Sr Engr Cslt-Tech Strategy

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

In this role as a Sr Engr in the Tech Strategy & Planning team for Enterprise Architecture team, you'll be managing multiple programs designed to help GTS move towards its strategic objectives. You will be a key contributor in planning and building Engineering Excellence deliverables, and ensuring the smooth and successful execution of initiatives by coordinating with cross-functional teams. Your expertise will help us solve complex problems and find unique solutions to optimize the development landscape of our organization. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Technology Road-mapping: Develop and maintain a technology roadmap that aligns with the organization's strategic goals and evolving industry trends.

• Engaging with Technology, Business stakeholders and Senior Leadership to drive product roadmap, define the priorities and deliver products with best quality for a high scale use.

• Working closely with the Architects and cross functional teams to ensure overall architecture and design are aligned with Industry’s best practices.

• Innovation and Research: Stay updated on emerging technologies, assess their relevance to the business, and propose innovative solutions.

• Vendor and Partner Management: Evaluate and manage relationships with technology vendors and partners to ensure they support the organization's strategic objectives.

• Work closely with process experts to analyze and design solutions based on business requirements.

What we’re looking for...

You get excited by the possibilities that technology creates and how it can improve people’s lives. Applying your analytical skills and expertise to solve complex problems is personally rewarding. No stranger to working in a fast-paced environment, you convey a sense of urgency and balance multiple opposing priorities with ease, never missing a deadline.

You’ll need to have:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in one or more of Data Science, LLM, Gen AI

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred

• Established experience delivering information management solutions to large numbers of end users

• Development and testing of Generative AI solution both through Agentic and non-AgenticAI

• Deep understanding of frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, LangSmith

• Deep understanding of Data preprocessing, Prompt management, Caching, Validation, Advanced RAG, RLHF and success measurement.

• Thorough understanding of LLMOps, data pipelines and other common services required to operationalize the Generative AI use cases.

• Designing end-to-end Generative AI solutions tailored to specific Verizon use cases.

• Deep understanding of automation and AI technologies and their application in business operations.

• Develop scalable prototypes of LLM and NLP Modules and systems which are critical to the company’s product lines.

• Apply state-of-the-art LLM techniques to understand a large amount of unstructured data and translate them to a meaningful and structured data

• Strong independent and creative research skills necessary to keep up with the latest trends in advanced analytics and Gen AI

• Identify new process opportunities, while quickly assessing feasibility.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills able to effectively communicate technical details to a non-technical audience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Familiarity with Graph DB Concepts

• Familiarity with one or more Data Platforms - CloudEra, Snowflake, DataBricks etc.

• Experience in text processing, Vector databases and embedding models.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.