Lead Developer - AI

We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

Builders FirstSource (BFS) is executing Project Elevate, a multi-year business transformation that is standardizing core operations on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition and connected enterprise applications. We are seeking a hands-on Lead AI developer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions that drive productivity, automation, and business value. This role will lead the development of intelligent assistants, AI-powered search and knowledge platforms, document intelligence solutions, and business process automation using modern AI technologies and cloud-native architectures. This role partners with business analysts, functional leads, architects, security, Basis, testing teams, and systems-integration partners to translate business requirements into clean-core, scalable solutions across SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and build AI solutions using Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Develop enterprise copilots, intelligent assistants, and knowledge discovery solutions.
• Rapidly prototype new AI capabilities and evolve successful proofs of concept into scalable enterprise solutions.
• Architect and deploy cloud-native applications using Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), CI/CD, and Azure cloud services.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentoring to engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot and optimize application, AI, database, and infrastructure performance.
• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers and development partners while remaining accountable for individual delivery; perform hands-on coding for complex, high-risk, or business-critical work.
• Communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to project leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8-10 years of software engineering, application development, or solution architecture experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/Generative AI solutions in production environments.
• Required Technical Skills:
• Programming & Architecture
• Strong expertise in Python development.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience with React / Next JS TypeScript Development.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and design patterns.
• Agentic AI & Generative AI
• Agentic AI frameworks and orchestration, LLM Evaluation and Optimization, AI Workflow Orchestration, Multi-Agent Systems.
• RAG & Enterprise Search, Vector Databases and Embeddings, Semantic Search, Hybrid Search Strategies.
• Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval, Search Relevance and Retrieval Optimization.
• Azure AI Ecosystem
• Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI Service /Azure AI Search /Azure Document Intelligence /Azure Storage /Azure Functions /Azure App Services/ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Databases & Data Management
• Strong SQL development skills and Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server.
• Database design and data modeling, Query optimization and performance tuning.
• Database troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues involving databases, APIs, applications, and infrastructure.
• AI Frameworks
• Experience with one or more of the following: LangGraph, LangChain, …