Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000 Company; Glendale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 147,282,000 - 191,152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Job summary

Global Technical Talent seeks a hands-on Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade AI systems on Microsoft Azure for the Digital Supply Chain Systems organization in Glendale, AZ. You will develop reusable, scalable, and explainable enterprise AI capabilities supporting evolving business requirements.

The role emphasizes architecture, RAG data pipelines, NL2SQL, and guardrails for Responsible AI.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• 3 years of hands-on experience developing Generative AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, or LLM-based applications, including substantial recent experience with Agentic AI.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade single-agent and multi-agent systems in Azure AI Foundry.
• Architect scalable Generative AI solutions leveraging Azure services.
• Build and govern RAG architectures using enterprise data sources.
• Develop secure, reliable integrations between agents and enterprise systems.
• Design NL2SQL capabilities with secure data access.
• Define semantic-layer strategies for enterprise data models and terminology.
• Architect decision intelligence to support informed decision-making.
• Establish reusable frameworks for impact analysis and decision traceability.
• Ensure explainable, grounded AI recommendations with authoritative data.
• Define evaluation methodologies for response and reasoning quality.
• Implement guardrails and Responsible AI controls; ensure compliance and safety.
• Establish governance, security, safety, transparency, and compliance standards.
• Implement observability and cost-optimized AI telemetry and dashboards.
• Lead architectural decisions for cloud-native AI platforms; mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into reusable AI capabilities.
• Partner with data engineering for AI-ready data products and metadata frameworks.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies and industry practices.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

LLMOps

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Agentic AI

NL2SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's preferred

Tools

Microsoft Agent Framework

Semantic Kernel

LangGraph

AutoGen

Azure Functions

API Management

Entra ID

Key Vault

Azure SQL/Cosmos DB

AKS / Azure Container Apps

Job description

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — 3 days onsite per week

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $51.40-$66.71 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Location: Glendale, AZ

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — 3 days onsite per week

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $51.40-$66.71 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production‑grade Agentic AI, Decision Intelligence, and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation solutions on Microsoft Azure for the Digital Supply Chain Systems organization. The role will support diverse and evolving DSCS business requirements by developing reusable, scalable, secure, and explainable enterprise AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build production‑grade single‑agent and multi‑agent systems in Azure AI Foundry capable of orchestrating reasoning, planning, tool usage, and workflow execution.
• Architect scalable Generative AI solutions leveraging Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and other enterprise AI services.
• Build and govern Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures using structured and unstructured enterprise data sources, including embeddings, vector/hybrid search, chunking, metadata filtering, reranking, grounding, and citations.
• Develop secure, reliable integrations between agents and enterprise systems using Model Context Protocol (MCP), REST APIs, relational databases, and event‑driven services.
• Design Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) capabilities, ensuring accuracy, explainability, and secure access to enterprise data.
• Define semantic‑layer strategies that enable AI agents to understand enterprise data models, business metrics, terminology, and relationships.
• Architect decision intelligence capabilities that combine enterprise data, business context, analytics, and AI reasoning to support informed decision‑making.
• Establish reusable frameworks for impact analysis, dependency identification, prioritization, recommendation generation, and decision traceability.
• Ensure AI‑generated recommendations are explainable, evidence‑based, grounded in authoritative enterprise data, and aligned with business objectives.
• Define and automate evaluation methodologies for response quality, reasoning quality, recommendation relevance, business usefulness, and user trust, including golden datasets, LLM‑based evaluation, and regression evals wired into CI/CD.
• Implement guardrails and Responsible AI controls: input/output content safety, PII protection, grounding checks, authorization boundaries, and human‑in‑the‑loop escalation paths.
• Establish governance, security, safety, transparency, and compliance standards for enterprise AI solutions.
• Implementation of observability and monitoring frameworks for AI applications, including quality, performance, reliability, and adoption metrics, plus traces, tool calls, latency, token usage, and cost.
• Optimize solutions for cost and latency through model selection, prompt and context engineering, caching, and workload right‑sizing.
• Drive architectural decisions for scalable, cloud‑native AI platforms using modern software engineering, DevOps, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
• Define technical standards, reference architecture, and reusable frameworks for AI agents, reasoning systems, and decision‑support applications.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical framework on Agentic AI, decision intelligence, software architecture, and enterprise AI best practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders and domain experts to transform complex business requirements into reusable AI capabilities.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to develop AI‑ready data products, semantic models, metadata frameworks, and enterprise knowledge layers.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and industry practices, evaluating their applicability within DSCS and enterprise environments.

Required Skills

• Strong programming proficiency in Python; working knowledge of TypeScript/Node.js or a comparable language for application services.
• Strong software engineering background with experience designing and deploying production‑grade cloud applications.
• Hands‑on experience building Generative AI and RAG applications with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, LLM APIs, embeddings, vector or hybrid search, knowledge retrieval, grounding, and citations.
• Experience with Agentic AI frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, AutoGen, or comparable frameworks, including single‑agent and multi‑agent systems, tool calling, MCP‑based tool integration, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
• Experience building natural language to SQL or conversational analytics solutions, including schema and metadata modeling, query generation, query validation, and grounding answers in retrieved data.
• Experience designing or contributing to decision intelligence systems that combine AI, analytics, business context, and operational workflows to improve decision quality and business outcomes.
• Experience evaluating and improving agent quality through prompt engineering, test datasets, LLM‑based evaluation, safety checks, reasoning‑quality assessment, and production feedback loops.
• Strong knowledge of LLMOps, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes, observability, and production operations for AI applications.
• Working knowledge of core Azure platform services: AKS or Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Entra ID, Key Vault, and Azure SQL or Cosmos DB.
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs, asynchronous patterns, secure integrations, relational databases, SQL, SQL/NoSQL data stores, and data engineering or ETL pipelines.
• Experience with enterprise‑scale secure AI deployments, including identity, authorization, data privacy, compliance, and production monitoring.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, or Azure Data Factory for AI‑ready data pipelines.
• Exposure to Copilot Studio, Power Platform, or Teams‑based agent experiences.
• Experience with model fine‑tuning (e.g., LoRA/QLoRA), prompt caching, and token/cost optimization at scale.
• Supply chain domain knowledge (procurement, expediting, logistics, materials management) or familiarity with ERP data such as Oracle EBS or SAP.
• Front‑end experience with React and TypeScript for building agent‑facing user interfaces.
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI‑102/AI‑103) or Azure Solutions Architect (AZ‑305).

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (Master's preferred)

Required Experience

• 8 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• 3 years of hands‑on experience developing Generative AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, or LLM‑based applications, including substantial recent experience with Agentic AI.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This client is a privately held global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction, with more than 125 years of experience delivering complex infrastructure projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. The organization has completed more than 25,000 projects spanning energy and industrial, infrastructure, nuclear and environmental remediation, government services, and mining and metals — at a scale that includes national governments, global energy companies, and the world's largest public agencies among its clients. With a Glassdoor rating of 4.0 stars from nearly 2,500 employee reviews and 78 percent of employees recommending the company to a friend, the organization has earned strong employee endorsement and a 4.0-star rating for career opportunities — one of the highest in its sector. Teams here include civil and structural engineers, project controls specialists, procurement managers, nuclear and environmental remediation professionals, and a growing cohort of enterprise IT, ERP, and AI engineering talent supporting the organization's digital transformation at industrial scale.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American‑owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-13801 Industry: Engineering