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    Exl

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    Architect AI Data Engineer

    Gurugram, IndiaOn-SiteFull-time12–15 yrs experiencePosted 2mo ago
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    Job description

    • Job Role: AI architecture-AI architect
    • Experience (In Years): 12-15
    • Job Location: Gurgaon

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Solution Architecture & Strategy

    • Define and lead end-to-end architecture for enterprise GenAI platforms and use cases
    • Design scalable agentic systems (single-agent, multi-agent, orchestration frameworks)
    • Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable frameworks
    • Lead architecture decisions on RAG vs fine-tuning vs hybrid approaches
    • Conduct technology evaluations (LLMs, vector DBs, orchestration frameworks) and recommend best-fit solutions

    2. Agentic AI & LLM Engineering Leadership

    • Design and implement complex agentic workflows with tool calling, function orchestration, and memory strategies
    • Build enterprise-grade RAG pipelines with strong focus on retrieval accuracy and evaluation
    • Drive prompt architecture standards (prompt libraries, chaining, orchestration governance)
    • Optimise solutions for latency, cost, scalability, and reliability

    3. Platform & Engineering Excellence

    • Lead development of GenAI platforms, APIs, and microservices (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
    • Define engineering best practices: coding standards, testing, packaging, observability
    • Ensure seamless integration with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and business applications
    • Collaborate with MLOps teams for CI/CD, deployment pipelines, versioning, and monitoring

    4. Governance, Risk & Responsible AI

    • Define and enforce LLM guardrails (hallucination control, safety filters, policy enforcement)
    • Implement evaluation frameworks (RAG evaluation, prompt testing, benchmarking)
    • Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and enterprise governance standards
    • Drive adoption of Responsible AI practices (bias mitigation, explainability, auditability)

    5. Data & Ecosystem Collaboration

    • Partner with Data Engineering teams on:
      • Data ingestion, pipelines, and quality controls
      • Metadata management and knowledge graph strategies
    • Work with business stakeholders to:
      • Identify high-value GenAI use cases
      • Translate business problems into AI-driven solutions

    6. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

    • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams
    • Act as a solution advisor to clients/stakeholders (including pre-sales, PoCs, solutioning)
    • Present architecture and design decisions to senior leadership and CXOs
    • Drive COE initiatives, knowledge sharing, and internal capability building

    Must-Have Skills & Experience

    Experience

    • 12–15 years total experience, with 3+ years in GenAI / LLM-based systems
    • Proven experience in leading architecture and delivery of enterprise solutions

    LLM / GenAI & Agentic Engineering

    • Strong hands-on experience with:
      • LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
      • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimisation
      • GPT + Agentic AI implementation experience
    • Experience with:
      • LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
      • Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
    • Deep understanding of:
      • LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies

    Core Engineering

    • Strong Python/Pyspark engineering expertise (production-grade development) with proven API integration experience
    • Deep data analysis experience and handling large volume of data
    • Fabric/Azure Databricks/Snowflake data engineering integration skills
    • Good exposure to:
      • Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
      • SQL
      • Containers, CI/CD, monitoring

    Cloud & Platform

    • Hands-on experience with Azure / AWS / GCP
    • Familiarity with:
      • Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
      • CI/CD pipelines
      • Monitoring & observability

    Data / AI Foundations (Mandatory)

    Prior experience in one or more:

    • Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, pipelines, orchestration)
    • Data Science / ML lifecycle (especially NLP)
    • Analytics engineering / data products

    Good-to-Have / Preferred

    • Fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, PEFT, prompt tuning)
    • Experience with Azure AI stack (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Search)
    • Knowledge of knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or enterprise search
    • Experience in domain-specific GenAI solutions (Insurance, BFSI, Healthcare)

    Responsibilities

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Solution Architecture & Strategy

    • Define and lead end-to-end architecture for enterprise GenAI platforms and use cases
    • Design scalable agentic systems (single-agent, multi-agent, orchestration frameworks)
    • Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable frameworks
    • Lead architecture decisions on RAG vs fine-tuning vs hybrid approaches
    • Conduct technology evaluations (LLMs, vector DBs, orchestration frameworks) and recommend best-fit solutions

    2. Agentic AI & LLM Engineering Leadership

    • Design and implement complex agentic workflows with tool calling, function orchestration, and memory strategies
    • Build enterprise-grade RAG pipelines with strong focus on retrieval accuracy and evaluation
    • Drive prompt architecture standards (prompt libraries, chaining, orchestration governance)
    • Optimise solutions for latency, cost, scalability, and reliability

    3. Platform & Engineering Excellence

    • Lead development of GenAI platforms, APIs, and microservices (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
    • Define engineering best practices: coding standards, testing, packaging, observability
    • Ensure seamless integration with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and business applications
    • Collaborate with MLOps teams for CI/CD, deployment pipelines, versioning, and monitoring

    4. Governance, Risk & Responsible AI

    • Define and enforce LLM guardrails (hallucination control, safety filters, policy enforcement)
    • Implement evaluation frameworks (RAG evaluation, prompt testing, benchmarking)
    • Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and enterprise governance standards
    • Drive adoption of Responsible AI practices (bias mitigation, explainability, auditability)

    5. Data & Ecosystem Collaboration

    • Partner with Data Engineering teams on:
      • Data ingestion, pipelines, and quality controls
      • Metadata management and knowledge graph strategies
    • Work with business stakeholders to:
      • Identify high-value GenAI use cases
      • Translate business problems into AI-driven solutions

    6. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

    • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams
    • Act as a solution advisor to clients/stakeholders (including pre-sales, PoCs, solutioning)
    • Present architecture and design decisions to senior leadership and CXOs
    • Drive COE initiatives, knowledge sharing, and internal capability building

    Must-Have Skills & Experience

    Experience

    • 12–15 years total experience, with 3+ years in GenAI / LLM-based systems
    • Proven experience in leading architecture and delivery of enterprise solutions

    LLM / GenAI & Agentic Engineering

    • Strong hands-on experience with:
      • LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
      • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimisation
      • GPT + Agentic AI implementation experience
    • Experience with:
      • LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
      • Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
    • Deep understanding of:
      • LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies

    Core Engineering

    • Strong Python/Pyspark engineering expertise (production-grade development) with proven API integration experience
    • Deep data analysis experience and handling large volume of data
    • Fabric/Azure Databricks/Snowflake data engineering integration skills
    • Good exposure to:
      • Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
      • SQL
      • Containers, CI/CD, monitoring

    Cloud & Platform

    • Hands-on experience with Azure / AWS / GCP
    • Familiarity with:
      • Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
      • CI/CD pipelines
      • Monitoring & observability

    Data / AI Foundations (Mandatory)

    Prior experience in one or more:

    • Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, pipelines, orchestration)
    • Data Science / ML lifecycle (especially NLP)
    • Analytics engineering / data products

    Good-to-Have / Preferred

    • Fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, PEFT, prompt tuning)
    • Experience with Azure AI stack (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Search)
    • Knowledge of knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or enterprise search
    • Experience in domain-specific GenAI solutions (Insurance, BFSI, Healthcare)

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Solution Architecture & Strategy

    • Define and lead end-to-end architecture for enterprise GenAI platforms and use cases
    • Design scalable agentic systems (single-agent, multi-agent, orchestration frameworks)
    • Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable frameworks
    • Lead architecture decisions on RAG vs fine-tuning vs hybrid approaches
    • Conduct technology evaluations (LLMs, vector DBs, orchestration frameworks) and recommend best-fit solutions

    2. Agentic AI & LLM Engineering Leadership

    • Design and implement complex agentic workflows with tool calling, function orchestration, and memory strategies
    • Build enterprise-grade RAG pipelines with strong focus on retrieval accuracy and evaluation
    • Drive prompt architecture standards (prompt libraries, chaining, orchestration governance)
    • Optimise solutions for latency, cost, scalability, and reliability

    3. Platform & Engineering Excellence

    • Lead development of GenAI platforms, APIs, and microservices (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
    • Define engineering best practices: coding standards, testing, packaging, observability
    • Ensure seamless integration with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and business applications
    • Collaborate with MLOps teams for CI/CD, deployment pipelines, versioning, and monitoring

    4. Governance, Risk & Responsible AI

    • Define and enforce LLM guardrails (hallucination control, safety filters, policy enforcement)
    • Implement evaluation frameworks (RAG evaluation, prompt testing, benchmarking)
    • Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and enterprise governance standards
    • Drive adoption of Responsible AI practices (bias mitigation, explainability, auditability)

    5. Data & Ecosystem Collaboration

    • Partner with Data Engineering teams on:
      • Data ingestion, pipelines, and quality controls
      • Metadata management and knowledge graph strategies
    • Work with business stakeholders to:
      • Identify high-value GenAI use cases
      • Translate business problems into AI-driven solutions

    6. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

    • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams
    • Act as a solution advisor to clients/stakeholders (including pre-sales, PoCs, solutioning)
    • Present architecture and design decisions to senior leadership and CXOs
    • Drive COE initiatives, knowledge sharing, and internal capability building

    Must-Have Skills & Experience

    Experience

    • 12–15 years total experience, with 3+ years in GenAI / LLM-based systems
    • Proven experience in leading architecture and delivery of enterprise solutions

    LLM / GenAI & Agentic Engineering

    • Strong hands-on experience with:
      • LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
      • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimisation
      • GPT + Agentic AI implementation experience
    • Experience with:
      • LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
      • Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
    • Deep understanding of:
      • LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies

    Core Engineering

    • Strong Python/Pyspark engineering expertise (production-grade development) with proven API integration experience
    • Deep data analysis experience and handling large volume of data
    • Fabric/Azure Databricks/Snowflake data engineering integration skills
    • Good exposure to:
      • Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
      • SQL
      • Containers, CI/CD, monitoring

    Cloud & Platform

    • Hands-on experience with Azure / AWS / GCP
    • Familiarity with:
      • Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
      • CI/CD pipelines
      • Monitoring & observability

    Data / AI Foundations (Mandatory)

    Prior experience in one or more:

    • Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, pipelines, orchestration)
    • Data Science / ML lifecycle (especially NLP)
    • Analytics engineering / data products

    Good-to-Have / Preferred

    • Fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, PEFT, prompt tuning)
    • Experience with Azure AI stack (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Search)
    • Knowledge of knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or enterprise search
    • Experience in domain-specific GenAI solutions (Insurance, BFSI, Healthcare)

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