Principal IT Pillar Specialist
McDermott
Principal IT Pillar Specialist
About this role
Job Overview:
The AI Development Manager will lead the development and delivery of Enterprise-grade AI solutions across all functions as needed. This role combines people leadership, technical depth, delivery accountability, and stakeholder influence. The successful candidate will build and develop a high-performing global development team, translate business priorities into a scalable AI product roadmap, and ensure that AI applications, agents, knowledge solutions, and intelligent automation platforms are secure, governed, supportable, and measurable.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Own the AI product roadmap, use-case prioritization, delivery plan, budget, risks, and value realization
- Lead and develop AI developers, Python and .NET developers, architects, and delivery partners
- Partner with business leaders to define outcomes, manage priorities, and communicate progress and decisions
- Provide technical direction for Generative AI, AI agents, RAG, semantic search, and document intelligence solutions
- Establish reusable architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD, ML Ops/LLM Ops, testing, monitoring, and support practices
- Integrate AI solutions with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, ERP, CRM, databases, and enterprise applications. Promote modular design, reusable services, API-first integration, observability, automated testing, and maintainable engineering practices
- Transformation from generic code to refactorable code and vibe code methods (GitHub Copilot, M365 Copilot Studio, Cursor etc
- Ensure compliance with Responsible AI, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, and enterprise architecture standards
- Drive production reliability, adoption, performance, cost optimization, and continuous improvement. Define measurable success criteria and track outcomes such as adoption, cycle-time reduction, quality, reliability, user satisfaction, and realized benefits
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a disciplined approach to continuous learning and experimentation
Essential Qualifications and Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline
10+ years in application development, cloud, data, or AI, including 4+ years leading technical teams/ AI Development function/ delivery functions
Proven delivery of enterprise Generative AI, AI agent, RAG, search, or intelligent document solutions from concept to production.
Experience managing stakeholders, resources, partners, dependencies, risks, and measurable delivery outcomes
Competent in Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Agent Service, prompt engineering, and RAG architecture
Adept in Advanced Python; working knowledge of .NET / ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, Azure Functions, App Services, Storage, and Azure SQL
Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, API integration, monitoring, and secure development practices
People leadership, product and portfolio management, Agile delivery, vendor management, and executive communication
Exposure to ITIL Principles and Change management process
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This Principal IT Pillar Specialist position at McDermott was posted on Sep 18, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Principal IT Pillar Specialist
McDermott
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