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USAA

AI-DLC Engineering Lead

USAA

. Lead the engineering discipline and provide hands-on technical direction for association-wide AI-DLC adoption .

Posted 9/29/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Texas • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in AI-driven software engineering, cloud architecture, and DevSecOps, with a strong focus on leading cross-functional teams and implementing secure, scalable platforms. Proven ability to translate complex transformation needs into actionable technical strategies and measurable outcomes.

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AI-Driven Software EngineeringCloud ArchitectureDevSecOpsTechnical LeadershipCross-Functional Collaboration

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Hard Skills
PythonSoftware Development LifecycleInfrastructure as CodeAutomated TestingObservabilityIncident ResponseAI CodingSpecification-Driven DevelopmentReusable PatternsSecurity Validation
Soft Skills
Technical CommunicationMentoringInfluencing Senior LeadersBusiness AcumenProblem Solving
Tools & Technologies
GitHub CopilotAmazon Q DeveloperAmazon BedrockLangChainGitHubGitLabJiraConfluenceServiceNowIBM Watsonx.Governance
Industry Keywords
AI-DLCEngineering StandardsProduction-ReadinessRisk ManagementChange ManagementAgent ToolsAPI ManagementHuman-in-the-Loop ControlsQuality GatesEnterprise Transformation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsPythonSDLCServiceNow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the engineering discipline and provide hands-on technical direction for association-wide AI-DLC adoption
  • Translate AI-DLC transformation needs into prioritized engineering requirements and guide the AI Platform engineering team
  • Design AI-driven workflows across requirements, architecture, planning, implementation, testing, security validation, release authorization, deployment, and production feedback
  • Establish human decision gates, engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and production-readiness expectations
  • Build reference implementations and integrate AI-DLC with repositories, development environments, CI/CD pipelines, testing, security, change, release, and monitoring capabilities
  • Optimize platform capabilities through reusable services, components, APIs, agent tools, templates, instructions, evaluation frameworks, and integration patterns
  • Partner with Lines of Business, Association Functions, IT Governance, API Management, security, risk, architecture, and engineering teams
  • Embed policies, standards, controls, approvals, evidence collection, and exception handling into AI-driven workflows
  • Apply AWS, software engineering, cloud, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering expertise
  • Define secure patterns for agent context, tools, APIs, knowledge, identity, permissions, execution environments, failure handling, and output validation
  • Develop automated evaluations and quality gates for AI-generated requirements, designs, code, tests, security findings, and release artifacts
  • Use implementation feedback and production insights to reduce manual effort, rework, duplication, and inconsistent practices
  • Define measures for adoption, engineering capacity, cycle time, quality, automation, control effectiveness, developer experience, and business outcomes
  • Guide technical decisions involving architecture, dependencies, risks, governance, integrations, platform constraints, and capability sequencing
  • Lead cross-functional engineering efforts, mentor engineers, and advise the executive accountable for AI-DLC
  • Ensure risks associated with business activities are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled according to risk and compliance policies

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field; OR four years of relevant education and/or experience
  • Eight years of broad software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, developer productivity, or related technology experience
  • Three years of demonstrated technical leadership for complex, cross-functional, portfolio-level, or enterprise engineering initiatives
  • Six years of experience delivering technology solutions across multiple phases of the software development lifecycle
  • Experience leading an enterprise transformation involving AI-assisted development, agentic software engineering, AI-native development, or AI-driven software delivery
  • Experience implementing AI across multiple SDLC phases
  • Extensive experience designing and implementing secure, resilient, scalable, observable, and maintainable software platforms or distributed systems
  • Ability to establish technical direction, reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable patterns, platform capabilities, and production-readiness practices
  • Advanced software engineering experience in Python or another modern programming language
  • Advanced experience with public cloud architecture, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and Site Reliability Engineering
  • Experience integrating new engineering capabilities into established software development processes, delivery pipelines, security controls, and operational practices
  • Ability to lead architecture, code, design, security, control, and implementation reviews and resolve complex cross-system technical issues
  • Ability to translate ambiguous transformation needs into technical strategy, prioritized requirements, solution architectures, implementation roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
  • Experience influencing senior leaders and communicating complex technical decisions, risks, dependencies, sequencing considerations, and recommendations across organizational boundaries
  • Strong business acumen in technology investment, engineering productivity, operational management, cost optimization, risk management, and organizational change
  • Experience mentoring experienced engineers and leading technical work across teams without relying exclusively on direct reporting authority
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding and software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, Claude Code, or comparable enterprise development assistants
  • Experience with specification-driven development, structured requirements, repository-based context engineering, reusable agent instructions, coding standards, and machine-readable engineering artifacts
  • Experience creating or integrating specialized coding agents, custom agents, agent skills, agent tools, reusable prompts, repository instructions, hooks, and workflow steering rules
  • Experience integrating AI agents with repositories, issues, pull requests, code review, automated testing, security scanning, build pipelines, deployment pipelines, and release controls
  • Experience with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, or comparable services
  • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, AWS Strands Agents, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or comparable frameworks
  • Experience implementing Model Context Protocol, secure agent tools, API-based integrations, agent identity, delegated authorization, least-privilege access, or sandboxed execution
  • Experience designing human-in-the-loop controls, automated evaluations, release thresholds, audit trails, traceability, and evidence collection
  • Experience integrating AI-enabled delivery with GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Rovo, ServiceNow, API management platforms, knowledge repositories, workflow engines, and developer portals
  • Experience with IBM watsonx.governance or comparable AI governance capabilities
  • Experience defining measures for AI-DLC adoption and performance
  • Experience conducting forward-deployed or embedded engineering engagements
  • Experience building reusable services, APIs, templates, SDKs, platform components, and implementation accelerators
  • Experience leading technical change across a federated enterprise
  • Demonstrated ability to remain hands-on while influencing engineering teams, architects, governance partners, product leaders, and senior executives
  • Must not require visa sponsorship or immigration support now or in the future

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
  • 401(k)
  • Pension
  • Life insurance
  • Parental benefits
  • Adoption assistance
  • Paid time off program
  • Paid holidays
  • 16 paid volunteer hours
  • Various wellness programs
  • Career path planning
  • Continuing education
  • Pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance, at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors
  • Remote or hybrid flexibility may be available for active-duty military spouses, consistent with applicable policy and business needs