AI Platform Lead Engineer (Hybrid) — AWS & Databricks

Code17tek; Las Vegas (NV); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Code17tek seeks an hands-on AI Platform Engineering Lead to architect and build a new enterprise AI platform for a healthcare client. The role emphasizes secure data integrations, reusable workflows, and cloud-first design on AWS.

You will partner with the program owner and lead AI engineer to set engineering standards, define a delivery roadmap, and mentor engineers across AI, backend, and frontend domains. Healthcare experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Hands-on leadership of AI platform engineering teams.
• Experience designing enterprise AI platforms and services.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Databricks, and secure integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core platform on AWS, including services, IAM, networking, and event-driven processing.
• Develop secure, scalable integrations with enterprise systems, starting with Databricks.
• Build agent workflows, tool integrations, orchestration patterns, and retrieval capabilities.
• Define how agents access tools/data, maintain workflow state, handle failures, and route actions for human approval.
• Establish reusable components/interfaces for models, tools, and enterprise integrations.
• Implement access controls, audit logging, monitoring, and data protection for healthcare data.
• Define evaluation practices for agent behavior, retrieval quality, latency, and cost.
• Define development standards, CI/CD pipelines, and release management practices.
• Lead technical design discussions, review code, and mentor engineers across AI/backend/frontend.
• Collaborate with product, AI, security, and data teams to shape architecture and delivery roadmap.
• Remain actively involved in coding, troubleshooting, deployment, and production readiness

Skills

AI platform

AWS

Databricks

Leadership

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Code17tek seeks an hands-on AI Platform Engineering Lead to architect and build a new enterprise AI platform for a healthcare client. The role emphasizes secure data integrations, reusable workflows, and cloud-first design on AWS.

You will partner with the program owner and lead AI engineer to set engineering standards, define a delivery roadmap, and mentor engineers across AI, backend, and frontend domains. Healthcare experience is preferred.