Agentic AI Lead Engineer (Financial Services)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, OH, or Dallas, TX

Must be able to work onsite

@Orchard LLC has an immediate requirement for an Agentic AI Lead Engineer to become a lead member of the leading US Bank's Agentic AI team. The Lead Engineer will build Agentic AI-related automation for a variety of banking use cases.

Your responsibilities will include.

• Perform the AI Intent lead role, combining Scrum Master and Product Owner roles to envision the AI automation roadmap.
• Build AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, memory management, and autonomous task execution.
• Utilize workflow configuration in Azure Foundry/AWS Bedrock.
• Implement prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and tool-calling mechanisms.
• Develop multi-agent workflows using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, MCP Server, or Semantic Kernel.
• Design Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for context-aware AI responses.
• Develop scalable backend services and APIs to support AI agent operations.
• Monitor agent performance, reliability, and response quality.
• Ensure responsible AI practices, including security, governance, observability, and compliance. 
• Collaborate with data engineers, software developers, and business teams to deliver AI-driven automation solutions

Your background will include.

• Demonstrate strength in the AI Agent automation development process using Azure/AWS.
• Experience in creating an AI product roadmap and conducting backlog maintenance.
• At least 5 years in software development with demonstrable Agentic AI implementation experience.
• Must be strong in Azure Foundry/AWS Bedrock-related agentic automation implementation.
• Excellent development skills using Python, SQL, and Pandas.
• Good exposure to the agile testing process.
• Should have excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders

Compensation: Compensation ranges are determined by several factors, including skill set, experience, licensure, certifications, and location. The anticipated range for a base salary for this role is between $60K & $140K. There may be some flexibility for exceptionally qualified individuals.

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent-scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.