AI Engineering Lead – Enterprise CoPilot & Agentic AI

Coforge; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge in United States, New York, Buffalo is seeking an AI Engineering Lead with deep experience in enterprise AI tooling, Microsoft 365 CoPilot Chat and CoPilot Studio, and agentic AI frameworks. You will guide architecture, governance, and delivery of multi‑tier applications across teams.

The role requires 10+ years of software engineering, leadership experience, and hands‑on work with CI/CD (GitLab), Jira, and test tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including production ownership of complex, multi‑tier applications.
• 3+ years in a Lead Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
• Proven hands‑on experience with Microsoft 365 CoPilot Chat and CoPilot Studio, including agent design, deployment, and governance.
• Demonstrated experience with the Duo Agentic Platform or comparable agentic AI frameworks (e.g., AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, or Microsoft Semantic Kernel).
• Ability to read, analyze, and reverse‑engineer source code in at least one of: COBOL/JCL/CICS, Java, or equivalent enterprise language.
• Hands‑on experience producing formal software artifacts: BRDs, sequence diagrams, architecture documentation, and requirements‑to‑test traceability matrices.
• Working knowledge of GitLab CI/CD pipeline configuration, Jira project management, and Zephyr or equivalent test management tooling.
• Strong understanding of software testing disciplines: unit, integration, regression, and test automation frameworks.

Skills

AI tooling expertise

Microsoft 365 CoPilot Chat

CoPilot Studio

Duo Agentic Platform

AutoGen

CrewAI

LangGraph

Microsoft Semantic Kernel

Reverse‑engineering legacy code

BRDs and architecture docs

CI/CD (GitLab)

Jira

Zephyr

Software testing disciplines

Guardrails and responsible AI

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Jira

Zephyr

Job description

Coforge in United States, New York, Buffalo is seeking an AI Engineering Lead with deep experience in enterprise AI tooling, Microsoft 365 CoPilot Chat and CoPilot Studio, and agentic AI frameworks. You will guide architecture, governance, and delivery of multi‑tier applications across teams.

The role requires 10+ years of software engineering, leadership experience, and hands‑on work with CI/CD (GitLab), Jira, and test tools.