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The role will identify, analyze, and support business drivers, technology strategies, and current technology environments to recommend solutions to improve, develop, and align engineering to the specific domain. The position will lead, consult or oversee multiple highly complex projects/programs/domains that have significant impacts and require in-depth technical knowledge across multiple specific architecture disciplines such as technology, solution, business, or information/data.Position follows our hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in Grand Rapids MI corporate office, Thursday-Friday remote.
What You'll Be Doing:
- You will architect, design, and review implementation details for a specific domain within the company’s AI solutions.
- Designs, codes, and implements new industry leading design patterns in domain specific code bases, to create the convention/technique/practice that teams are accountable to follow.
- Mentors specific domain engineering teams on principles and best practices.
- Provides engineering strategy to ensure code modernization and industry standard patterns for specific domain.
- Builds proof of concepts (POCs) that are production ready.
- Provides guidance to development teams within domain requirements.
- Leads non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability related to the specific domain.
- Promotes the implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers.
- Defines and evolves reference architectures for AI & Automation workloads on the Microsoft Azure stack — including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale, agentic and multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool integration, and Microsoft Copilot Studio — ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture and security standards.
- Guides LLMOps and responsible AI practices across domains — including evaluation harnesses, guardrails and content safety, model routing and fallback, PTU/quota capacity planning, and cost optimization — and leads architectural reviews of AI/GenAI solutions prior to production deployment.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s (or comparable combination of education and related experience).
- 5+ years of progressive responsibility in an IT environment with demonstrated technical knowledge which provides the necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities.
- Advanced knowledge of software development best practices.
- Experience in the retail industry or in a production/service environment is preferred.
- Exposure to a wide variety of software project management methodologies and frameworks with a deep understanding of agile development methodologies.
- Successfully developed and implemented applications in new computing architecture environments using new and emerging technologies.
- Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
- Technical team leadership experience.
- Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred.
- Experience with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.
- Experience with structured design, development and implementation of new and established computing architectures.
- Enterprise-scale experience architecting AI or GenAI solutions on the Microsoft Azure stack (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AKS, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps), including RAG, agentic and multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLM evaluation frameworks, is preferred.
- Working knowledge of LLMOps, responsible AI governance (model risk, content safety, data privacy), and cost/capacity management (PTUs, quotas, model routing) for production AI platforms is preferred.
- Experience guiding teams through AI-assisted and spec-driven development, context/prompt engineering standards, and evaluating GenAI frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen is preferred.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or comparable combination of education and related experience
- 5+ years of progressive responsibility in an IT environment
- Advanced knowledge of software development best practices
- Experience in the retail industry or a production/service environment
- Experience with software project management methodologies and frameworks
- Deep understanding of agile development methodologies
- Experience developing and implementing applications in new computing architecture environments
- Experience solving diverse and complex business problems
- Technical team leadership experience
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework
- Experience with diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments
- Experience designing, developing, and implementing computing architectures
- Enterprise-scale experience architecting AI or GenAI solutions on Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AKS, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, RAG, agentic orchestration, MCP, and LLM evaluation frameworks
- Working knowledge of LLMOps and responsible AI governance
- Knowledge of model risk, content safety, data privacy, PTUs, quotas, model routing, and cost or capacity management
- Experience guiding teams through AI-assisted and spec-driven development
- Experience with context and prompt engineering standards
- Experience evaluating GenAI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
Meijer Insights
What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
