AI Engineering Operations Lead - 100% Remote

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Title: AI Engineering Operations Lead with Azure, DevOps (ADO)
Location: Princeton, NJ (Remote)

Duration: Long-term

Exp level – 10+ years

Role Overview:
AI Engineering Operations Lead with strong expertise in software delivery operations, Azure DevOps

engineering governance, SDLC processes and AI-enabled workflow automation. This role focuses on

enabling high-performing software engineering teams by owning engineering operational execution

ensuring development-ready artefacts, maintaining engineering systems of record, and leveraging AI

agents to automate administrative activities

The ideal candidate brings a combination of engineering operations experience, Agile delivery knowledge, process optimisation skills, and practical application of AI-driven automation. They serve as the

operational backbone of the Software Development Engineering organization allowing engineers to

focus on architecture development, testing, code reviews and delivering business value

We are seeking an AI Engineering Operations Lead to support software development teams by owning the

engineering operational activities required for efficient and predictable delivery. This role resides within

the Software Development Engineering organization and serves as the operational partner to engineers

technical leads, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Scrum Masters and Agile PMO

The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure that engineering work is accurately represented within

Azure DevOps development-ready artefacts are available for each iteration, engineering metrics and

delivery data are captured and maintained, and administrative activities are automated wherever

possible.

This role does not replace Scrum Masters or Agile PMO responsibilities. Rather, it enables those

functions by ensuring the engineering organization maintains high-quality operational data traceability

backlog hygiene and governance artifacts that support delivery management and stakeholder reporting

A key focus of the role is applying AI agents and automation to modernize engineering operations, reduce

manual effort, improve engineering productivity, and allow software engineers to spend more time

designing, building, testing and delivering software

Key Responsibilities

Own engineering operational execution within the Software Development Engineering organization

Maintain Azure DevOps backlogs, work item structures, workflows, dependencies, traceability and engineering documentation required to support delivery execution.

Ensure MVPs Epics, Features, User Stories, Technical Tasks, Defects and engineering work items are completely synchronised and aligned with SDLC and governance requirements.

Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects and technical leads to ensure requirements specifications, acceptance criteria, dependencies and supporting artifacts are development-ready before each iteration.

Support engineering teams by managing operational activities that would otherwise consume developer capacity

Ensure engineering metrics, delivery data, traceability information and backlog health indicators are accurately captured, maintained and validated within engineering systems of record.

Provide complete and reliable delivery data that enables Agile PMO and leadership teams to perform stakeholder reporting, governance reviews, and portfolio oversight activities.

Coordinate with Scrum Masters and Agile PMO to maintain alignment between engineering execution planning activities and governance requirements.

Manage engineering work item hygiene, documentation quality, dependency tracking, release readiness and audit traceability.

Develop AI-powered agents and automation solutions to reduce manual administration, improve data quality, and streamline engineering workflows.

Leverage AI tools to automate documentation updates, backlog maintenance, traceability management, engineering reporting inputs and governance artifacts

Continuously identify opportunities to eliminate non-value-added engineering activities through workflow simplification and automation.

Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering operations practices while remaining aligned with Agile SDLC compliance and governance standards.

Establish repeatable operational processes that improve backlog quality, development readiness, traceability, engineering productivity and delivery predictability.

Contribute to documentation of engineering standards, operating procedures, governance controls and automation frameworks.

Act as the operational extension of the software engineering organisation, enabling engineers to focus on coding, architecture, testing, code reviews and innovation

Required Experience

10 years of experience in software delivery engineering operations application development

Lifecycle management, technical program management, or related engineering support functions

Deep experience with Azure DevOps, including Boards, Backlogs, Work