Lead, AI Practice: Elevate Software Delivery

Navitus; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

401K match

Adoption assistance

Flexible Spending Account

Educational assistance

Professional membership

Referral bonus

Job summary

Navitus is seeking a Lead, Software Development AI Practice to shape AI enablement across delivery and development teams, building scalable patterns, reusable tools, and standards to raise quality and efficiency in software delivery.

The role serves as a subject matter expert on generative AI and agentic workflows, aligning AI initiatives with enterprise security, data governance, and regulatory requirements while driving innovation and business value. Minimal travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty certification preferred.
• Responsible AI/AI Governance certification preferred.
• Industry-recognized Certified AI Professional certification or equivalent AI/ML certification preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in software development or architecture.
• 3+ years of experience focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies.
• Demonstrated experience defining software development AI frameworks and tools (including coaching and practice roll-out / demonstration) required.
• Demonstrated experience leading or scaling generative AI, machine learning, or agentic AI capabilities from proof of concept through broader adoption required.
• Demonstrated experience applying security, privacy, data governance, and risk requirements to technology solutions in a regulated or data-sensitive environment required.
• Demonstrated experience influencing technical and business stakeholders and driving adoption across teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority required.
• Participate in, adhere to, and support compliance program objectives.
• The ability to consistently interact cooperatively and respectfully with other employees.

Responsibilities

• Partner with many groups across Navitus (Software Development and Delivery, Architecture, Security, Data Services, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases that improve software quality, engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.
• Establish reusable AI patterns, reference architectures, integration approaches, and development standards for generative AI, machine learning, and agentic AI capabilities.
• Build and maintain AI-enabled services and components, including model interfaces, orchestration services, agent frameworks, prompt/tooling patterns, and reusable developer enablement assets.
• Lead proof-of-concept and pilot initiatives that demonstrate practical AI value, then convert successful experiments into repeatable capabilities for broader adoption.
• Provide hands-on coaching, demonstrations, and daily enablement to developers, delivery roles, and product teams on effective AI tools, tactics, and responsible usage.
• Serve as the primary AI adoption point of contact for Software Development and Delivery, influencing teams through expertise, practical value, and strong partnership rather than direct reporting authority.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise AI governance, responsible AI standards, security requirements, data privacy expectations, auditability needs, and model transparency principles.
• Support agentic AI workflows, including orchestration, tool integration, context management, workflow design, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Own AI adoption measurement, including tools, metrics, reporting, training, and leadership updates that demonstrate usage, quality improvement, efficiency gains, and business impact.
• Evaluate emerging AI platforms, tools, and capabilities for fit with enterprise architecture, security, scalability, interoperability, cost, and Software Development and Delivery needs, and recommends appropriate adoption approaches.
• Minimal travel may be required for meetings, training, or other business needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

AI strategy

Coaching

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Governance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IS/SE or related field

Tools

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Responsible AI Governance certification

Certified AI Professional (AI/ML)

Job description

Navitus is seeking a Lead, Software Development AI Practice to shape AI enablement across delivery and development teams, building scalable patterns, reusable tools, and standards to raise quality and efficiency in software delivery.

The role serves as a subject matter expert on generative AI and agentic workflows, aligning AI initiatives with enterprise security, data governance, and regulatory requirements while driving innovation and business value. Minimal travel may be required.