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    Principal Architect AI Data Engineer

    Gurugram, IndiaOn-SiteFull-time15+ yrs experiencePosted 2mo ago
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    Job description

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

    Key Responsibilities

    Architecture & Solution Leadership

    • Lead the design of enterprise-grade GenAI and agentic architectures (single-agent, multi-agent, tool-driven systems).
    • Define reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and best practices for LLM applications across the organisation.
    • Architect and oversee implementation of end-to-end RAG pipelines:
      • Data ingestion → chunking → embeddings → vector search → orchestration → response synthesis.
    • Drive scalability, reliability, cost optimisation, and performance across GenAI platforms.

    Agentic & LLM Engineering (Hands-on + Oversight)

    • Provide technical leadership in prompt engineering, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.).
    • Guide teams on tool-calling, function-calling, memory handling, and multi-agent system design.
    • Lead efforts in hallucination reduction, guardrails, safety mechanisms, and output evaluation frameworks.

    Platform & Engineering Excellence

    • Architect production-grade APIs and services (FastAPI/Flask/enterprise microservices) for LLM solutions.
    • Define MLOps / LLMOps pipelines including CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and evaluation.
    • Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure:
      • Data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance
      • Seamless integration with enterprise data platforms

    Organisation-Level Responsibilities (Critical)

    Capability Building & CoE Development

    • Build and scale GenAI / Agentic AI Centre of Excellence (CoE).
    • Define standardised frameworks, accelerators, and reusable components to improve delivery velocity.
    • Drive organisation-wide adoption of GenAI best practices and tooling standards.

    Strategic & Stakeholder Leadership

    • Engage with CXOs, business stakeholders, and clients to translate business problems into AI-led solutions.
    • Lead solutioning, pre-sales, RFP responses, and client workshops for GenAI opportunities.
    • Influence AI strategy, roadmap, and investment decisions at organisational level.

    Governance, Risk & Compliance

    • Establish enterprise governance frameworks for GenAI:
      • Responsible AI, security, privacy, ethical usage, and compliance
    • Define policies for:
      • Data access, redaction, model usage, auditability, and explainability

    Mentorship & Team Leadership

    • Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and data scientists.
    • Drive technical upskilling, hiring strategy, and capability maturity.
    • Review solution designs and enforce architecture quality standards.

    Experience & Must-Have Skills

    Experience

    • 15+ years of total experience in Data Engineering / Data Science / AI
    • 3+ years of hands-on experience in LLM / GenAI solutions at scale
    • Proven experience in architecture, solution design, and enterprise delivery

    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

    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, few-shot learning)
    • Experience with enterprise GenAI deployments (security, privacy, governance)
    • Experience with Azure ecosystem (Azure OpenAI, AI Search, Fabric, etc.)
    • Exposure to industry use cases (Insurance, BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, etc.)

    Responsibilities

    Key Responsibilities

    Architecture & Solution Leadership

    • Lead the design of enterprise-grade GenAI and agentic architectures (single-agent, multi-agent, tool-driven systems).
    • Define reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and best practices for LLM applications across the organisation.
    • Architect and oversee implementation of end-to-end RAG pipelines:
      • Data ingestion → chunking → embeddings → vector search → orchestration → response synthesis.
    • Drive scalability, reliability, cost optimisation, and performance across GenAI platforms.

    Agentic & LLM Engineering (Hands-on + Oversight)

    • Provide technical leadership in prompt engineering, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.).
    • Guide teams on tool-calling, function-calling, memory handling, and multi-agent system design.
    • Lead efforts in hallucination reduction, guardrails, safety mechanisms, and output evaluation frameworks.

    Platform & Engineering Excellence

    • Architect production-grade APIs and services (FastAPI/Flask/enterprise microservices) for LLM solutions.
    • Define MLOps / LLMOps pipelines including CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and evaluation.
    • Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure:
      • Data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance
      • Seamless integration with enterprise data platforms

    Organisation-Level Responsibilities (Critical)

    Capability Building & CoE Development

    • Build and scale GenAI / Agentic AI Centre of Excellence (CoE).
    • Define standardised frameworks, accelerators, and reusable components to improve delivery velocity.
    • Drive organisation-wide adoption of GenAI best practices and tooling standards.

    Strategic & Stakeholder Leadership

    • Engage with CXOs, business stakeholders, and clients to translate business problems into AI-led solutions.
    • Lead solutioning, pre-sales, RFP responses, and client workshops for GenAI opportunities.
    • Influence AI strategy, roadmap, and investment decisions at organisational level.

    Governance, Risk & Compliance

    • Establish enterprise governance frameworks for GenAI:
      • Responsible AI, security, privacy, ethical usage, and compliance
    • Define policies for:
      • Data access, redaction, model usage, auditability, and explainability

    Mentorship & Team Leadership

    • Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and data scientists.
    • Drive technical upskilling, hiring strategy, and capability maturity.
    • Review solution designs and enforce architecture quality standards.

    Experience & Must-Have Skills

    Experience

    • 15+ years of total experience in Data Engineering / Data Science / AI
    • 3+ years of hands-on experience in LLM / GenAI solutions at scale
    • Proven experience in architecture, solution design, and enterprise delivery

    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

    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, few-shot learning)
    • Experience with enterprise GenAI deployments (security, privacy, governance)
    • Experience with Azure ecosystem (Azure OpenAI, AI Search, Fabric, etc.)
    • Exposure to industry use cases (Insurance, BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, etc.)

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities

    Architecture & Solution Leadership

    • Lead the design of enterprise-grade GenAI and agentic architectures (single-agent, multi-agent, tool-driven systems).
    • Define reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and best practices for LLM applications across the organisation.
    • Architect and oversee implementation of end-to-end RAG pipelines:
      • Data ingestion → chunking → embeddings → vector search → orchestration → response synthesis.
    • Drive scalability, reliability, cost optimisation, and performance across GenAI platforms.

    Agentic & LLM Engineering (Hands-on + Oversight)

    • Provide technical leadership in prompt engineering, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.).
    • Guide teams on tool-calling, function-calling, memory handling, and multi-agent system design.
    • Lead efforts in hallucination reduction, guardrails, safety mechanisms, and output evaluation frameworks.

    Platform & Engineering Excellence

    • Architect production-grade APIs and services (FastAPI/Flask/enterprise microservices) for LLM solutions.
    • Define MLOps / LLMOps pipelines including CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and evaluation.
    • Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure:
      • Data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance
      • Seamless integration with enterprise data platforms

    Organisation-Level Responsibilities (Critical)

    Capability Building & CoE Development

    • Build and scale GenAI / Agentic AI Centre of Excellence (CoE).
    • Define standardised frameworks, accelerators, and reusable components to improve delivery velocity.
    • Drive organisation-wide adoption of GenAI best practices and tooling standards.

    Strategic & Stakeholder Leadership

    • Engage with CXOs, business stakeholders, and clients to translate business problems into AI-led solutions.
    • Lead solutioning, pre-sales, RFP responses, and client workshops for GenAI opportunities.
    • Influence AI strategy, roadmap, and investment decisions at organisational level.

    Governance, Risk & Compliance

    • Establish enterprise governance frameworks for GenAI:
      • Responsible AI, security, privacy, ethical usage, and compliance
    • Define policies for:
      • Data access, redaction, model usage, auditability, and explainability

    Mentorship & Team Leadership

    • Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and data scientists.
    • Drive technical upskilling, hiring strategy, and capability maturity.
    • Review solution designs and enforce architecture quality standards.

    Experience & Must-Have Skills

    Experience

    • 15+ years of total experience in Data Engineering / Data Science / AI
    • 3+ years of hands-on experience in LLM / GenAI solutions at scale
    • Proven experience in architecture, solution design, and enterprise delivery

    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

    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, few-shot learning)
    • Experience with enterprise GenAI deployments (security, privacy, governance)
    • Experience with Azure ecosystem (Azure OpenAI, AI Search, Fabric, etc.)
    • Exposure to industry use cases (Insurance, BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, etc.)

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