AI Practice & Innovation Lead

Role Overview

Intertec Systems is seeking a visionary and execution-focused AI Practice Lead to lead our AI initiatives across all lines of business including Digital Managed Services Cloud EAM Cybersecurity and Microsoft solutions(link removed)>

This role will own the charter to define build and scale innovative AI use cases leveraging Machine Learning (ML) Computer Vision Agentic AI and AI Agents for:

• Client solutions (presales PoCs proposals)
• Internal business transformation
• Product roadmap acceleration

This individual will lead the AI Center of Excellence (CoE) and work closely with Business Units Technology Teams and Clients.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for AI adoption at Intertec across functions
• Lead the AI CoE and drive cross-functional collaboration with presales delivery product and marketing teams
• Evaluate and prioritize AI use cases based on business impact and feasibility

Solution Development & Presales

• Partner with sales and account teams to ideate and propose AI solutions in RFPs and client engagements
• Build PoCs reference architectures and solution accelerators using ML Computer Vision NLP and Generative AI
• Translate business problems into AI opportunities across verticals like Government Healthcare Utilities BFSI and Real Estate

Use Case Design & Development

• Identify AI opportunities within Intertecs products and client platforms (e.g. service desk automation asset intelligence anomaly detection fraud detection)
• Drive implementation of Agentic AI (LLM-based task automation) multi-agent frameworks (e.g. CrewAI LangGraph) and intelligent workflows
• Leverage cloud-native AI tools (Azure AI AWS Sagemaker Google Vertex AI)

Innovation & R&D

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies LLMs vector databases and open-source models
• Pilot AI use cases internally (finance automation talent intelligence project risk prediction etc.)
• Keep the organization at the forefront of GenAI multi-modal AI and enterprise AI trends

Governance & Enablement

• Define best practices MLOps standards data governance frameworks
• Train and upskill teams in AI tooling and architecture
• Ensure responsible AI practices ethical design and regulatory compliance

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills

• 10 years in technology or consulting with 4 years in AI/ML leadership
• Strong experience in AI presales and solution architecture (client-facing)
• Hands-on proficiency in:
• ML frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn)
• LLMs (OpenAI Mistral Claude open-source transformers)
• Computer Vision (YOLO OpenCV segmentation models)
• Agentic AI tools (LangChain CrewAI AutoGen RAG LlamaIndex)
• Proven success building AI/ML PoCs solutions or products from scratch
• Familiar with vector databases RAG architecture prompt engineering and LLM orchestration
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure requirements for AI workloads including:
• GPU types and capacity planning (e.g. A100 H100 T4)
• AI-optimized storage and high-throughput systems
• Deployment environments (Docker Kubernetes VM instances)
• Cost/performance analysis across Azure AWS GCP
• MLOps tools and scalable model deployment architectures

Preferred/Bonus

• Experience with enterprise platforms (Microsoft Oracle ServiceNow Salesforce) and integrating AI
• Knowledge of MLOps and deployment pipelines (MLflow Kubeflow Azure ML Sagemaker)
• Experience leading AI practices in mid-sized or regional IT services companies
• Exposure to AI compliance and Responsible AI frameworks

Tools & Technologies

ML & CV: PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn OpenCV YOLO Detectron2

LLMs & Agents: OpenAI Anthropic LangChain CrewAI LlamaIndex Haystack

Deployment: Azure AI AWS Sagemaker Vertex AI Docker Kubernetes

Data & Ops: MLflow Airflow Hugging Face Weights & Biases

Vector DBs: FAISS Pinecone Chroma Qdrant

What Youll Influence

• Shape the AI GTM strategy for Intertec
• Elevate client conversations from solutioning to innovation
• Help Intertec become an AI-first systems integrator