AI Projects Lead

About Altivate:
Altivate is a digital transformation enabler on a mission to help businesses find smarter and more innovative ways of doing business. With headquarters located in Saudi Arabia along with 3 regional offices in Egypt, India, and Jordan, we combine different knowledge and technologies to offer our clients tailored solutions and services to address their unique needs.
Altivate provides end-to-end services and solutions based on industry best practices. Our technology competencies are vast and unique; they include SAP, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft PowerBI, Google Cloud Platform, Teradata, Tableau, MicroStrategy, etc.
We work with our clients on unravelling new business opportunities presented by new technologies. We help our clients become more resilient, sustainable, and profitable, efficiently improving their performance and bottom line.
Altivate is proud: SAP Gold Partner, SAP Certified Partner Center of Expertise, AWS Select Partner, Azure Partner and GCP Partner.
We're also a proud recent holder of SAP MEA North's Delivery Excellence award for 2022.
About the role:
We're building an AI practice from scratch, shipping AI agents that connect to enterprise systems like SAP and help businesses automate complex workflows through conversation. We need someone to own this end-to-end: lead the technical direction, manage a small dev team, ship products, and interface directly with the CEO and our AI Strategy Advisor.
This is a builder-leader role. You'll write code, architect systems, AND run the team. If you want a pure management position where you attend meetings and review Jira boards, this isn't it.
What You'll Own:
Technical direction for all AI agent products (architecture, stack decisions, quality)
Delivery of AI agents from prototype to production.
A team of 2 mid-level developers: mentoring, code review, sprint priorities, unblocking
Integration layer between AI (LLMs, agent frameworks) and enterprise systems (SAP RFC/BAPI, MCP, Dynamics, Oracle)
Product conversations with the CEO, translating business needs into technical plans
Development culture: AI-first workflows, Claude Code as default, fast iteration, shipping over perfection
What We Need:
5+ years of software development experience with at least 1–2 years leading a small team or project
Strong backend: .NET/C#, Python, or TypeScript, you can build and ship, not just delegate
Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI), you've built something real with them, not just experimented
Daily user of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, SpecKit), this is how we work
Experience designing and consuming APIs and integrations (REST, RFC, webhooks)
SQL databases. can write complex queries, understands optimization
Cloud Platform Experience (Azure Strongly Preferred)
Can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders, the CEO is your main counterpart
Strong Advantages:
SAP experience (FI/CO module, BAPIs, RFC, OData), this is a major differentiator
Experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI)
MCP (Model Context Protocol) knowledge
Has shipped a product or feature to real end users (not just internal tools)
DevOps/CI/CD ownership
What You Get:
Full ownership of a new AI practice, you shape it, you build it, you run it
Direct line to the CEO, no middle management layers
Small team that ships fast, no bureaucracy
Competitive salary based on experience
Real impact: your work goes to customers, not into a backlog.