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# Sr. AI Delivery & Operations Engineer

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/adcf874901565114

Vizient posts a senior FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Edina, MN and 2 more, at $102,400–$179,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise AI applications, agentic workflows, RAG solutions, and model-powered APIs. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Vizient](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vizient)

First seen Sep 3, 2026 · open on Workday as of Nov 8, 2026

**$102,400–$179,000** Edina, MN +2 Full-time

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise AI applications, agentic workflows, RAG solutions, and model-powered APIs.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$102K–$179K Below the median

Midpoint $141K · median $190K

This job $102K to $179K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds for teams inside the company

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Internal teams

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Technical lead

### What they ask for

Experience

- **5+ years** professional software engineering

Background

- **Software engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in Edina, MN · Irving, TX · +1 more. Could you work in one of these?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: Edina, MN · Irving, TX · Chicago, IL

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Vizient

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Summary:
In this role, you will serve as the technical anchor for a focused AI delivery squad, leading the end-to-end engineering, deployment, and operational support of enterprise AI solutions. You will design, build, and support AI-powered applications, intelligent automation solutions, agentic workflows, and reusable AI engineering capabilities that accelerate Vizient's AI Factory strategy.

Working closely with software engineers, AI architects, product leaders, and business stakeholders, you will establish engineering standards, delivery patterns, and operational best practices that enable secure, scalable, and reliable AI solutions across the enterprise. This role combines hands-on software engineering, AI application development, AI operations, and platform engineering within a governance-first healthcare environment.

### Responsibilities

- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise AI applications, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, and model-powered APIs throughout the full AI delivery lifecycle.
- Serve as the primary technical contributor for an AI delivery squad, providing technical leadership while driving high-quality, scalable, and maintainable AI solutions.
- Build and enhance reusable AI Factory capabilities, including shared services, engineering frameworks, implementation patterns, and platform components that accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
- Develop and maintain AI quality engineering capabilities, including automated testing, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, structured outputs, drift detection, failure analysis, and continuous performance optimization.
- Support AI Operations (AIOps) and LLMOps through implementation of observability, telemetry, logging, monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, production support, and operational excellence practices.
- Contribute to deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, release management, infrastructure automation, and operational processes that enable secure and reliable AI solution delivery.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external implementation partners to evaluate technical designs, establish engineering standards, and expand internal AI engineering capabilities through knowledge sharing and mentoring.
- Support synthetic data initiatives and AI solutions operating within regulated healthcare environments by implementing secure, compliant, auditable, and governance-first engineering practices.

### Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong expertise in application architecture, API development, testing, source control, CI/CD, deployment automation, and modern software engineering practices required.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting production AI applications, including post-deployment monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, and operational support required.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building enterprise-grade software solutions using modern development frameworks and engineering best practices required.
- Experience developing AI solutions utilizing large language models (LLMs) and platforms such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or comparable AI technologies required.
- Experience with cloud-native application development, containerization, infrastructure automation, observability platforms, logging, monitoring, and production support within enterprise environments required.
- Knowledge of AI engineering concepts including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic AI, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and AI quality engineering preferred.
- Experience working within regulated environments supporting data governance, privacy, security, and compliance, preferably within healthcare or similarly regulated industries, preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, highly collaborative, and evolving technical environments required.

### Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

**Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities**

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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## About Vizient

Member-owned cooperative that runs the largest US healthcare group-purchasing contract portfolio plus analytics and advisory for hospitals and health systems.

Bootstrapped · 2000–5000 people

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