Senior AI-Driven Software Lead for Modernization

Delan Associates, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Delan Associates, Inc. seeks a hands-on Senior Software Developer / Technical Lead with an AI focus to guide teams delivering new applications and modernizing existing ones in the United States.

You will shape modernization programs, set architecture direction, review AI-generated outputs, and mentor developers to produce secure, maintainable software at pace. This role blends hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities, including establishing delivery patterns, assessing risks, and

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software development experience delivering production-quality applications.
• Experience leading a team of developers, including mentoring, code review, technical planning, delivery guidance, and issue resolution.
• Experience setting technical direction for software delivery projects, including architecture decisions, engineering standards, delivery patterns, and technical risk management.
• Experience with at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Go, or comparable technologies.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to support coding, refactoring, testing, documentation, debugging, code comprehension, and architecture exploration.
• Experience reviewing and validating AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, performance, testability, and alignment with architecture and requirements.
• Familiarity with agentic development concepts and experience building or prototyping fit-for-purpose agents using LangGraph, A2A, MCP-enabled tools, or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers through new application builds and modernization programs while remaining actively involved in design, coding, review, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Set technical direction for projects, including architecture, integration patterns, modernization strategy, engineering standards, delivery approach, and technical risk management.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code comprehension, generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, and migration planning while ensuring outputs are validated by experienced engineering judgment.
• Architect and build fit-for-purpose agents and agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph, A2A, MCP-enabled tools, or comparable technologies.
• Guide modernization of existing applications by analyzing legacy code, identifying business logic, assessing constraints, defining target architecture, and creating incremental transformation roadmaps.
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions across APIs, data models, cloud services, security, observability, integration, DevSecOps, and user experience considerations.
• Mentor developers in software engineering practices, AI-assisted delivery techniques, secure coding, automated testing, maintainable design, and effective code review.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, client technical teams, and delivery leaders to translate business needs into executable technical plans.
• Identify and manage risks in AI-generated software, including brittle code, hidden assumptions, weak tests, security issues, licensing concerns, maintainability gaps, and architecture drift.
• Create reusable patterns, accelerators, prompts, agents, reference architectures, and engineering practices that help the broader team deliver modernization work more effectively.

Skills

Hands-on development

Team leadership

Architecture direction

AI-assisted development

Code review

Security and maintainability

Mentoring developers

Client delivery coordination

Tools

LangGraph

A2A

MCP-enabled tools

OpenAI APIs

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Delan Associates, Inc. seeks a hands-on Senior Software Developer / Technical Lead with an AI focus to guide teams delivering new applications and modernizing existing ones in the United States.

You will shape modernization programs, set architecture direction, review AI-generated outputs, and mentor developers to produce secure, maintainable software at pace. This role blends hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities, including establishing delivery patterns, assessing risks, and