This is a senior engineering role for someone who has been here before. The Lead Software Engineer, HR Technology is the deepest technical practitioner on the team — the person who sets the bar for what valuable engineering looks like and raises it through the quality of their own work.
The role is centered on Azure Databricks as MSCI HR Technology's core application and intelligence platform. You will design and build production-grade applications, deploy AI agents, and architect the patterns the rest of the team builds from. You will not manage people. You will influence them by being the engineer others want to work like.
This is a rare chance to own the technical direction of a platform that is genuinely early in its trajectory. The HR Data Platform went live in 2025. The agentic layer is being built now. The person in this role will shape how it is done.
Your Key Responsibilities
Build on Databricks, end to end
Design and deliver production applications on Azure Databricks — Streamlit apps, Databricks Apps,
agent workflows — from architecture through deployment
Develop and ship AI agents using Databricks-native tooling including Mosaic AI Agent Framework, vector search, and LLM integrations
Architect and implement gold layer data marts and analytic models within a Unity Catalog medallion workplace
Integrate enterprise systems — Workday, iCIMS, ServiceNow — into Databricks-based workflows via REST APIs and MCP
Own the full development lifecycle on the team's highest-complexity initiatives
Lead on agentic AI
Design and implement agentic HR solutions: conversational agents, approval workflow automation, intelligent data retrieval
Integrate LLM APIs — including Anthropic Claude — into production applications through robust, scalable patterns
Build and refine multi-step agent pipelines with tool use, structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop controls
Evaluate and bring in emerging Databricks AI capabilities as the