Senior Architect - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Define and drive the overall AI/ML architecture strategy across the organization
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure AI pipelines and platforms
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI frameworks, LLM APIs, and vector databases
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to translate requirements into technical roadmaps
- Establish best practices for model lifecycle management, MLOps, and responsible AI
- Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design sessions
- Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership across squads
- Drive proof-of-concepts (PoCs) for emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption
- Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR, DPDPA) in AI systems
- Own non-functional requirements: scalability, latency, availability, and cost optimization
KEY SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS :
- Deep expertise in AI/ML architecture patterns: RAG, agentic AI, multi-model orchestration
- Proficiency with LLM ecosystems: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral)
- Strong knowledge of vector databases: Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, ChromaDB
- Cloud architecture expertise: AWS, GCP, or Azure (AI/ML services SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI)
- Experience with MLOps tools: MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases
- Proficiency in Python for AI/ML; working knowledge of Node.js or Java for backend integration
- Knowledge of data engineering: Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow
- Strong understanding of microservices, API design, and event-driven architecture
- Familiarity with AI governance, model evaluation frameworks, and prompt engineering
- Experience with containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
NICE TO HAVE :
- Experience with agentic frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI
- Published research or open-source contributions in AI/ML
- Exposure to multi-modal AI (vision, voice, video) systems
- Prior startup or product-led company experience
Skills
- Agentic AI
- AI
- Airflow
- Anthropic
- API
- Api Design
- AutoGen
- AWS
- Azure
- ChromaDB
- Claude
- Cloud
- Containerization
- CrewAI
- Data Engineering
- dbt
- Docker
- Event Driven Architecture
- GCP
- Gdpr
- Gemini
- Helm
- Java
- Kafka
- Kubeflow
- Kubernetes
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- Microservices
- Mistral
- MLflow
- MLOps
- Model Evaluation
- Node.js
- OpenAI
- pgvector
- Pinecone
- Prompt Engineering
- Python
- RAG
- SageMaker
- Spark
- Vector Databases
- Vertex AI
- Weaviate