design across Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric, mentoring engineers and shaping enterprise AI strategy.

You will guide AI platform ownership, agent development, and scalable API architectures, while partnering with business and IT stakeholders to deliver impactful AI solutions at enterprise scale.