AI-Driven IT Solutions Manager: Backend & Integrations

Crenlo; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Crenlo seeks an IT Solutions Manager who blends business analysis with hands-on backend development to deliver practical software, automation, and agentic AI solutions across plant teams and functional leaders.

The role guides work from business discovery to backend delivery, defining requirements, designing solutions, building integrations, and deploying secure, scalable products with a strong focus on Anthropic Claude and MCP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software development or IT solution delivery.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems and translating business needs into measurable software solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, Git, and code repositories.
• Proven experience building and deploying production AI or large language model applications.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with business leaders and plant teams, learn their processes, and identify problems worth solving.
• Lead discovery, process mapping, and requirements gathering; translate business needs into clear use cases, workflows, technical designs, and measurable outcomes.
• Recommend the right approach—including agentic AI, automation, custom software, integration, or a packaged solution—based on value, risk, and supportability.
• Design, build, test, and deploy backend applications, APIs, integrations, and agentic workflows that deliver the agreed business outcome.
• Build extensively with Anthropic Claude and MCP, including agents, tools, connectors, scheduled jobs, and secure access to enterprise data.
• Integrate solutions with Oracle EBS, Salesforce, Propel PLM, Microsoft 365, Power BI, and related platforms.
• Own solutions from prototype through production and ongoing support, including testing, deployment, documentation, adoption, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Manage and maintain the technologies supporting these solutions, including code repositories, version control, environment configuration, controlled configuration changes, and production reliability.
• Manage technology vendors and development partners in this space, including evaluation, scope, coordination, performance, cost, and delivery, while communicating progress, tradeoffs, risks, and results in business terms.

Skills

Backend development

AI/ML deployment

Requirements gathering

Cloud CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Git

Job description

Crenlo seeks an IT Solutions Manager who blends business analysis with hands-on backend development to deliver practical software, automation, and agentic AI solutions across plant teams and functional leaders.

The role guides work from business discovery to backend delivery, defining requirements, designing solutions, building integrations, and deploying secure, scalable products with a strong focus on Anthropic Claude and MCP.