Remote Fractional AI Delivery Engine Architect

Gofractional; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in US

Fractional contract

Executive exposure

Job summary

Servant seeks an experienced AI Delivery Engine Leader to design and build the next generation of our delivery organization. You will architect an AI-first operating model that moves ideas from strategy to production—leveraging AI agents, automation, orchestration, and modern software delivery patterns to dramatically increase speed, quality, and scalability.

The role will bridge strategy and execution, defining architecture, tooling, governance, and an implementation roadmap to modernize

Qualifications

• Deep technical experience in AI systems, LLMs, agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, and modern software architecture.
• Experience designing AI-first software delivery workflows or AI factory operating models.
• Track record of transforming engineering organizations through automation and AI.
• Experience implementing AI across multiple phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering.
• Experience evaluating and integrating emerging AI technologies into enterprise environments.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution.
• Exceptional communication skills with executive and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect Servant's AI-first delivery operating model from strategy through implementation and ongoing support.
• Define workflows, orchestration patterns, automation, and governance for an efficient AI-enabled delivery organization.
• Develop repeatable delivery frameworks that leverage AI agents throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Create scalable processes that reduce manual effort while maintaining quality, security, and reliability.
• Design and implement an AI factory capable of moving ideas from concept to production via AI workflows.
• Identify where humans remain essential versus where AI can accelerate execution.
• Evaluate opportunities to automate planning, architecture, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Establish delivery patterns for smaller, highly effective project teams.
• Evaluate emerging AI platforms, agent frameworks, orchestration tools, and delivery technologies.
• Recommend tooling to support an AI-first organization.
• Partner with engineering, product, strategy, and delivery leaders to modernize processes.
• Provide external perspectives from organizations with successful AI-enabled delivery models.
• Assess delivery processes and identify opportunities to automate or simplify.
• Define new roles, responsibilities, and operating rhythms in an AI-enabled organization.
• Guide leaders through organizational change balancing innovation with practical execution.
• Establish metrics to measure speed, quality, utilization, automation, and delivery effectiveness.
• Act as trusted advisor to executive leadership on AI strategy and delivery transformation.
• Translate AI capabilities into practical business value.
• Build a phased roadmap toward increasingly autonomous delivery capabilities.

Skills

AI systems

LLMs

orchestration platforms

modern software architecture

automation

DevOps

communication skills

executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field

Tools

AI agent frameworks

integration of AI platforms

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Servant seeks an experienced AI Delivery Engine Leader to design and build the next generation of our delivery organization. You will architect an AI-first operating model that moves ideas from strategy to production—leveraging AI agents, automation, orchestration, and modern software delivery patterns to dramatically increase speed, quality, and scalability.

The role will bridge strategy and execution, defining architecture, tooling, governance, and an implementation roadmap to modernize