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
• Up-to-date LLM APIs and frameworks
• Agentic AI / orchestration
• Pr