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About the Role

Vodafone is seeking an AI Engineer Technical Lead to join their team in Al Qatif. This full-time position focuses on leading the design, development, and productionization of AI systems that deliver measurable business value at scale.

Role Overview

As a Lead AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI & Agentic AI, you will architect multimodal LLM solutions, agentic systems (single- and multi-agent), and robust RAG pipelines. You will collaborate closely with product, data, platform engineering, security, and business stakeholders. A key aspect of this role involves mentoring a growing team of AI engineers and acting as a business translator to ensure clarity between technical strategy and business outcomes, particularly within regulated, high availability environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of Generative & Agentic AI models tailored to business needs.
• Architect scalable and secure AI pipelines leveraging cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
• Guide the development and integrations with LLMs, prompt engineering, or RAG.
• Evaluate and integrate open-source and proprietary GenAI & AgenticAI tools.
• Collaborate with product and domain teams to identify and prioritize impactful GenAI & AgenticAI use cases.
• Leverage A2A (Agent‑to‑Agent) protocols to enable inter-agent collaboration, delegation, negotiation, and coordination.
• Adopt MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol) to expose standardized tools/capabilities for interoperability and portability.
• Build and maintain a Tool/Skills Registry with safe execution sandboxes and rate/circuit controls.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and vice versa.
• Act as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with responsible AI, privacy, and security standards.
• Mentor and coach AI team members, supporting their technical growth.
• Monitor emerging trends in GenAI and proactively suggest innovative applications.
• Support testing activities (functional and non-functional) and investigate/fix defects and incidents.
• Prepare release packages for test and production environments.
• Manage incidents and problems as level two and level three support.

Qualifications and Experience

• Good communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and learn fast-track technologies.
• Good organizational skills with the ability to manage time and prioritize workload.
• Track record of contributing to solving complex problems and supporting technical delivery.
• Proven ability to take initiative to deliver projects and address engineering challenges.
• Recommends and supports implementation of process, product, or service improvements.
• Proficient in English, both spoken and written.
• Experience deploying AI solutions in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI (GPT family), Anthropic (Claude), Azure OpenAI, and abstracting across providers.
• Knowledge of A2A (Agent‑to‑Agent) patterns and implementing multi-agent topologies.
• Experience exposing/consuming MCP Servers for tool standardization.
• Familiarity with security and compliance aspects including OAuth2/OIDC, secret management, network isolation, PII controls, and Responsible AI guardrails.
• Experience in building REST APIs & Cloud Native Microservices.
• Experience in Java, Spring Boot.
• Understanding of Docker & Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD supporting tools (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub).
• Good knowledge of Network Communication/Integration protocols (SOAP, REST JSON).

Work Environment and Type

This is a full-time position located in Al Qatif. The role involves working within a global company focused on connectivity and technological advancement.