Principal Architect AI Data Engineer
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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.
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
Data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance
Seamless integration with enterprise data platforms
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
Responsible AI, security, privacy, ethical usage, and compliance
Define policies for: Data access, redaction, model usage, auditability, and explainability
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
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
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
LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
Deep understanding of: LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies
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 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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