Senior AI Agent Engineer - SDLC Optimization

What Working at Hexaware offers:

Hexaware is a dynamic and innovative IT organization committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients worldwide. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where every team member is valued and empowered to succeed.

Hexaware provides access to a vast array of tools that enhance, revolutionize, and advance professional profile. We complete the circle with excellent growth opportunities, chances to collaborate with highly visible customers, chances to work alongside bright brains, and the perfect work-life balance.

With an ever-expanding portfolio of capabilities, we delve deep into and identify the source of our motivation. Although technology is at the core of our solutions, it is still the people and their passion that fuel Hexaware s commitment towards creating smiles.

At Hexaware we encourage to challenge oneself to achieve full potential and propel growth. We trust and empower to disrupt the status quo and innovate for a better future. We encourage an open and inspiring culture that fosters learning and brings talented, passionate, and caring people together.

We are always interested in, and want to support, the professional and personal you. We offer a wide array of programs to help expand skills and supercharge careers. We help discover passion the driving force that makes one smile and innovate, create, and make a difference every day.

The Hexaware Advantage: Your Workplace Benefits

• Excellent Health benefits with low-cost employee premium.
• Wide range of voluntary benefits such as Legal, Identity theft and Critical Care Coverage
• Unlimited training and upskilling opportunities through Udemy and Hexavarsity

Who we are?

At Hexaware Technologies, we are a leading global IT Services company, dedicated to driving digital transformation and innovation for businesses around the world. Founded in 1990, Hexaware has grown into a global trusted partner for enterprises, offering comprehensive AI empowered services including IT Consulting, Application Development, Infrastructure and Cloud Management and Business Process services.

At Hexaware we are a community of creative, diverse, and open-minded Hexawarians creating smiles through the power of great people and technology.

We pride ourselves on our people-centric culture and commitment to sustainability. Our diverse team of over 30,000 professionals across 30 countries is driven by a shared passion for innovation and excellence. We foster a collaborative environment where creativity and continuous learning are encouraged, enabling our employees to thrive and grow.

What would you do?

Job Title: Senior AI Agent Engineer - SDLC Optimization

Location: Mclean, VA (5 days onsite work from office)

Job Summary: We are seeking a forward-thinking AI SDLC Engineer to transform our development processes from linear automation to an agentic, multi-agent workflow. The ideal candidate will design, build, and deploy specialized AI subagents (e.g., using frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, or Claude Code) that collaborate to create production-grade software. You will enable AI to handle specialized tasks architecture planning, frontend/backend development, debugging, and security reviews while maintaining context isolation.

Responsibilities:

• Subagent Architecture & Creation: Design and implement task-specific AI subagents (e.g., "Code Reviewer," "SQL Expert," "Frontend Builder") with dedicated system prompts, tool access, and context boundaries.
• Orchestration & Workflow Automation: Build orchestration logic to manage the lifecycle of subagents (initialization, delegation, execution, and cleanup) using agentic frameworks.
• AI-Driven SDLC Integration: Implement agentic workflows across the entire SDLC, from requirements gathering and architecture design to automated testing, code review, and deployment.
• Context & Memory Management: Optimize AI performance by isolating noisy, long-running tasks into subagents, ensuring the main agent remains efficient and context-aware.
• Tooling & Integration: Integrate AI agents with internal development tools, including Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow and CI/CD pipelines.
• Performance Evaluation: Monitor, evaluate, and refine agentic workflows to improve code quality, reduce toil, and accelerate release cycles.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Agentic AI: Proven experience designing and creating AI agents and subagents, specifically using frameworks such as LangChain, or custom agent harnesses (e.g., Claude Code).
• Software Development Background: Strong background in software engineering (Python/FastAPI preferred) with a deep understanding of CI/CD, Git, and cloud platforms (AWS).
• LLM Proficiency: Extensive experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering techniques for task-specific agent behavior.
• Systems Design: Ability to decompose complex software tasks into smaller, manageable, and parallelizable sub-tasks
• Experience with Claude Code and creating custom subagent markdown/YAML definitions.
• Knowledge of AI safety protocols and adversarial testing.
• Experience with vector databases for agent memory management.

What you ll get from us:

Insert employee benefits here e.g.:

• Competitive Salary
• Company Pension Scheme
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Flexible Work Hours and Hybrid Work Options
• XX days paid annual holidays + public holidays.
• Professional Development and Training Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
• Company Events and Team-Building Activities

Equal Opportunities Employer:

Hexaware Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Hexaware are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate based on race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, parental status, gender reassignment, or any other status protected by law. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.