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

GCP Data Engineering Lead

Experience: 9+ Years

Lead Experience: 2+ Years

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Key Skills:

• Strong experience in GCP Data Engineering and BigQuery
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Exadata / PL-SQL
• Strong knowledge of PySpark / Scala and Python
• Experience with GoldenGate, Kafka and CDC
• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow
• Good experience in CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Exposure to AI/LLM technologies and GenAI solutions
• Strong understanding of data architecture, ETL/ELT and data pipelines

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable GCP data engineering solutions.
• Design and implement batch and real-time data pipelines using BigQuery, PySpark, Kafka/CDC and Airflow.
• Work with Oracle Exadata/PL-SQL and GoldenGate for data integration and migration.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
• Explore and integrate AI/LLM capabilities into data engineering solutions.
• Lead technical discussions, code reviews, solution design and mentor team members.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.

Platform Engineering Lead (For client company)

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 7+ years 

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering teams ship faster with confidence and built-in guardrails.
• Cloud cost, security, and reliability are predictable, measurable, and well-managed.
• CI/CD pipelines are trusted, standardized, and production-ready.
• Platform decisions reduce cognitive load instead of introducing unnecessary process. 

Scope & Expectations

This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture and implementation.

You will:

• Build, not just review.
• Own the platform roadmap—not just infrastructure tickets.
• Act as a force multiplier for product engineering teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.
• Drive platform strategy while remaining deeply involved in execution.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Cloud Architecture

• Own Zoop's platform and cloud architecture across GCP and AWS.
• Design reusable, opinionated platform patterns instead of one-off infrastructure.
• Build and evolve Zoop's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), including:
• Self-service environments
• Golden paths (paved roads)
• Standardized templates
• Built-in engineering guardrails
• Lead Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption at scale.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

CI/CD, Reliability & Developer Experience

• Establish robust CI/CD practices with quality gates and production readiness.
• Improve deployment safety through automation and testing.
• Define and monitor:
• Golden Signals
• SLIs
• SLOs
• Incident response processes
• Reduce operational toil and improve developer productivity.
• Make observability a first-class capability using cost-efficient monitoring systems.
• Build an observability platform that multiple engineering teams can easily integrate into their applications.

Security, Privacy & Compliance

• Build security-by-default into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Lead implementation and continuous compliance for:
• DPDP Act (India)
• ISO 27001:2022
• SOC 2 Type II
• Implement:
• Zero Trust architecture
• Least-privilege access
• Secure data isolation

FinOps & Cloud Optimization

• Make cloud costs transparent and accountable across engineering teams.
• Establish FinOps practices including:
• Budgets
• Cost alerts
• Optimization routines
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions using clear ROI analysis.

AI, Data & MLOps Foundations

• Build secure and scalable foundations for AI and MLOps workloads.
• Define guardrails for AI systems and sensitive data handling.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure strategy with product goals.
• Mentor engineers and guide teams through technical change.
• Balance long-term platform initiatives with practical execution.

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Experience scaling engineering platforms in high-growth or regulated companies.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
• Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem
• Service Mesh technologies
• Policy Engines
• GCP, AWS (Azure exposure is a plus)
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Engineering & Operations

• Strong understanding of SDLC and modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitOps, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools such as:
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• New Relic
• Comfortable reading and contributing to production systems written in:
• Go
• Python
• Node.js

Security & Compliance

• Practical experience implementing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls.
• Strong understanding of:
• Data protection
• Privacy
• Identity and access management
• Security best practices

Mindset

We're looking for someone who is:

• Action-oriented with sound engineering judgment.
• Analytical, cost-conscious, and reliability-focused.
• Collaborative, calm under pressure, and open to feedback.
• Comfortable challenging decisions and explaining trade-offs when necessary.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, identity, or other regulated industries.
• Built Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or shared infrastructure tooling.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

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.

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.

The Data People Shaping Tomorrow | Your Career, Accelerated

You’ve got the skills. The curiosity. The hunger to grow, try new things and make a real impact. We’re a growing global tech consultancy. Some of the world's biggest businesses turn to us to help bring their data, AI, cloud and digital solutions to life.

We’re the home base for talented technologists who want more and are looking to take their career to the next level by having more learning, more variety, more support and more chances to do meaningful work. If that sounds like the kind of place you’d thrive in, keep reading.

What You’ll Do

●GCP Architecture & Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform (GCP 2.0), ensuring high availability and adherence to cloud governance best practices.

●Automation & IaC Excellence: Develop, manage, and automate infrastructure deployments at scale using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

●CI/CD Infrastructure & Tooling: Build, optimize, and support robust CI/CD infrastructure and pipelines using GitLab to streamline provisioning, configuration, and code delivery.

●Cloud Networking & Enterprise Security: Implement and maintain enterprise cloud networking solutions, secure cross-cloud connectivity, and cloud security configurations to safeguard platform operations.

●Operations & Change Governance: Support platform services and enterprise cloud operations, driving troubleshooting, incident resolution, and performance tuning across complex cloud and hybrid environments.

●Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Act as a cloud infrastructure Subject Matter Expert (SME), collaborating with platform engineering, networking, and application teams while mentoring junior engineers.

●Strategic Integrations & Stakeholder Management: Support connectivity and seamless integrations for enterprise core systems (including SAP environments), translating technical cloud architectures into clear, actionable outcomes for business and technical stakeholders.

What We Are Looking For

● 6+ years of high-impact engineering experience architecting, building, and operating enterprise cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

●Deep proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.

●Advanced technical expertise with GitLab, including CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, and repository management.

●Strong foundation in cloud networking and security, including VPC design, enterprise connectivity, routing, and identity management.

●Proven track record in enterprise cloud operations, automation, and infrastructure troubleshooting across complex environments.

●Experience supporting core enterprise integrations, such as SAP or large-scale enterprise applications on cloud platforms.

●Outstanding communication skills with a proven ability to collaborate across platform teams and influence technical and business stakeholders[cite: 2].

What You’ll Get

Your work matters—and so do you. That’s why we back your skills with a structure that supports

your development, celebrates your wins, and helps you keep growing - professionally and

personally.

Growth & Development

●Accelerate your career: Lead delivery across diverse industries and cutting-edge technologies to expand your leadership mindset.

●Access global brands: Engage directly with world-leading businesses and manage relationships at the executive level.

●Proprietary frameworks & accelerators: Use our playbooks and toolkits to fast-track meaningful work and project outcomes.

●Paid Certifications: Stay ahead with certifications across ITIL, PMP, and all major cloud platforms.

Culture & Rewards

●Supportive Leadership: Benefit from senior mentoring and clear pathways into practice leadership or account management.

●360° Progress Reviews: Honest, developmental feedback to fuel your professional growth.

●Guilds & Weekly Training: Learn from peers in communities focused on data, AI, and delivery excellence.

●Hackathons & Innovation Days: Challenge yourself to build cool stuff beyond business as usual.

●Kudos & Recognition: Great work doesn’t go unnoticed, supported by impact-based rewards and incentives.

●Articulate: Master executive communication through our specialized public speaking program.

●Employee Assistance Program: Full-spectrum support for your medical, mental, and personal wellbeing.

●Real Connection: From Friday socials to team-building days, we genuinely enjoy the ride together.

Final Word

If you’re looking for the place where your growth will go into overdrive, where you’ll work with

great humans, get access to cutting-edge tools and genuinely enjoy the ride?

Job Description: Lead - Cloud Engineering (AWS / Azure)

Role Title: Lead - Cloud Engineering

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Domain Focus: Healthcare AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Remote

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead - Cloud Engineering with over 10 years of IT experience to lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and infrastructure teams. In this role, you will oversee end-to-end cloud deployment, multi-cloud migration, and scalable architecture designed to support cutting-edge Generative AI applications in the healthcare technology domain.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in both AWS and Azure, strong hands-on capability in cloud infrastructure, and proven leadership experience driving security, compliance, and team growth.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Migration

• Lead the architecture, design, and execution of cloud migrations, deployments, and modernizations across AWS and Azure environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to ensure scalable, automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Build high-availability, low-latency architectures optimized for data-intensive Generative AI and Machine Learning workloads.

Security & Healthcare Compliance

• Enforce healthcare security standards including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and data governance best practices across all cloud assets.
• Implement Zero-Trust security, Identity Access Management (IAM), data encryption key management, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of DevOps, Cloud, and SRE Engineers.
• Drive Agile workflows, sprint planning, incident response frameworks, and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Software Product teams to align infrastructure with business roadmaps.

Operations & FinOps

• Establish cloud cost optimization strategies (FinOps) to manage computing costs associated with AI models and large-scale data processing.
• Manage monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch) to ensure 99.99% uptime.

Key Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud leadership or lead architect role.
• Cloud Platforms: Advanced hands-on expertise with both AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, EKS, Bedrock, SageMaker) and Azure (e.g., AKS, Azure OpenAI, Blob, Virtual Machines).
• DevOps & IaC: Strong background in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Domain Knowledge: Prior experience building or managing cloud environments within Healthcare, Life Sciences, or HealthTech is strongly preferred.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience supporting cloud infrastructure for machine learning pipelines, LLM deployments, or GPU compute management.
• Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

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.

Job Description: 

Lead regional transformation programs, driving the entire solution architecture lifecycle, 

from conceptualization to execution, with a focus on agile and DevOps practices. 

Accountable for leading the IT Architecture for all projects and programs, focusing on 

innovative business and IT solutions in the insurance domain, such as new-age digital 

platforms, cloud-native applications, AI/ML-powered decision-making, and data-driven 

insights.

Preferred skills  

• Demonstrated expertise in developing cloud-native, microservices-based, and API

driven insurance solutions, leveraging modern architectural patterns and emerging 

technologies such as AI/ML, big data, and IoT. 

• Thorough understanding of common patterns, frameworks, and reference 

architectures for the Insurance domain, with a focus on digital transformation and 

innovation. 

• Proven experience in leading regional transformation programs, driving the adoption 

of agile and DevOps practices. 

• Asia regional experience is an advantage.

Qualifications 

Minimum Bachelor's degree, preferably with a Master's degree in Computer Science, 

Engineering, or a related discipline. 

• 15+ years of IT experience, with a minimum of 7+ years in the insurance industry, 

focusing on the application of emerging technologies.