Application Development Group Manager - Senior Vice President

The Applications Development Group Manager (SVP) will serve as a senior engineering leader and technical authority responsible for driving the architecture, delivery, and scaling of enterprise-grade software platforms with a core focus on Generative AI and Agentic AI systems. The ideal candidate blends 10+ years of robust full-stack and distributed backend engineering leadership with deep hands-on expertise in frontier AI architectures, multi-agent frameworks, LLMOps, and enterprise AI governance.

• Core Software Engineering & Architecture Leadership

Hands-on Engineering Leadership

Extensive track record in designing, architecting, and delivering large-scale, high-throughput enterprise software applications.

Backend & Enterprise Stack

Deep mastery of Java/J2EE enterprise ecosystem, multithreading, concurrency patterns, memory management, and asynchronous event-driven architectures.

Modern Web & API Engineering

Proven experience in modern web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, React.js/modern JavaScript frameworks) and RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and API governance.

Engineering Fundamentals

Strong command of Object-Oriented Design (OOPS/SOLID), Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms, and distributed computing principles.

2. Generative AI, Foundation Models & Context Engineering

Foundation Models & LLM Fundamentals

Deep theoretical and practical understanding of foundation models, Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, tokenization mechanics, attention mechanisms, and context-window optimization.

Advanced Context Engineering

Hands-on mastery of production context management, including dynamic context layering, prompt chaining, context compression, memory pruning/offloading, and session-state persistence to maximize token efficiency, provenance, and output reliability.

Advanced Prompt Engineering

Expertise in few-shot prompting, directional stimulus prompting, programmatic prompt pipelines, and automated prompt optimization frameworks.

3. Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Orchestration & Interoperability

Multi-Agent System Architecture

Proven experience architecting and deploying production-grade agentic workflows using frameworks such as Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangGraph or OpenAI Agents SDK.

Orchestration Patterns

Practical implementation of multi-agent patterns, including hierarchical supervisor/worker topologies, sequential planning, dynamic routing, reflection loops, and peer-to-peer collaboration.

Agent Harness Engineering & Tooling

Strong grasp of agent harness mechanics, execution boundaries, sandboxing, feedback loops, human-in-the-loop (HITL) integration, and deterministic tool execution.

Interoperability Protocols

Expertise in emerging agent communication and integration protocols, specifically:

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) for standardized tool, data, and service integration.
• Agent2Agent (A2A) protocols for inter-agent communication and task delegation across distributed systems.

4. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) & Knowledge Graphs

Advanced RAG Architectures

Deep hands-on experience designing production RAG pipelines utilizing hybrid search, re-ranking models, parent-document/hierarchical chunking, multi-vector representations, and self-corrective RAG mechanisms.

Vector Databases & Search Engines

Proficiency with enterprise vector storage solutions

5. LLMOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Containerization & Orchestration

Production mastery of Docker containerization and Kubernetes (OpenShift/EKS/GKE) cluster management, auto-scaling, and GPU/accelerator allocation.

DevOps & LLMOps Pipelines

Deep knowledge of CI/CD automation, model registry workflows, automated regression testing, versioning (Git, DVC), continuous integration pipelines for prompts/models.

Modern Python Web Frameworks

Strong proficiency in Python with direct development experience in modern asynchronous frameworks (FastAPI, AsyncIO) and high-performance data ingestion pipelines

Recommended Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in applications development
• Experience in management
• Experience managing global technology teams
• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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