IT Advanced AI Programmer Analyst (AI Solutions)

15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154

Why Valmont
 

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

 

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce. Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

A Brief Summary of This Position:

The main goal of this position is an end-to-end role working at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and business problem-solving. This role owns solutions from problem discovery to production, working directly with internal stakeholders to understand business needs, shaping the solution, and delivering systems that creates measurable value to the business and performs analysis, design, development and implementation of application programs and the modification of existing application programs. In this role you will analyze project requirements, develop effort estimates, develop solutions, test and provide technical support. As an Advanced AI Programmer Analyst, you will support major cross functional projects with complex and challenging business problems that can have a broad organization impact and provide opportunities for significant competitive advantage. You may solve highly technical complex problems and be included as a consultant for other projects. Direction is provided by the immediate manager and normally consists of relative priority and timing requirements of the assignment, business process requirements and tradeoffs, assigned resources, security and/or performance requirements, interface and technical requirements. You will be encouraged to provide guidance to other technical resources to maximize production output and quality by effectively leveraging AI capabilities.

The system user or customer is fully involved at each stage of implementation to help ensure the accuracy of the solution. The Advanced AI Programmer Analyst leads activities by coordinating development, systems integration and end user testing including planning, building, scheduling, facilitating execution, issues resolution, controlling scope, and adjusting to unforeseen issues. You will work with the project team to document, prioritize, and resolve issues to ensure testing deliverables are completed on time. Development and implementation of applications require a broad understanding of application architecture and integration with business systems. The Advanced AI Programmer Analyst must perform feasibility and economic analysis to evaluate system alternatives for cost and bottom-line impact. Efficiency of the entire business process must be considered throughout the development cycle.

It is essential to embody Valmont’s core values of Passion, Integrity, Continuous Improvement, and Delivering Results while cultivating a workplace where employees feel valued, trusted, understood, and respected.

Essential Functions:

· This position reports to the Manager IT Business Applications and has no direct or indirect reports.

· This role requires up to 25% travel (internationally/domestically), including overnight stays.

· Apply Agile, Waterfall or other similar application lifecycle methodology to develop solutions.

· Own AI-driven software solutions end-to-end, from initial problem discovery and stakeholder interviews through design, development and deployment.

· Work directly with internal business teams to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for automation and optimization

· Design, build, and operate end-to-end, cloud-native systems, covering scalable backend services in Python, modern frontends using Angular or React, and secure, reliable infrastructure

· Collaborate closely with the Data Science team to integrate models, optimization algorithms, and AI agents into production systems

· Balance rapid experimentation with production-grade engineering practices in a real-world industrial environment

· Perform systems analysis and design, document, develop, implement, and maintain complex application development work with little or no supervision.

· Ensure systems and applications created under his/her responsibility adhere to departmental standards