Forward Deployed Technical Lead (AI / Azure)

Vacancy details

Argentina Argentina

Remote Remote

Recruiter

Marharyta Shvets

Role overview

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Forward Deployed Technical Lead (AI / Azure) for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in LATAM. Our client is an established, third-generation family business with more than 80 years of history in wholesale protein distribution across the Pacific Northwest. Known for rigorous food-safety standards and a customer-first culture.

As a Forward Deployed Technical Lead, you will serve as the pod’s hands-on architect. You will design and deliver every capability increment inside the client’s Azure tenancy, working side by side with the client’s engineers and business users and leading the specialists who rotate through the pod. You will ensure that each AI workflow reaches production with identity, audit, approval, and evaluation controls in place, and that shared foundations (the semantic layer, the governance and access foundation, and the document extraction service) are reused across workflows.

Time zone: U.S. Pacific Time (PT).

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years as a hands-on architect or tech lead.

• Experience building and shipping LLM-based applications or agents to production, including tool calling, evaluation sets, and guardrails.

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure: App Service or Container Apps, Functions, Azure OpenAI or AI Foundry, storage, and networking.

• Solid skills in Python or TypeScript, SQL, and API integration.

• Experience integrating with ERP, WMS, or EDI systems.

• Security-by-design approach: least privilege, separate agent identities, and audit trails.

• Comfort working directly with client engineers and business users in their environment.

• Excellent English communication skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to executives.

• Leadership mindset with mentoring experience.

• Pragmatic approach to balancing reuse and long-term architecture with monthly delivery.

• Availability during Pacific business hours.

• Will be a plus

• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Experience with Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, or similar frameworks.

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics GP.

• Experience with EDI / SPS Commerce.

• Experience with Document AI.

• Experience with UI automation.

Responsibilities

• Produce the Month 1 architecture and control baseline, designed so that later workflows can reuse it.

• Lead delivery of every capability increment to the Definition of Done: deployed through the pipeline, passing evaluation thresholds, with controls evidenced, documented, and demonstrated.

• Design the semantic layer of governed views over Dynamics GP, Latitude WMS, Pepper, SPS Commerce, Samsara, DocLink, and Adaptive.

• Design the governance and access foundation: MCP tool contracts, action-level audit logging, and the evaluation harness.

• Keep every action that changes a record in GP or a partner system behind human approval.

• Record technical decisions as architecture decision records (ADRs).

• Run bi-weekly show-and-tells of working software.

• Lead, unblock, and review the work of bench specialists.

• We offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.

• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.

• Comprehensive private medical insurance.

• Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.

• Flexibility in workspace, either remote, our welcoming office or local coworking.

• Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.

• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, other activities.

• 15 vacation days, 10 national holidays, 10 sick leaves.

• Personalized learning program tailored to your interests and skill development.

• Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.

• Fun corporate online/offline celebrations and activities.

• Well-established remote culture.

• Awesome team, friendly and supportive community!

• Why join Svitla

• Svitla Systems is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S. and operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients - from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our success is built on partnership. By integrating seamlessly with clients' teams, we create lasting collaborations that drive real results. We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote culture, individual approach to professional and personal growth.

• Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to wellbeing of our partners, personnel, and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow - and living it.

• Join us!