Lead AI Forward Engineer

Job Description The Lead AI Forward Engineer designs and guides the delivery of AI-powered solutions that reduce operational toil and accelerate technology teams across the CIO organization. This role operates as a forward-deployed solution architect and engineer, partnering closely with teams to identify opportunities, design end-to-end architectures, and drive implementations to production. You will own solution design from concept through deployment, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, extensible, secure, and operationally reliable.

You will evaluate emerging AI technologies, define repeatable patterns, and help build new capabilities through hands-on implementation, mentorship, and shared standards. Key

Identify high-impact opportunities to apply AI automation and intelligent agents across CIO technology teams. Partner with engineering teams, service owners, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements, solution designs, and delivery plans. Design end-to-end AI solutions, including workflows, integration patterns, data flows, APIs, and operational considerations.

Guide implementations from prototype through production, ensuring solutions meet reliability, security, compliance, and maintainability expectations. Define reusable architectural patterns and reference designs to enable broader adoption of AI capabilities across teams. Build scalable pipelines to collect and analyze inference-level and workflow-level teleme