Senior AI Developer

Senior AI Developer

Premier Research is looking for a Senior AI Developer to join our IT & Corporate Administration team. You will help biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma companies transform life-changing ideas and breakthrough science into new medicines, devices, and diagnostics. What we do is profoundly connected to saving and improving lives, and we recognize our team members are the most valuable asset in delivering success.

We are here to help you grow, to give you the skills and opportunities to excel at work with the flexibility and balance your life requires. Your ideas influence the way we work, and your voice matters here. As an essential part of our team, you help us deliver the medical innovation that patients are desperate for. Join us and build your future here.

The Senior AI Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-grade AI solutions across Premier's technology ecosystem. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, application end users, and global IT teams to build AI-powered integrations, resolve day-to-day system issues, lead implementation and upgrade projects, and provide best-practice guidance on the use of AI tools including Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, and Azure AI Foundry, Anthropic Claude, and Microsoft Copilot.

What you will be doing:

The Senior AI Developer will provide technical leadership, development, and administration of Premier's AI platforms and enterprise applications, including:

• Lead AI solution design and orchestration using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Claude Workflows, and Azure AI Foundry, Claude on Foundry / Claude Skills, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Develop, test, and optimize AI prompts, workflows, and pipelines for enterprise use cases.
• Build and maintain integrations between AI platforms and corporate applications using REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven architectures, and secure connectors.
• Implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) using Azure AI Search, vector databases, and embedding pipelines.
• Deploy and manage custom MCP servers and agent UIs via Azure Container Apps.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, TypeScript, PowerShell, and other languages.
• Administer and configure Azure AI Foundry, including:
• Prompt Flow
• Model catalog (Azure OpenAI, Claude, Phi)
• Safety evaluations
• Deployment endpoints
• Monitoring and observability
• Agent Service configuration
• Resolve AI-related issues through Premier's ticketing system while meeting SLAs.
• Lead AI platform upgrades, patches, and new feature rollouts with documented test cases and validation controls.
• Develop and maintain documentation for AI workflows, integrations, and business processes.
• Create knowledge base articles for Premier's IT Service Management platform.
• Configure security models for AI applications, ensuring least-privilege access and compliance with Responsible AI standards.
• Lead AI projects while keeping project team members, stakeholders, vendors, and IT leadership informed of issues and overall status.

What we are searching for:

• Bachelor's degree and 4–6 years of IT experience, or 6–8 years equivalent experience, supporting enterprise applications/AI systems.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Claude Workflows, and Azure AI Foundry. Claude on Foundry / Claude Skills, Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Strong understanding of LLM architecture, prompt engineering, AI safety, and model evaluation.
• Experience with Azure Container Apps for deploying custom MCP servers and agent front-ends.
• Experience with AI and integrating enterprise applications such as Workday, Salesforce, Cornerstone, or similar systems.
• Experience with Workday integrations (EIB, Core Connector, RaaS, Studio) is a plus.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, SQL, .NET, JavaScript, and automation scripting is a plus.
• Experience with integration platforms such as Azure Integration Services, WSO2, or similar.
• Strong understanding of web services, APIs, XML, JSON, and XSLT.
• Fluent verbal and written English.
• Excellent team player; collaborative and consensus-driven.
• Ability to multitask and work effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Strong communication, negotiation, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Strong desire to learn new skills and expand technical experience.
• Accountable, dependable, and committed to delivering high-quality results.
• Customer-service-focused approach to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.