Senior Director, Agentic Engineering
AI summary of the role
Executive leader responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise AI agents and agentic workflows at Truist.
No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.
What you’ll do
- Own the agentic engineering function — providing executive leadership, organizational design, technical standards, and delivery accountability across all agentic engineering teams and initiatives.
- Define and enforce the Forge agentic architecture — including patterns for single-agent and multi-agent systems, prompt orchestration, tool-calling, memory and session management, RAG, human-in-the-loop controls, evaluation, observability, and governed deployment.
- Drive delivery execution across agentic engineering — managing sprint cadences, resolving complex technical and delivery blockers, enforcing quality and governance standards, and ensuring the team ships production-ready AI agents on committed timelines.
- Build and develop a world-class agentic engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, career development, and technical culture investment.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Engineering or a related discipline.
- 20+ years of experience in financial services, government, large consulting firms, or equivalent, with a focus on information security risk management.
- 15+ years prior management experience with a track record of team development and process improvements.
- 15+ years of experience in leading issue management and resolution of financial regulatory and internal risk partner findings.
Technologies
AI agent systems · multi-agent orchestration · prompt engineering · RAG · tool integration · Microsoft Copilot Studio · Azure AI Foundry · Amazon Bedrock AgentCore · Google Vertex AI Agent Engine · LLM-powered application development
About Truist Bank
Runs consumer, small-business, commercial, investment-banking, wealth, payments, mortgage, and specialized-lending services across high-growth U.S. markets.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
building, and operating the enterprise AI agents and agentic workflows that define the agentic value proposition to Truist. This role owns the agentic engineering organization, architecture standards, delivery culture, and operational discipline required to ship enterprise-grade AI agents at scale. The Head of Agentic Engineering is a builder-leader with deep expertise in AI agent systems, multi-agent orchestration, prompt architecture, RAG, tool integration, memory, evaluation, and governed deployment — combined with the organizational leadership capability to build and scale a world-class agentic engineering team inside a regulated financial institution. Daily work includes leading the agentic engineering team, setting architecture and delivery standards, managing complex cross-functional delivery, partnering with product and security leadership, driving hiring and capability
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