AI Platform Technical Program Lead Job ID: 406569

Aifalabs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aifalabs is seeking a senior delivery leader to guide the enterprise AI platform that integrates, governs, and monitors AI agents across teams. You will own the platform roadmap, coordinate Azure-based components, and ensure secure, scalable production readiness.

You will translate business needs into technical plans, review designs, and drive standards for CI/CD, testing, and telemetry while engaging stakeholders and vendors.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical program management, solution architecture, platform delivery, or enterprise integration.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure architecture and services: identity, hosting, messaging, storage, databases, monitoring, networking.
• Experience delivering generative AI or AI-agent solutions using Azure AI services.
• Understanding of APIs, Git, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, release management, telemetry, and production support.
• Experience coordinating engineering teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Strong technical judgment, documentation, communication, and risk-management skills.
• Experience in a regulated enterprise environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform delivery roadmap, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate engineering, DevOps, security, compliance, business, and vendor teams.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Guide onboarding and integration of AI agents onto the platform.
• Review solution designs and challenge architectural or operational risks.
• Establish standards for source control, CI/CD, testing, releases, monitoring, and support.
• Define production-readiness criteria, including documentation, security, testing, ownership, and rollback.
• Maintain clear decisions, implementation guidance, risks, and operational runbooks.
• Communicate technical issues and recommendations to leadership and delivery teams.

Skills

Technical program management

Solution architecture

Platform delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Azure

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

APIs

Telemetry

Tools

Azure services

Containers/Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Telemetry

Job description

Role Summary

Lead the delivery of an enterprise platform that integrates, governs, and monitors AI agents developed by multiple teams. This role combines technical program management, solution architecture, and cross-functional delivery leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform delivery roadmap, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate engineering, DevOps, security, compliance, business, and vendor teams.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Guide the onboarding and integration of AI agents onto the platform.
• Review solution designs and challenge architectural or operational risks.
• Establish standards for source control, CI/CD, testing, releases, monitoring, and support.
• Define production-readiness criteria, including documentation, security, testing, ownership, and rollback.
• Maintain clear decisions, implementation guidance, risks, and operational runbooks.
• Communicate technical issues and recommendations to leadership and delivery teams.

Required Background

• 8+ years in technical program management, solution architecture, platform delivery, or enterprise integration.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure architecture and services, including identity and access, application hosting, messaging, storage, databases, monitoring, and networking.
• Experience delivering generative AI or AI-agent solutions using Azure AI services.
• Understanding of APIs, Git, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, release management, telemetry, and production support.
• Experience coordinating engineering teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Strong technical judgment, documentation, communication, and risk-management skills.
• Experience in a regulated enterprise environment is preferred.

Ideal Candidate

A delivery leader with enough technical depth to challenge engineering decisions, connect multiple teams, and move AI solutions from proof of concept into secure and supportable production use. Experience with SAP S/4HANA delivery and integration, particularly SAP BTP Integration Suite, APIs, RICEFW artifacts, Clean Core principles, and supply-chain processes, is strongly preferred.