Senior AI Solutions Lead for Enterprise AI & Automations

Acosta; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Acosta Group seeks a Lead AI Engineer to drive hands-on design and delivery of priority AI solutions, including agents, copilots, and workflow automations. You will translate business requirements into practical designs and work with the AI Architecture & Platform leader to apply enterprise standards.

You will guide engineers and partners across transformation programs, ensuring production readiness, security, observability, and reusable patterns while advancing responsible AI within the

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive technology experience spanning hands-on software engineering, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, cloud-native application delivery, platform engineering, or intelligent automation.
• 5+ years leading technical delivery of enterprise-grade software, AI/ML, GenAI, automation, data product, cloud application, or integration solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Proven experience building AI-enabled applications such as agents, copilots, RAG solutions, LLM-powered workflows, APIs, decision-support tools, workflow automations, or ML-enabled products.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on design and development of priority AI solutions, including agents, copilots, RAG applications, workflow automations, AI-enabled applications, and reusable accelerators.
• Translate approved use cases and business requirements into practical solution designs, prototypes, technical plans, and implementation approaches.
• Partner with the AI Architecture & Platform leader to apply enterprise standards for architecture, integration, security, observability, evaluation, lifecycle management, and reuse.
• Work with Transformation programs, corporate functions and Business Units to build, test, iterate, and scale AI-enabled solutions.
• Create reusable code patterns, templates, reference implementations, agent frameworks, prompt/evaluation assets, APIs, and integration components.
• Guide internal engineers, analysts, citizen developers, and external delivery partners on AI engineering practices and solution quality.
• Support prototype-to-production transitions, including testing, monitoring, reliability, deployment, supportability, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Assess technical feasibility, data readiness, integration needs, security implications, and development complexity for priority AI use cases.
• Collaborate with AI Governance, Cyber, Data, and Technology teams to ensure delivery aligns with responsible AI and enterprise controls.
• Help evaluate vendor-built solutions by challenging technical approach, architecture choices, maintainability, portability, and production readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture

Communication

Problem Solving

Tools

Azure AI / Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Copilot Studio

Semantic Kernel

Power Platform

Fabric

Palantir Foundry / AIP / Ontology

Databricks

Power BI

Vector search

RAG

Embeddings

Agent orchestration

Governance controls

MLOps / LLMOps

Job description

Acosta Group seeks a Lead AI Engineer to drive hands-on design and delivery of priority AI solutions, including agents, copilots, and workflow automations. You will translate business requirements into practical designs and work with the AI Architecture & Platform leader to apply enterprise standards.

You will guide engineers and partners across transformation programs, ensuring production readiness, security, observability, and reusable patterns while advancing responsible AI within the