The Senior FDE Lead will be the embedded client-facing technical builder who converts Model Office and design decisions rapidly into working configurations, AI workflows, prototypes and demonstrations.
This person needs the unusual combination of software/AI engineering ability, solution architecture, rapid prototyping and client presence.
The FDE Lead should be comfortable sitting in a client design session, understanding a requirement, translating it into a technical approach, building or configuring it rapidly, testing it with users, learning from the results and iterating in near-real time.
This is emphatically not a traditional project manager or solution architect who hands requirements to an offshore development team. The person must be able to build.
Key Responsibilities
- Embed directly with Centene functional, clinical and technology teams.
- Translate Model Office decisions into working sandbox configurations and prototypes.
- Develop and configure AI-enabled workflows and agents.
- Write code where required to integrate, prototype or extend platform capabilities.
- Rapidly prototype solutions during design cycles.
- Test AI outputs and workflow behavior against expected outcomes.
- Build evaluation approaches and use results to improve prompts, models, agents and workflow logic.
- Work with business/clinical users to gather feedback and iterate rapidly.
- Troubleshoot issues across configuration, APIs, data, AI behavior and workflow orchestration.
- Maintain and prioritize the configuration/FDE backlog.
- Lead other FDEs and potentially coach Nexus Fellows.
- Partner with core Product and Engineering teams when prototype/configuration work needs to become hardened product functionality.
- Demonstrate working functionality directly to client stakeholders.
Technical Profile Candidates should have meaningful hands-on experience with several of the following:
- Python
- Modern LLM APIs and frameworks
- Agentic AI / orchestration
- Prompt and context engineering
- AI evaluation/testing
- APIs and integration
- JSON / data transformation
- SQL and data analysis
- Cloud environments
- Rapid prototyping
- Workflow/configuration platforms
- Git and modern software-development practices
Healthcare experience is helpful but technical capability and FDE mentality are more significant for this role.