Senior AI & MCP Strategy Lead | Remote

Apex Systems; Birmingham (AL); Remote; USD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with match

ESPP

HSA

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Sr AI & MCP Strategist in Birmingham, AL, with remote options, to define a long‑term AI adoption roadmap and MCP architecture. You will assess current AI capabilities, establish governance, and design scalable data and model contexts across platforms such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Databricks Genie.

The role emphasizes collaboration with executives, crafting standards for data grounding, prompts, and integration logic.

Qualifications

• Enterprise AI strategy and governance.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) architecture.
• Databricks, Copilot, and enterprise AI ecosystems.
• Data architecture and knowledge management.
• AI governance and responsible AI frameworks.
• Utility industry experience.
• Executive stakeholder engagement and roadmap development.

Responsibilities

• Assess current AI, analytics, and data platform capabilities across our client’s environment.
• Evaluate MCP architecture, implementation patterns, and best practices.
• Review existing Performance MCP capabilities and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Develop standards for MCP architecture, data connectivity, governance, prompt design, data grounding, business logic integration, and response quality and consistency.
• Define a long‑term AI roadmap supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Databricks Genie, and future AI solutions.
• Evaluate data readiness across sources including Oracle, SQL Server, Denodo, Maximo, PI, SCADA, SharePoint, PDFs, and shared drives.
• Recommend what workloads belong in Databricks versus other platforms and identify opportunities for platform‑agnostic AI architecture.

Skills

AI strategy

MCP architecture

Databricks & Copilot

Data architecture

AI governance

Utility industry

Executive stakeholder eng

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a Sr AI & MCP Strategist in Birmingham, AL, with remote options, to define a long‑term AI adoption roadmap and MCP architecture. You will assess current AI capabilities, establish governance, and design scalable data and model contexts across platforms such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Databricks Genie.

The role emphasizes collaboration with executives, crafting standards for data grounding, prompts, and integration logic.