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Customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer who architects and delivers agentic AI POCs and enterprise deployments, mentors distributed teams, optimizes platform performance, and enforces MLOps/FinOps best practices.

Lead end-to-end UX research across web, mobile, and in-store retail touchpoints. Design and run qualitative and quantitative studies, synthesize insights into personas, journey maps, and service blueprints, influence product strategy, mentor junior researchers, and promote accessibility and user-centered design across omnichannel experiences.

Lead performance testing efforts: design and execute load tests, analyze results, perform root cause analysis, collaborate with developers and infrastructure to improve system performance, establish performance testing practices, create test artifacts, and generate management reports.

Design and own an end-to-end, agentic AI content generation platform using .NET and Azure. Architect event-driven agents, RAG pipelines with Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search, integrate third-party and WordPress APIs, ensure multitenancy, security, observability, and CI/CD with IaC. Collaborate with DevOps to deliver scalable, auditable content automation.

Own the AI use-case backlog and prioritize agent-assist scale-out. Translate business intent into Epics, Features, and User Stories with explicit acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps. Run sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and demos on a fast-paced AI-infused agile cadence. Leverage AI tooling to draft requirements, generate stories, and author acceptance criteria. Coordinate with stakeholders and transformation advisors to meet call reduction, AHT, and deflection targets.

Design, build, and scale production Generative AI applications: multi-agent systems, advanced RAG pipelines, LLM integration and fine-tuning, scalable FastAPI backends, vector search, monitoring, and Dockerized deployments.

Design, develop, deploy, and manage API proxies on Apigee Edge/X across on-prem, cloud (GCP), and hybrid environments. Implement Apigee policies for security, traffic management, caching, transformations, and error handling. Troubleshoot runtime issues, integrate with backend services, manage environments and keystores, participate in CI/CD, and maintain API documentation.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale microservices systems. Define standards, mentor teams, drive cloud, containerization, CI/CD, observability, data strategies, and risk mitigation while aligning technology with business goals.

Lead frontend development using Angular and modern web technologies. Build responsive, cross-browser interfaces, integrate with REST/GraphQL backends, use AG Grid, apply UI/UX best practices, and follow engineering best practices for scalable, resilient applications.

Design, build, and execute automated tests for native mobile and WebView user journeys, APIs, and integrations. Perform performance and reliability testing for critical APIs and transactions, run tests on cloud device farms, analyze failures across devices/OS versions, participate in sprint planning, test design, defect triage, and collaborate with developers to resolve quality issues early.