At AKS, we are growing and building for the future. We bring together multidisciplined experts across the land development, energy, and infrastructure markets to take on bigger challenges and deliver solutions that make a real difference. Our teams combine creativity, technical excellence, and a collaborative, hands-on approach to solve complex problems and deliver results our clients and communities can count on. We take pride in our work and our ability to provide opportunities for our teams, support each other’s growth, and look ahead to what’s next. When you join AKS, you will ﬁnd opportunities to take ownership of meaningful projects, learn, lead, and make an impact from day one.

The Business Automation & AI Program Manager leads AKS’s strategy and execution for artificial intelligence, workflow automation, business process improvement, application development, systems integration, data, and analytics. This role partners closely with executives, discipline leaders, department leaders, and technical teams to understand how work is performed today, identify opportunities for improvement, and turn those opportunities into practical, secure, scalable digital solutions. The ideal candidate is curious, collaborative, technically capable, and highly business-oriented. They are comfortable discussing AI strategy with executives, mapping a process with discipline leaders, reviewing an API integration with developers, and demonstrating a new digital solution to employees.

What You’ll Do

Lead the enterprise roadmap for artificial intelligence, automation, data, and digital transformation.
Identify and prioritize high-value opportunities based on business impact, complexity, risk, and organizational readiness.
Lead practical adoption of generative AI, enterprise AI assistants, AI agents, workflow automation, and data-driven tools.
Ensure AI and automation initiatives are tied to measurable business outcomes rather than technology for technology’s sake.
Work directly with discipline and department leaders to understand current-state business processes and proactively identify manual, repetitive, spreadsheet-driven, email-driven, or disconnected processes that can be simplified, improved, automated, or redesigned.
Design improved future-state processes and determine when automation, applications, integrations, analytics, or AI are appropriate.
Challenge existing processes when appropriate rather than simply automating the way work is performed today, with a focus on simplifying and improving the process before technology is applied.
Provide leadership and technical direction for Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and related Power Platform capabilities.
Establish standards for environments, security, development, testing, documentation, deployment, support, and lifecycle management.
Provide leadership, prioritization, technical direction, and mentorship to team members and technical resources responsible for delivering Power Platform, automation, integration, data , and AI solutions.
Set the organization’s Microsoft Fabric and OneLake direction in partnership with IT, data teams, and vendors.
Guide enterprise data integration, pipelines, semantic models, Power BI and analytics capabilities, data quality, governance, and security.
Define the strategy for integrating enterprise systems using REST APIs, JSON, HTTP, OAuth 2.0, webhooks, connectors, and related technologies.
Build strong, trusted relationships with executives, discipline leaders, department leaders, technical teams, and end users.
Lead organization adoption of new AI, automation, and digital solutions through stakeholder engagement, communication, demonstrations, pilot programs, training, feedback, and change management.
Translate business challenges into technology opportunities and explain technical concepts clearly to nontechnical audiences.
Establish success metrics and measure the business impact of initiatives, including hours saved, cycle-time reduction, error reduction, user adoption, ,improved data quality,, cost avoidance, and other measurable operational improvements.