Enterprise AI Architect
About the job
- Strong hands-on experience using Claude Code in real software-development or business-workflow scenarios.
- Practical experience creating Claude Code Skills or comparable reusable capabilities for AI coding agents.
- Strong understanding of modern AI engineering patterns, including agentic workflows, tool use, prompt engineering, context engineering, and structured instruction design.
- Proven hands-on software engineering experience and the ability to build, review, test, and maintain production-quality solutions.
- Ability to transform business requirements and domain knowledge into clear technical designs and executable workflows.
- Experience evaluating and improving non-deterministic AI solutions.
- Ability to own the technical shape of the whole capability, including standards, shared components, evaluation and release strategy, and backwards compatibility.
- Ability to define and enforce what a well-formed skill looks like, what belongs in shared infrastructure, and what gets rejected in review.
- Ability to make and justify platform-level decisions, including choices around agent harnesses, integration architecture, and build-versus-adopt strategies, while providing clear technical rationale for foundational decisions that impact the entire platform.
- Collaborate directly with business stakeholders and domain experts to understand their objectives, processes, constraints, and expected outcomes.
- Analyze business requirements, documentation, examples, templates, and other reference materials provided by stakeholders.
- Identify workflows and use cases that can be implemented or improved through Claude Code Skills.
- Design, implement, test, and maintain reusable Claude Code Skills.
- Create clear skill instructions, supporting scripts, reference materials, validation logic, and reusable workflow components.
- Translate complex or ambiguous business processes into structured, executable instructions for AI agents.
- Evaluate skill behavior using realistic scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Improve the reliability, accuracy, usability, and maintainability of developed skills through iterative testing and stakeholder feedback.
- Provide technical leadership over other engineers through reviews, direction, and unblocking.
- Hands-on experience with Claude Code, specifically authoring Claude Code Skills, plugins, or MCP servers.
- Experience with evaluation tooling for LLM systems, such as promptfoo, LangSmith, or custom harnesses.
- Consulting or professional services background.
- Domain exposure to HR technology, compensation and benefits, payroll, or workforce analytics.
- Experience building internal developer tooling or standing up a platform capability.
- Public artifacts such as open-source agent tooling, published skills or plugins, conference talks, or technical writing on agentic engineering.
About the company
Exadel provides end-to-end digital transformation services across five core areas: strategy and technology consulting, AI and data management, digital experience, digital products and platforms, and managed services. It helps clients achieve business outcomes by combining agile development with deep industry and technology expertise and collaborative partnership. The company delivers solutions through globally distributed delivery centers and emphasizes continuous innovation and accelerated change. Compared with competitors, Exadel is Forrester-recognized as a leader in Agile Development and differentiates itself with its global footprint, multi-area expertise, and collaborative approach to delivering technology-driven outcomes. Its goal is to help organizations navigate digital transformation and improve performance by delivering practical, scalable technology solutions and services.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Walnut Creek, California
Founded
1998
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Exadel acquired Tangent on May 18, 2026, expanding UK and European client coverage.
- Colleague launched May 14, 2026, reporting 80% autonomous ticket resolution and 70% lower compute costs.
- Exadel listed 282 active job postings in 2026, showing continued hiring momentum.
What critics are saying
- Exadel headcount fell 18.2% from 2023 to 2026, signaling ongoing delivery pressure.
- BCLabs sued Exadel in June 2025 for breach of contract in Northern California.
- If Colleague stalls, Exadel stays a labor-arbitrage services vendor facing AI-native competitors by 2027.
What makes Exadel unique
- Exadel pairs Sun Capital backing with engineering, consulting, and managed services across continents.
- Exadel Colleague automates ticket-to-PR delivery using model-agnostic, patent-pending multi-agent workflows.
- Tangent adds UK digital-experience consulting and enterprise design talent to Exadel's portfolio.
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6 month growth
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2%2 year growth
2%Tangent, a UK-based digital transformation agency, has been acquired by US private equity-backed Exadel in a deal advised by Tura Advisory. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded by brothers Theo and Oli Green of Brave Bison, Tangent developed strategic consulting capabilities and proprietary digital transformation frameworks. Under CEO Leigh Gammons, the company built specialist AI-first expertise, attracting interest from strategic buyers. Exadel, a global digital engineering firm backed by Sun Capital, operates across the US and Europe. The acquisition strengthens its European presence and adds front-end consulting and strategic design capabilities to its portfolio. Tura Advisory acted as exclusive sell-side adviser to Tangent. The deal reflects growing market interest in digital services businesses combining strategic consulting with AI capabilities and delivery teams.
Unites AI-powered engineering with experience design expertise to deliver end-to-end digital transformation
Exadel launches Exadel Colleague, an autonomous AI delivery peer built to solve problems AI coding tools leave behind. Patent-pending multi-agent technology works with human engineering teams inside existing workflows to clear backlogs, enforce quality, and deliver results. Exadel, a global software development and consulting firm, today announced the launch of Exadel Colleague, an autonomous AI delivery peer built on patent-pending technology. Designed to address the real, compounding challenges that enterprise engineering teams face, such as unpredictable AI costs, persistent backlogs, fragile code quality, and capacity gaps, Exadel Colleague represents a fundamental shift in how AI-powered software delivery can work in practice. Exadel Colleague marks a critical shift from AI-assisted task execution to autonomous software delivery." - Michael Boustridge, CEO of Exadel Unlike AI coding assistants that generate output and hand it back to developers, Exadel Colleague operates as a fully autonomous peer. It accepts tickets directly, plans the work, writes tests before any production code is generated, builds the solution, and submits a validated pull request for engineer review and approval. The entire hand-off is a single ticket assignment. Engineers stay in control of every critical decision, while Colleague handles the work in between 24x7. Built on patent-pending multi-agent technology and drawing on decades of Exadel engineering expertise, Colleague is agent-agnostic and model-agnostic, routing each task to the best available model, including Claude, Codex, Gemini, and others, without locking clients into any single vendor and enabling token optimization. May 15, 2026 Prev Next 1 of 42,933 Deployment options include private cloud, on-premise, and Bring Your Own Key, making Colleague enterprise-ready for organizations with strict data sovereignty and compliance requirements. In live engagements, teams have recovered more than 100 Human-Equivalent Hours per project, resolved up to 80 percent of low-to-mid complexity tickets autonomously, and reduced AI compute costs by almost 70 percent through Colleague's asynchronous execution and intelligent model routing. Every engagement begins with a benchmarked baseline, giving engineering leaders and business stakeholders measurable outputs from Day One. "Exadel Colleague marks a critical shift from AI-assisted task execution to autonomous software delivery," said Michael Boustridge, CEO of Exadel. "Beyond accelerating development timelines, it fundamentally restructures the economics of enterprise AI. By operating continuously and optimizing token utilization by 75 percent, Colleague delivers exponential productivity gains without degrading margins. Furthermore, our model-agnostic architecture mitigates risk, ensuring organizations can scale global engineering capacity sustainably while maintaining long-term technological flexibility." Exadel Colleague integrates with developer tools such as Jira and Git in near real time with no disruption to existing workflows, no new tooling, and no onboarding requirement. It is available as part of every Exadel engagement. [To share your insights with Aithority, please write to [email protected]]
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