Remote Senior Lead, AI Developer Enablement

Lumen Technologies; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Lead Software Developer, AI Developer Enablement to drive AI-enabled developer workflows and reusable capabilities across engineering teams.

The role focuses on building scalable AI tools, prompts, and patterns, while partnering with security, platform, and architecture to ensure responsible AI adoption. You will mentor engineers and lead initiatives from discovery to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, developer productivity, AI enablement, automation, or related disciplines.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting modern software solutions, developer tools, APIs, integrations, automation frameworks, or internal platforms.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, coding assistants, generative AI capabilities, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, or applied AI solutions for engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, code quality, testing, documentation, secure coding, CI/CD, operational reliability, and production support practices.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous developer needs into practical, secure, scalable, and reusable technical solutions.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including engineering, platform, security, product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts, demonstrate AI-enabled workflows, influence adoption, and create clear enablement materials.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI, data protection, security considerations, governance, and risk management for enterprise AI adoption.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, and drive measurable improvements in developer productivity and engineering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-enabled developer workflows for code generation, reviews, debugging, testing, documentation, research, incident triage, and platform navigation.
• Develop reusable prompts, agents, integrations, and workflow accelerators that improve developer productivity while aligning with architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.
• Identify development friction and translate it into high-impact AI solutions; reduce toil and accelerate delivery.
• Define adoption metrics, feedback loops, and success measures to demonstrate improvements in quality and delivery speed.
• Build and scale shared AI capabilities, reference architectures, prompt libraries, templates, and playbooks.
• Partner with platform, architecture, and security teams to ensure AI solutions are maintainable, discoverable, observable, governed, and aligned with responsible AI practices.
• Improve access to engineering knowledge through AI-powered search, summarization, technical Q&A, and context-aware support.
• Lead AI enablement initiatives from discovery through production; manage risks related to security, data access, hallucinations, and compliance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for AI developer enablement; foster innovation and accountability.

Skills

Software development

Platform engineering

AI enablement

Automation

Developer productivity

APIs

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

CI/CD

AI workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

Developer tooling

Automation frameworks

CI/CD

Job description

Lumen Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Lead Software Developer, AI Developer Enablement to drive AI-enabled developer workflows and reusable capabilities across engineering teams.

The role focuses on building scalable AI tools, prompts, and patterns, while partnering with security, platform, and architecture to ensure responsible AI adoption. You will mentor engineers and lead initiatives from discovery to production.