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# Lead AI Enabled Software/DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Guidant Global
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Systems Integration, TypeScript, AI Platforms, Api Design, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://computerjobs.com/us/en/mob/job/5024BDE158AB044869

## About the Role

A strong background as a Senior or Lead Software Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, or similar hands-on technical leadership role

 - Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including system design, clean code, testing, and maintainability

 - Strong experience designing and delivering API-driven and microservice-based systems

 - Proven ability to modernise or integrate Legacy applications into modern software and platform architectures

 - Solid development experience in TypeScript and Python

 - Experience working across software delivery, infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational environments

 - Confidence providing technical leadership and architectural direction without relying on formal authority

 - Ability to balance innovation with pragmatism in complex, production environments

## Description

Set architectural direction for API-first design, system integration, and platform enablement for AI

 - Lead the evolution of Legacy or existing applications towards modern, service-based and API-driven architectures

 - Define and guide integration patterns between applications, platforms, and AI services

 - Make informed decisions on when and how emerging integration approaches (eg protocols such as MCP) should be applied as part of broader system design

 - Work closely with architects, product teams, data scientists, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions

 - Ensure solutions meet appropriate standards for security, resilience, performance, and operability

 - Anticipate and manage architectural and operational risks associated with AI-enabled systems

 - Champion strong engineering practices across software development, DevOps, and platform engineering


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