AI Solutions Lead: From PoC to Production Excellence

Mesa Associates, Inc.; Madison (AL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mesa Associates, Inc. is seeking an AI Technical Lead to turn approved AI opportunities into practical, secure, and measurable business solutions.

You will evaluate use cases, shape solution architecture, guide prototypes, and coordinate delivery with IT and governance teams to ensure policy alignment and risk controls. You will lead AI intake discussions, assess workflows for business value, data readiness, integration needs, and feasibility, and design scalable AI approaches with reusable

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL skills.
• Proficient Python programming.
• Experience delivering enterprise AI projects.
• Ability to collaborate with IT, cybersecurity, data governance, privacy, and legal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI intake discussions, clarify business needs, and define expected outcomes and success measures.
• Evaluate priority workflows for value, feasibility, data readiness, integration needs, complexity, and supportability.
• Design AI solution approaches, reusable patterns, integrations, and operating requirements.
• Evaluate AI platforms, models, vendors, and products, including security and third-party risk considerations.
• Build or guide proofs of concept and validate accuracy, reliability, usability, cost, and technical fit.
• Coordinate development, testing, deployment readiness, access, support, release activities, and monitoring.
• Support governance reviews with recommendations, evidence, status updates, and escalation of material risks.
• Maintain AI roadmap and backlog, align delivery priorities, and help teams use approved capabilities.

Skills

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Bachelor's in Data Analytics

Job description

Mesa Associates, Inc. is seeking an AI Technical Lead to turn approved AI opportunities into practical, secure, and measurable business solutions.

You will evaluate use cases, shape solution architecture, guide prototypes, and coordinate delivery with IT and governance teams to ensure policy alignment and risk controls. You will lead AI intake discussions, assess workflows for business value, data readiness, integration needs, and feasibility, and design scalable AI approaches with reusable