AI-Driven Dev Lead: Architecture & Delivery (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Dev Lead for a remote, contract engagement. You will own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-powered knowledge discovery and reuse solutions.

The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership and collaboration with a Product Owner. You'll drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices and maintaining high standards across services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering and solution architecture in complex environments.
• 1+ year building GenAI apps including RAG, agentic search, workflows, and LLM integrations.
• 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• 2+ years as senior/principal engineer with ownership of design and operations.
• 2+ years leading Agile teams with Product Owners and QA.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture and design, balancing functionality with security, scalability, resilience, usability, performance, cost, and reuse.
• Set technical direction for the backlog and refine stories; support story mapping.
• Define squad priorities and advise Product Owner on product priorities.
• Own service security and raise feasibility questions and risks early.
• Stay current on GenAI and emerging technologies and share insights across teams.
• Lead agentic engineering practices from planning to deployment.
• Oversee PR process with AI-assisted reviews and enforce coding norms.
• Maintain code quality and test coverage; prevent new technical debt.
• Set guardrails for agent-generated code and validate against specs.
• Remove blockers, coach engineers, and ensure timely releases.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and boost squad velocity.
• Foster a safe environment for questions and experimentation.

Skills

GenAI

architectural design

Python

FastAPI

ReactJS

Agile/Scrum

Team leadership

Security

Performance tuning

Elasticsearch

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Documented architectures

Education

BA/BS or MS in CS or equivalent

AWS or Azure cert preferred

Tools

SonarQube

Veracode

Azure OpenAI

Claude

Docker

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Dev Lead for a remote, contract engagement. You will own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-powered knowledge discovery and reuse solutions.

The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership and collaboration with a Product Owner. You'll drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices and maintaining high standards across services.