GCP Delivery Lead

1. Company Description:

Tatvic, is a marketing analytics company focusing on generating insights from data using long association with Google & its infrastructure. We breed,recognize and reward performance. As a company we are growing very fast & we are under transformation. To enable this transformation we need future leaders with eyesight which balances execution & strategic understanding.

Website: www.tatvic.com

2. Role Details

• Role: Lead Data Engineer
• Band: L4
• Department: Data Engineering
• Reporting to: L5 / Head of Delivery
• Location: Ahmedabad
• Job Type: Full Time
• Experience: 6-8 years of relevant experience
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.

3. Mission & Role Overview

• Mission: To create high-level organizational impact by leading a team to design and deliver scalable, high-performance cloud-native data solutions. The Lead Data Engineer (L4) is responsible for ensuring technical excellence—specifically in BigQuery optimization and secure GCP/AWS architectures—while driving the transition to Agentic AI workflows and creating value through the development of L1-L3 engineers.
• Role Overview: This is a pivotal leadership role on the Management Track, responsible for end-to-end data outcomes for the function. The Lead Engineer ensures the quality of engineering execution, manages team utilization and resource allocation, and serves as the primary technical representative in cross-functional forums with Marketing, Strategy, and Product teams.

4. Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable and efficient cloud-based data pipelines and architectures.
• Build reusable data solutions and software components that serve multiple customers and use cases.
• Architect cloud environments using GCP, ensuring best practices in IAM, Security, and Networking.
• Conduct Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on clickstream and behavioral datasets to derive insights.
• Manage end-to-end ETL processes, including data extraction, transformation, and loading using Python, SQL, and Airflow.
• Design and build production-grade software (APIs, services, internal tools) with sound engineering practices — version control, testing, CI/CD, and code review.
• Extend data platforms with AI capabilities — integrating LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows where they add clear business value.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and resolve data quality, pipeline, or application issues.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Insights, Product, and Engineering teams to align data initiatives with business goals.
• Document architectures, design decisions, and operations clearly and consistently.
• Coach and mentor team members, ensuring technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Participate in recruitment and knowledge-sharing through interviews, blogs, and webinars.

5. Must-Have & Good-to-Have Skills

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong understanding of clickstream data and data pipeline architecture
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP)
• Expertise in SQL, Python, and Airflow
• Solid software engineering foundation — API design, testing, version control, and deployment practices
• Proven ability to perform exploratory data analysis and data validation
• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, and networking best practices
• Working knowledge of building or integrating AI/LLM-based components into existing systems
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Certifications such as: Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer / Cloud Architect
• AWS Certified Data Analytics or Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Google Analytics 4 (GAIQ)
• Experience in marketing attribution, commerce data, or analytics ecosystems
• Exposure to cost optimization and cloud resource management
• Experience with agent frameworks (LangChain, ADK, MCP) or LLM APIs
• Experience building automation frameworks or internal data tools

6. Not-a-Fit Criteria

• Individual Contributor Focus: Operates as the team's best individual contributor instead of building team capability or empowering L3s.
• Information Hoarding: Keeps architectural patterns or tribal knowledge trapped in their head rather than creating reusable playbooks and documentation.
• Avoidance of Conflict: Avoids difficult performance conversations with underperforming team members, allowing capability gaps to persist.
• Activity Over Outcomes: Measures success by "tasks completed" rather than pipeline stability, data accuracy, or business impact.
• Functional Siloing: Fails to build partnerships with Marketing or Product teams, leading to misaligned data delivery.

Our Culture & Perks - Where Passion Meets Purpose:

• Competitive CTC: Based on experience and skillset
• Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Return-to-Work Program for New Moms — because career breaks shouldn’t break momentum
• 1 Work From Home Day/Month — flexibility when life calls
• 2 Birthday Leaves/Year — one for you, one for someone you love
• Monthly Engagement Activities — from game nights to learning sessions
• Inclusive Culture & Equal Opportunity Employer — diversity drives our innovation
• We Think Like Engineers & Athletes: we build, we iterate, we scale, we win — together
• 5-day workweek — because balance drives brilliance

About the role

You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.

Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office

What you will do

Technology & product leadership

• Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
• Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
• Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.

Engineering & platform management

• Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
• Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
• Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.

Innovation & AI strategy

• Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
• Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
• Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
• Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
• Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.

Technical leadership

• A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
• Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
• Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.

What success looks like

• Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
• Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
• Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.

Qualifications & experience

• Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
• A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
• Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
• Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
• Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.

Technical expertise

• Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
• Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).

Behavioural & leadership competencies

• Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
• Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
• High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.

Role Overview:

Virtana is seeking a Senior Manager, Global DevOps Engineering to lead the global team, platforms, and infrastructure that enable rapid, reliable product delivery. This leader will own DevOps strategy and execution across SaaS (GCP heavy, with presence in AWS and Azure) & on-premises Infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, reliability, security, and developer productivity, while aligning distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders around measurable business outcomes.

Key Accountabilities:

• Strategy and Execution: Set the global DevOps roadmap and operating model, aligned with product, engineering, and business priorities.
• Global Leadership: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team across geographies, with clear accountability and consistent engineering practices.
• Cloud and Platform Ownership: Own the architecture, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency of global GCP and hybrid infrastructure.
• Software Delivery: Advance secure, standardized CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and self-service capabilities to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Operational Excellence: Establish SLOs, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, governance and metrics for critical platforms. Own the global on-call program and serve as the escalation point for major incidents from SaaS Infra/DevOps side.
• Executive Partnership: Align stakeholders on priorities, investments, dependencies, and risk; communicate outcomes and tradeoffs to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications:  

• 15+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud operations, or DevOps, including 5+ years leading senior or management-level teams.
• Proven success in leading global teams across geographies, cultures, and time zones.
• Deep expertise in GCP architecture, security, networking, reliability, and cost governance.
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise CI/CD, build and release automation, and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, containers, observability, SRE, and disaster recovery.
• Track record operating secure, resilient global infrastructure for fast-paced development and release environments.
• Daily hands-on use of AI tools (e.g., Claude) for IaC, CI/CD pipelines and incident response, with a record of driving AI adoption that improves delivery speed and quality.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder leadership, with the ability to align priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and develop strong leaders.

About the Company

As the world moves toward AI-native applications, one element matters more than anything: data.

We are building a platform that helps organizations unlock the value hidden within customer feedback. By centralizing data from multiple sources—including CRM platforms, support systems, collaboration tools, surveys, community forums, and customer conversations—into a unified intelligence layer, we enable teams to understand customer needs and make better product decisions.

Built on top of this foundation is an AI-powered platform that allows teams to query, monitor, and act on customer intelligence directly within their workflows. Our customers include some of the fastest-growing product-led technology companies as well as large global enterprises.

Backed by leading global venture capital firms, our engineering culture is AI-native from the ground up. Agents, LLMs, and applied machine learning are not side projects—they are central to how we build products. We operate at the cutting edge of agentic systems and continuously push the boundaries of what modern AI applications can achieve.

What You Will Do

• Convert product direction into phased technical plans, including estimates, milestones, dependencies, and risk assessments.
• Make thoughtful trade-offs across correctness, latency, user experience, AI/model behavior, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
• Define clear ownership boundaries across frontend applications, BFF layers, backend services, agent workflows, ML platforms, and data contracts.
• Review ERDs, PRDs, design documents, and implementation plans to identify gaps before they become execution challenges.
• Drive planning and execution for complex initiatives while empowering area leads and senior engineers to maintain ownership.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM teams to turn ambiguous problem statements into executable solutions.
• Influence technical direction through strong engineering judgment, architectural leadership, and hands-on involvement.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering excellence through reviews, incident analysis, and proactive risk management.

What It Takes

• 9+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or equivalent role.
• Demonstrated experience owning architecture and execution for large-scale product or platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and modern software architecture.
• Exposure to agentic AI systems, machine learning engineering, MLOps platforms, and frontend/BFF architectures.
• Ability to own end-to-end product and technical problems rather than specializing exclusively in a single layer of the stack.
• Proven track record of converting ambiguity into actionable engineering plans.
• Excellent written communication skills, including design documentation, architectural reviews, trade-off analyses, and RCA documentation.
• Ability to challenge requirements constructively and collaborate effectively across Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM functions.
• High ownership mindset, attention to detail, and a low-ego, collaborative approach.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years in Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps, with strong hands-on GCP experience.
• GCP Expertise: GKE, Compute Engine, IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Load Balancing.
• Kubernetes & Containers: GKE, Docker, Kubernetes networking, Helm, and troubleshooting.
• DevOps & IaC: Azure DevOps, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Scripting: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Security & Operations: Cloud security, IAM, monitoring, incident management, and cost optimization.
• Leadership & Ownership: Proven experience in team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, managing multiple product-line deliverables, and handling competing priorities and ad hoc requests.
• Additional Advantage: Experience with Microsoft Azure.

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in AWS, GCP, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi and DevSecOps. The candidate will lead DevOps teams, drive technical delivery with client stakeholders, design scalable and secure cloud infrastructure, and establish best practices for automation, deployment, reliability, and cost optimization across cloud environments.

### Key Responsibilities

* Lead and mentor DevOps engineers, drive technical execution, and ensure timely delivery of client requirements.

* Engage with client teams and architects to understand requirements, provide technical guidance, and drive solution design and implementation.

* Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automated release processes.

* Architect and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP (Azure optional) using Infrastructure as Code.

* Lead containerization and orchestration initiatives using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

* Drive DevSecOps, observability, SRE practices, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization.

* Troubleshoot complex production issues, drive root cause analysis, and ensure system reliability, security, and performance.

* Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, Architecture, and client teams to drive engineering standards and continuous improvement.

### Mandatory Skills

* 7-9 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering, including team leadership and client-facing responsibilities.

* Strong hands-on experience with AWS and GCP, including cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and managed services.

* Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or equivalent platforms.

* Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and managed Kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS, or GKE.

* Hands-on expertise in Terraform and Ansible, with experience in Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.

* Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

* Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment automation.

* Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including security scanning, secrets management, and vulnerability management.

* Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, production troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

* Proficiency in Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and Bash/Python/PowerShell scripting.

* Proven ability to lead teams, manage priorities, communicate with clients, and drive technical decisions independently.

independently.

### Preferred Skills

* Knowledge of SAST/DAST, SBOM, software supply chain security, and security policy enforcement.

* Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or Splunk.

* Experience with cloud migrations, hybrid environments, disaster recovery, high availability, and cost optimisation.

* Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Consul, and API gateways or application gateways.

* Experience with enterprise cloud security, IAM, network security, and infrastructure

Director of Engineering (AI Solutions & Delivery)

About the Role

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead engineering execution and delivery across our enterprise AI solutions. This role combines strong engineering leadership with operational discipline, ensuring AI products move from technical design to production with predictable timelines, high quality, and reliable performance.

You will lead Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, oversee multiple engineering teams, and drive delivery excellence across AI-powered applications and platforms. The focus is on execution, technical quality, and organizational accountability, ensuring teams deliver scalable, production-ready AI systems without compromising reliability or engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Engineering Delivery & Execution

• Own engineering delivery schedules, translating product roadmaps into achievable sprint plans and release milestones.
• Establish measurable delivery targets, aiming for at least 85% on-time delivery across engineering teams.
• Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, technical bottlenecks, and resource constraints before they affect delivery.
• Drive engineering process improvements across Agile development, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management.
• Monitor delivery metrics, sprint commitments, and release readiness to maintain predictable execution.

2. AI Quality, Evaluation & Governance

• Establish automated AI evaluation pipelines to measure hallucinations, relevance, groundedness, and contextual accuracy before production releases.
• Define quality benchmarks and evaluation criteria for LLM-powered applications and AI-driven workflows.
• Implement safety mechanisms, validation filters, circuit breakers, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks to manage unpredictable AI outputs.
• Oversee RAG pipelines, vector databases, data ingestion, and retrieval mechanisms to maintain accurate, reliable, and compliant context.
• Reduce production AI quality regressions through continuous evaluation, monitoring, and feedback loops.

3. Architecture, Scalability & Reliability

• Oversee the architecture of distributed systems and cloud-native applications to support scalability, availability, and performance.
• Drive reliability targets, including 99.9% uptime and low time-to-first-token (TTFT) latency for applicable AI applications.
• Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers to design resilient systems, including fallback mechanisms for model API failures, timeouts, and rate limits.
• Establish engineering standards for code reviews, observability, automated integration testing, and security compliance.
• Ensure production systems meet defined service-level objectives (SLOs) and performance benchmarks.

4. Engineering Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and develop Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and delivery expectations.
• Build a high-performance engineering culture focused on technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, assess, and hire strong software engineering and AI talent.
• Align engineering resources with business priorities, delivery commitments, and technical requirements.
• Address performance and execution challenges while maintaining team engagement and engineering quality.

Success Metrics: First 90 Days

First 30 Days

• Assess existing engineering workflows, delivery pipelines, and release processes.
• Establish baseline AI evaluation criteria and identify gaps in production quality.
• Take ownership of engineering delivery across teams and align expectations with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads.

First 60 Days

• Implement automated AI evaluation frameworks and establish measurable quality benchmarks.
• Improve cross-team coordination and resolve key delivery dependencies.
• Establish consistent sprint planning, release cadences, and delivery reporting.

First 90 Days

• Achieve at least 85% sprint commitment completion.
• Demonstrate measurable reductions in production AI quality regressions.
• Improve system reliability and stabilize latency against defined performance targets.
• Establish clear accountability and predictable delivery practices across engineering teams.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 14+ years in software engineering, including at least 5 years managing Engineering Managers or Tech Leads in enterprise or high-growth environments.
• AI/ML Expertise: Hands-on experience delivering AI-powered systems involving LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, prompt engineering, or model fine-tuning workflows.
• Engineering Delivery: Proven ability to lead multiple engineering teams and deliver complex technical initiatives from design through production launch.
• System Architecture: Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native backend infrastructure, and scalable APIs across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• AI Quality & Reliability: Understanding of AI evaluation frameworks, production monitoring, hallucination mitigation, guardrails, and system reliability.
• Delivery Management: Strong experience with Agile methodologies, CI/CD, release planning, and engineering performance metrics.
• Leadership: Ability to establish accountability, manage competing priorities, and deliver against ambitious deadlines without compromising quality or team morale.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will establish predictable engineering delivery, improve the quality and reliability of production AI systems, and build a culture of ownership across engineering teams. They will combine technical judgment with execution-focused leadership to ensure AI solutions are delivered on schedule, operate reliably, and meet enterprise expectations.

If you are passionate about building high-performing engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions at scale, we would like to hear from you.

Looking for an Architect with strong experience in AI and Data Engineering, preferably with hands-on experience in Generative AI (GenAI). Candidates with experience in any cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be considered, 

Experience: 5+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced GCP Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience in data engineering and strong hands-on expertise in Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Airflow/Cloud Composer, Python, and Vertex AI. The candidate should be capable of designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data solutions on Google Cloud Platform.

Key Skills – Mandatory

• BigQuery – Strong hands-on experience in data warehousing, SQL, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Google Cloud Storage (GCS) – Experience with data storage, file management, and integration with data pipelines.
• Airflow / Cloud Composer – Experience in developing, scheduling, monitoring, and managing data workflows.
• Python – Strong programming skills for data engineering, ETL/ELT development, automation, and pipeline implementation.
• Vertex AI – Experience working with ML/AI workflows, model integration, or data pipelines supporting AI/ML solutions.

Good to Have / Added Advantage

• Dataproc – Experience with distributed data processing and Spark-based workloads.
• Cloud Data Fusion – Experience in building and managing data integration pipelines.
• Cloud Run – Understanding of deploying and running containerized applications/services on GCP.
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and data pipeline development.
• Knowledge of GCP data architecture and cloud-native services.
• Experience in data quality, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable GCP-based data pipelines.
• Build and optimize data solutions using BigQuery and Cloud Storage.
• Develop and manage workflows using Airflow / Cloud Composer.
• Write efficient and reusable Python code for data processing and automation.
• Support Vertex AI integrations and AI/ML data workflows.
• Monitor pipeline performance and troubleshoot data processing issues.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
• Implement best practices for data security, quality, scalability, and performance.

You must have :

• 5+ years of overall experience in Data Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with BigQuery, GCS, Airflow/Cloud Composer, Python, and Vertex AI.
• Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, and cloud technologies.
• Dataproc, Data Fusion, and Cloud Run experience will be an added advantage.

AI Architect – Enterprise AI & Generative AI ( Remote) - Contractual

Experience: 8+ years

Location: Remote, India

Employment Type: Contractual

Working Hours: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM IST

Client Engagement: US-based client

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on, client-facing AI Architect to lead the architecture, technical direction, and production implementation of enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions for a US-based client.

You should combine strong software engineering and cloud architecture fundamentals with practical experience building secure, scalable, and reliable AI applications. This role involves end-to-end technical ownership, from solution design and prototyping to production deployment and optimization. It is not a research-only, advisory-only, or prompt-writing position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of AI/ML and Generative AI solutions, from discovery and proof of concept to production rollout.
• Design LLM-powered applications using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, AI agents, and orchestration frameworks.
• Define data ingestion, chunking, retrieval, grounding, evaluation, and knowledge-refresh strategies.
• Select appropriate AI models and platforms based on quality, latency, cost, security, and operational requirements.
• Design cloud-native architectures, APIs, integrations, identity controls, monitoring, and resilient deployment patterns.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical designs, implementation roadmaps, and technical standards.
• Implement AI quality and safety measures, including hallucination mitigation, guardrails, access controls, and prompt-injection defenses.
• Guide engineering, data, ML, and DevOps teams through implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and go-live readiness.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews with US client stakeholders.
• Establish production monitoring, CI/CD, versioning, incident handling, and performance and cost optimization practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, or technology architecture.
• Proven experience personally architecting and deploying at least one enterprise-grade AI or Generative AI solution into production.
• Strong practical knowledge of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and model evaluation.
• Hands-on experience with Python and APIs, including prototyping, code review, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Understanding of data pipelines, SQL/NoSQL databases, containers, CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps.
• Knowledge of enterprise security, privacy, identity and access management, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience independently leading architecture workshops, design reviews, and technical discussions with US clients.
• Excellent written and spoken English, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Availability to work from 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST and willingness to accept a contractual engagement.

Preferred Experience

• Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI.
• Azure AI Search or equivalent retrieval tools.
• LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, and agent/tool orchestration.
• Model fine-tuning, predictive ML, document intelligence, multimodal AI, or real-time AI applications.
• Experience in cloud modernization, enterprise integrations, data analytics, or technology consulting.
• Relevant AI/cloud architecture certifications and experience mentoring technical teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Designing secure, scalable, production-ready AI solutions rather than demos or conceptual presentations.
• Making sound technical decisions around feasibility, performance, reliability, cost, and AI risks.
• Taking ownership of architecture decisions and resolving technical blockers with limited supervision.
• Building trust with senior US stakeholders and collaborating effectively with India-based delivery teams.

Contract Details

• Initial engagement: Minimum 3 months, with extension subject to project requirements and performance.
• Working schedule: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM IST.
• Potential permanent employment: After 18 months, the client may consider direct permanent employment at its sole discretion. Conversion is not guaranteed.

Mandatory Screening Criteria

Candidates should be able to:

• Explain an enterprise AI/GenAI solution they personally architected and deployed, including architecture, scale, evaluation, and business impact.
• Whiteboard an enterprise RAG or agentic solution covering data flow, security, authentication, authorization, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Discuss real-world model-quality issues, hallucinations, privacy risks, incidents, and architectural trade-offs.
• Lead a technical design review with US client stakeholders.
• Confirm acceptance of the working hours and contractual engagement.

Apply only if you have hands-on experience architecting and deploying enterprise AI/GenAI solutions in production.