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# Lead AI Architect ( Agentic SDLC ) at Orion Innovation

- **Company:** Orion Innovation
- **Location:** Edison, NJ
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://www.orioninc.com/careers/job/?gh_jid=4725651006

## Job description

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm.  Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity.  We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Build the systems that change how software gets built.

We’re looking for an exceptional, hands-on Applied AI Engineer who combines deep software engineering expertise with creative thinking about developer productivity. You’re already a power user of AI coding tools, have customized your own development workflow, and are building toward a future where agents take on meaningful engineering work across the software development lifecycle.

In this role, you’ll design and build agentic workflows that connect requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, code review, deployment, and maintenance. You’ll turn promising prototypes into reliable systems that engineering teams trust and use.

You’ll partner directly with engineering leaders, developers, and customers to identify high-value opportunities, ship working solutions, and measure their impact. This role blends hands-on engineering, technical architecture, product judgment, and customer-facing leadership.

## What you'll Do

- Build coding agents that deliver real engineering outcomes. Develop agents that understand repositories, implement features, diagnose defects, write and run tests, address review feedback, and prepare changes for human approval.
- Design agentic workflows across the SDLC. Connect issue trackers, repositories, developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, and observability tools into coordinated workflows with clear ownership and approval points.
- Engineer reliable agent execution. Build context management, tool integrations, orchestration, isolated execution environments, state persistence, retries, and recovery mechanisms for complex engineering tasks.
- Use AI coding tools as part of your daily craft. Apply tools such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Code to prototype, implement, debug, and refine the systems you build. Turn effective personal practices into repeatable team capabilities.
- Build compelling demos and production-ready implementations. Create prototypes, reusable integrations, reference architectures, and automations that demonstrate value and support adoption.
- Evaluate quality and productivity rigorously. Develop benchmarks and evaluation harnesses that measure task completion, code correctness, regression rates, security findings, latency, cost, and engineering effort.
- Make autonomy safe and practical. Implement scoped permissions, secrets handling, audit trails, sandboxing, and human review controls appropriate to each workflow.
- Lead technical discovery and enablement. Work alongside engineering teams to understand their constraints, run hands-on workshops, and guide adoption from initial experiments through production rollout.
- Shape product direction through evidence. Translate deployment experience into actionable product requirements, model feedback, technical guides, and reusable engineering patterns.

## What You Bring

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, applied AI, developer tooling, platform engineering, or technically intensive solutions engineering, with a strong record of shipping working systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript, or another widely used language, and confidence navigating unfamiliar codebases.
- Deep practical experience with AI coding tools and concrete examples of workflows, integrations, or agents you have built and used.
- Hands-on experience building LLM applications with tool calling, structured outputs, context retrieval, and iterative execution.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, Git, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, debugging, and production operations.
- The judgment to distinguish tasks that benefit from agents from those better served by deterministic automation—and to decide where human review is essential.
- A disciplined approach to evaluating generated code and diagnosing failures across models, prompts, context, tools, and execution environments.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain architectural tradeoffs and lead hands-on technical sessions.
- Comfort with ambiguity, fast experimentation, and ownership from problem discovery through delivery and adoption.

What sets you apart

- You’ve built agents that complete multi-step engineering tasks against real repositories.
- You’ve developed agent evaluation frameworks, repository context systems, custom tools, MCP integrations, or orchestration infrastructure.
- You’ve integrated coding agents into enterprise environments with meaningful security and operational requirements.
- You’ve contributed developer tools, open-source projects, technical guides, or reference implementations.
- You can demonstrate measurable improvements in engineering throughput or quality without shifting hidden work onto reviewers.
- You bring a strong product instinct: you identify a valuable problem, build the smallest useful solution, and improve it based on evidence.

What Success looks like

Engineering teams adopt the workflows you build because they reliably help them ship better software. Agents complete clearly scoped tasks with measurable quality, failures are visible and recoverable, and successful experiments become reusable capabilities across teams.

Show us what you’ve built. A repository, live demo, technical walkthrough, or concrete example of an agentic development workflow will help us understand how you think and execute. Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Orion Systems Integrators, LLC and its subsidiaries and its affiliates (collectively, “Orion,” “we” or “us”) are committed to protecting your privacy. This https://www.orioninc.com/candidate-data-privacy-policy/ (“Notice”) explains:

- What information we collect during our application and recruitment process and why we collect it;
- How we handle that information; and
- How to access and update that information.

Your use of Orion services is governed by any applicable terms in this notice and our general [Privacy Policy](https://www.orioninc.com/privacy-policy/).

## About Orion Innovation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Orion Innovation is a global software engineering and data company that helps enterprises modernize technology, reimagine customer experiences, and accelerate growth through Data, AI, Cloud, and Experience Design.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by One Equity Partners in 2018)
- **Headquarters**: Iselin, New Jersey, United States
- **Founded**: 1993
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting, with deep vertical expertise in Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Healthcare & Life Sciences, Telecom, Media & Technology, Sports & Entertainment, and Professional Services.
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises and mid-market organizations (B2B) across regulated industries seeking digital transformation.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To help clients solve complex challenges, drive transformation, and move confidently toward what’s next. Their purpose is to build what matters, using Data, AI, and Cloud to turn technology into tangible business impact.

## Products & Services
Orion delivers services rather than a single product, organized into core capabilities:

- **Engineering**: Cloud-native development, AI/ML, mobile development, and quality engineering to accelerate time to market.
- **Data & Analytics**: Data strategy, engineering, migration, analytics, and modern data platforms.
- **AI**: Enterprise AI adoption advisory, responsible AI, generative AI development, and agentic systems.
- **Cloud**: Cloud and VMware migration, legacy modernization, cloud security, managed services, and DevSecOps (hybrid and multi-cloud).
- **Experience Design**: Human-centered design, UX/UI prototyping, journey management, and martech.
- **Cybersecurity**: Adaptive cybersecurity, AI security, cyber defense operations, and GRC.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company, owned by One Equity Partners).
- **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Annual revenue of **$1.3 billion** (2025 data from LinkedIn).
- **Key Metric (Headcount)**: **6,000+ global associates** (as per company website; LinkedIn reports 3,122 with +8.0% YoY growth).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: **One Equity Partners** (majority owner); partner ecosystem includes hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and leading data, cloud, and cybersecurity technology partners.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - 30+ years in business with **20+ years average tenure** of top 10 clients (indicating high retention).
    - **12 major global delivery centers** in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe (incl. Serbia, Romania), and India/APAC.
    - Active M&A history: acquired Banktech Software Services (2023), NetRD (2021), MERA (2019), Behavior (2019), Cabeus (2019).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: Unlike generalist IT shops, Orion has 30+ years of specialized experience in highly regulated industries (BFSI, Healthcare, Telecom).
- **Full-Stack Digital Transformation**: Uniquely combines Data, AI, Cloud, Engineering, Design, and Cybersecurity under one roof, acting as a true end-to-end partner.
- **Global Delivery Model**: Operates nearshore and offshore centers (12+ major delivery locations) enabling 24x7 support and cost efficiency.
- **High Client Stickiness**: Average tenure of top 10 clients is **20+ years**, a strong signal of trust and delivery quality.
- **Hyperscaler Partnerships**: Co-innovates with the three major cloud providers, acting as a trusted advisor.

## Strategic Focus
- **Becoming a Data and AI Powerhouse**: The company is explicitly evolving into a global "Data and AI" leader, investing heavily in AI/ML, generative AI, and agentic systems.
- **Enterprise AI Adoption**: Focus on moving clients from pilot to production scale with responsible and secure AI.
- **Geographic Expansion**: Continued investment in their global delivery network across North America, Europe, and India/APAC.
- **Industry Specialization**: Deepening vertical expertise in existing high-value sectors (BFSI, Healthcare, Telecom).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Growth**: Described as a place where "curiosity drives progress" with a "Growth Mindset" value. Employees report high exposure to cutting-edge Data, AI, and next-gen engineering [orioninnovation.com](https://www.orioninnovation.com/careers/life-at-orion/).
- **Learning & Development**: Strong emphasis on upskilling through the **Orion Academy** and hands-on global project work. Leaders are said to invest in employee progress [orioninnovation.com](https://www.orioninnovation.com/careers/life-at-orion/).
- **Work Model**: **Hybrid** work model designed for "connection, flexibility, and high-performance teams" [orioninnovation.com](https://www.orioninnovation.com/careers/life-at-orion/). They blend flexibility with intentional collaboration.
- **Global & Diverse**: A team of 6,000+ across 20+ nationalities. Inclusion is a stated priority, with cultural celebrations and an environment encouraging authenticity.
- **Impact & Stability**: The company boasts high client retention (20+ year average) and works on mission-critical systems for large enterprises, offering a mix of project stability and challenging work.
- **Perks & Recognition**: Awarded the **Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation**, indicating a focus on employee well-being and health benefits [orioninnovation.com](https://www.orioninnovation.com/careers/life-at-orion/).

## Sources
1. [Orion Innovation - Homepage](https://www.orioninnovation.com/)
2. [Orion Innovation - About Us](https://www.orioninnovation.com/about/who-we-are/)
3. [Orion Innovation - Life at Orion](https://www.orioninnovation.com/careers/life-at-orion/)
4. [Orion Innovation - Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orioninnovation)
5. [Orion Innovation - LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orioninnovation)

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