AI Squad Lead – AI Orchestration, Software Delivery

CI&T

Lead a multidisciplinary software squad to implement and govern AI agents across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Drive delivery, quality, and adoption of AI-augmented development practices.

Posted 7/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading Agile software development teams, orchestrating AI agents throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, and managing backlog and delivery priorities to maximize business value. Proficient in defining and monitoring productivity and quality metrics while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within multidisciplinary squads.

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Agile Team LeadershipBacklog ManagementAI Agent OrchestrationProductivity Metrics DefinitionExcellent Communication Skills

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Hard Skills

ScrumKanbanBacklog ManagementProductivity MetricsQuality MetricsAI WorkflowsPrompt EngineeringContinuous ImprovementAutomationOptimization

Soft Skills

CollaborationResults-OrientedProblem-SolvingStakeholder CommunicationTeam Development

Tools & Technologies

JiraAzure DevOpsClaude CodeGitHub CopilotCursorWindsurf

Industry Keywords

Software Development Life CycleAI AdoptionAgile MethodologiesGovernance StandardsEngineering Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a multidisciplinary squad, fostering a collaborative, autonomous, and results-oriented environment.
Orchestrate the use of AI agents across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring their application in appropriate contexts and adherence to quality and governance standards.
Facilitate Agile ceremonies (Planning, Daily, Review, and Retrospective), adapting the workflow to a development model supported by AI.
Manage the backlog in partnership with Product Managers and stakeholders, prioritizing deliveries that provide the greatest business value.
Continuously monitor the quality of human deliverables and outputs generated by AI agents, refining workflows, prompts, and configurations as needed.
Define and track productivity, quality, efficiency, and AI adoption metrics for the squad.
Remove impediments and manage risks, ensuring predictability in deliveries.
Promote continuous alignment between product, business, and technology, ensuring transparent communication with all stakeholders.
Encourage technical development of the team and continuous improvement of engineering practices and collaboration with AI.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, automation, and optimization of the development process.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience leading software development squads as a Squad Lead, Scrum Master, Engineering Manager, or similar roles.
Experience leading Agile teams using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid methodologies.
Experience in backlog management, planning, and tracking deliveries.
Ability to define and monitor productivity, quality, and efficiency metrics for technology teams.
Excellent communication skills to act as a bridge between Product, Business, Engineering, and stakeholders.
Experience with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar.
Hands-on experience orchestrating Artificial Intelligence agents in development environments.
Familiarity with tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, or similar.
Knowledge of Prompt Engineering and AI Workflows.
Experience defining guardrails and best practices for the use of AI in software development.
Familiarity with AI-supported productivity metrics and AI-Augmented Development models.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health and dental insurance.
Meal and food allowance.
Childcare allowance.
Extended parental leave.
Partnerships with gyms and health & wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass.
Profit Sharing (PLR).
Life insurance.
Continuous learning platform (CI&T University).
Discount club.
Free online platform dedicated to promoting physical and mental health and well-being.
Pregnancy and responsible parenthood course.
Partnerships with online course platforms.
Language learning platform.
And many more.