Lead Python Engineer
Primary stack
Python
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About the Position
We are looking for a Lead Python Engineer to lead a supplier team within the customer's AI Acceleration group, focused on building and enhancing AI agents and agentic capabilities to support BI's transition to AI Native teams.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, leverage and improve existing AI agents, tools and frameworks, ensuring alignment with BI and Enterprise needs
- Drive the enhancement of the SAGE (Smart Augmented Quality Engineering) platform, including tuning test-generation and self-healing agents, and development of new agents (e.g., Contract testing agents)
- Automate high-impact engineering workflows by integrating existing or newly developed AI agents (such as Agile and QE agents)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (BI, Enterprise, QE, Agile) to identify automation opportunities and deliver scalable AI solutions
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning and high performance
- Ensure best practices in AI engineering, quality assurance and agile methodologies are followed throughout the project lifecycle
- Communicate progress, challenges and solutions to stakeholders, providing technical leadership and strategic direction
- Own the architecture and technical direction of AI/agentic systems, ensuring scalability, reliability and maintainability
- Define and enforce best practices for agent design, orchestration and evaluation
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proven experience leading teams in AI/ML engineering projects, preferably in agentic systems or automation platforms
- Hands-on expertise in AI agent development, tuning and integration (Python, ML frameworks, agentic architectures)
- Deep understanding of quality engineering, test automation and self-healing systems
- Background in Agile methodologies and transitioning teams to AI Native practices
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and mentoring skills
- Capability to analyze complex workflows and identify automation opportunities
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher
We Offer
- Opportunity to work remotely in Ukraine
- Be part of a leading AI Acceleration group
- Collaborate with a diverse and talented team
About the Company
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