Generative AI Solutions Engineer

The Generative AI Solutions Engineer develops and supports data integrations, reporting, automation, and AI-enabled solutions with an emphasis on enterprise data and analytics.

The position is responsible for supporting the initial design, development and operationalization of enterprise AI agents that serve student success needs.

Working across the organization, the Generative AI Solutions Engineer, supports data governance, quality monitoring, metadata, lineage, tagging, and traceability to trusted sources., AI Solutions and AI-Enabled Analytics

• Develop, configure, test, and maintain student, advisor, and staff-facing AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, and related technologies.
• Translate business use cases into technical requirements, solution designs, data requirements, prototypes, and testing plans.
• Build prompts, workflows, connectors, knowledge sources, integrations, and retrieval-augmented generation solutions using approved institutional data and documents.
• Monitor and troubleshoot enterprise solutions.
• Document AI architecture, data sources, testing results, safeguards, limitations, and responsible AI practices.

Data Quality, Classification, Metadata, and Lineage

• Develop and maintain data quality rules, validation processes, monitoring, and certification of trusted data assets and reports.
• Profile data and investigate errors; coordinate root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Apply and maintain data tags and approved definitions across enterprise platforms.
• Maintain metadata, automated harvesting, synchronization, and end-to-end lineage across systems.

Data Engineering and Operational Support

• Develop, test, monitor, and maintain data integration pipelines, Fabric assets, APIs, and related platform components using approved source-control, testing, deployment, security, and change-management practices.
• Onboard and integrate enterprise data sources, applications, files, APIs, and external services; build and validate extraction, transformation, reconciliation, loading, and automation processes.
• Document mappings, data flows, and operating procedures; troubleshoot pipeline failures, and performance issues.

Reporting and Analytics

• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, semantic models, analytical reports.
• Create dashboards that monitor AI performance, adoption, data quality, lineage, metadata, and pipeline reliability

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data analytics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 3-5 years of related experience in data integration, software development, analytics, automation, or reporting, and 2 years of experience with AI-enabled solutions.
• Working knowledge of SQL and experience with Python or another relevant programming or scripting language.
• Experience with one or more cloud data, integration, reporting, or automation platforms.
• Experience working with APIs, structured data, data validation, and technical troubleshooting.
• Strong problem-solving, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate defined business needs into practical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI, Copilot Studio, or related Microsoft technologies.
• Experience developing or supporting AI agents, copilots, chatbots, workflow automation, or analytical solutions.
• Familiarity with source control, testing, deployment, data quality, privacy, security, or responsible AI practices.
• Experience working in higher education or with administrative systems such as student, ERP, CRM, or learning management platforms.

Work Environment:

• Typical office setting with extensive sitting and computer work.
• Ability to travel around campus for meetings and other work related duties.

At Bentley we offer a “total rewards” package designed to attract, motivate, retain, and reward our employees. This includes competitive compensation, robust benefits, career development and opportunities, generous paid time off, workplace flexibility and a positive, engaging employee experience. In alignment with the Massachusetts Pay Transparency Act and our commitment to equity and transparency, we’re sharing the salary grade range for this role. The grade range is based on market data and the scope of responsibilities. Final pay will depend on your experience, education, and other relevant qualifications.

Salary Grade Range:

$91,150 - $150,890 per year, When you work at Bentley, you play a vital role in contributing to the education of creative, ethical, and socially responsible students and to creating a dynamic and diverse community. It’s an invigorating atmosphere! Bentley is proud to be an employer of choice, offering competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits including tuition remission and generous time off, all within a welcoming community.

Bentley University is more than just one of the nation’s top business schools. It is a lifelong-learning community that creates successful leaders who make business a force for positive change. With a combination of business and the arts and sciences and a flexible, personalized approach to education, Bentley provides students with critical thinking and practical skills that prepare them to lead successful, rewarding careers. Founded in 1917, the university enrolls 4,100 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate and PhD students and is set on 163 acres in Waltham, Massachusetts, 10 miles west of Boston.