Principal Solution Architect - Presales at A PE backed , fast growing AI first product engineering firm · Pune · 15 - 20 years · ₹45L - ₹60L / yr · Posted 16 Sep 2026

Principal Solution Architect - Presales
at A PE backed , fast growing AI first product engineering firm
Overview:
We are looking for a Principal Architect for a Private Equity backed, fast growing AI First Product Engineering Services firm.
This role will be a key member of the core leadership team of the firm.
He/ She will serve as a strategic technical leader, solution designer, and customer advisor. In this role, you will combine deep and broad-based technical expertise with strong business acumen to architect high-value solutions, lead pre-sales engagements, and mentor our practice/CoE team. You will work closely with customers to understand their business needs, translate them into scalable technical solutions, and guide delivery teams in successful implementation.
Responsibilities:
1. Solutioning & Pre-Sales
● Engage with customers, understand their business context, and guide them through a discovery and design process leading to a proposed solution
● Work with sales teams to develop winning proposals, RFP responses, and technical presentations.
● Will need to take single point ownership of the pre sales process, including client interactions, proposal preparation, presentations, pricing etc
● Drive proof-of-concepts as part of the pre sales process
● Build frameworks for different kinds of proposals and presentations to bring in repeatability and efficiency in the process
● Work closely with marketing to create content around Indexnine offerings, solutions, capabilities and case studies
2. Delivery
● Provide technical oversight during project delivery, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and best practices and ensure the as-sold solution is realised
● Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders (CXO level and technical leads). Will need to engage with Customers through delivery as required
● Create points of view on accounts to help mine and grow accounts.
3. Practice & CoE Development
● Work closely with the labs. Contribute to the development of new products/ accelerators.
● Mentor and coach engineers to enhance their technical and customer engagement skills.
4. Thought leadership
● Keep abreast of technology and produce points of view for Indexnine’s offerings and technical capabilities
● Represent the company at industry forums, webinars, and client workshops.
● Be able to independently conduct discovery and solutioning workshops with Customers
Skills/Qualifications:
● 15+ years of overall experience with a blend of architecting, pre sales and technical delivery
● Should be leading a pre-sales unit in a services organization. Hands-on with designing solutions, proposal writing, estimation, pricing and customer presentations.
● Broad based technical expertise and having played a Sr Architect role for at least 2 years
● Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
● Experience working in an IT services environment in the Product Engineering space (i.e designing and building bespoke products/solutions)
● BE/ Masters degree

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The Principal Architect leads Byteridge’s Technology Strategy & Solutions Group (TSS). This is a senior, visible role responsible for defining technology point-of-view, shaping solution narratives, guiding enterprise conversations, and influencing revenue through differentiated thinking.
The Architect owns thought leadership, reference architectures, solution accelerators, and selective engagement on high-impact deals.
Key Responsibilities
- Own, enhance & execute Byteridge’s technology strategy across priority areas (Cloud, Data, Gen AI, Modernization).
- Create and maintain enterprise-grade reference architectures, solution blueprints, PoCs and accelerators.
- Lead strategic discovery workshops and executive-level solutioning for priority opportunities.
- Partner with Content Marketing to translate technical POVs into blogs, whitepapers, decks, webinars, and sales narratives.
- Enable the Enterprise Account Executive with differentiated solution stories and technical credibility.
- Build strong partnerships with Byteridge delivery teams to identify high-impact solutions and projects that can be leveraged as compelling capability showcases for existing customers and prospective clients.
- Work with Delivery Team Architects to influence delivery standards and architectural consistency across teams.
- Research market and industry trends across technologies, popular enterprise solutions, and buyer adoption patterns. Go deep into selected domains and verticals to continuously refine Byteridge’s technology strategy, solution approaches, and positioning.
- Act as a visible external voice through talks, webinars, and published content.
Ideal Profile
- 13–20 years of experience across technology architecture, solutioning, or technology consulting roles.
- Demonstrated ability to research and synthesize market trends, emerging technologies, and popular enterprise solutions.
- Experience developing deep expertise in specific domains or industry verticals and translating that into solution strategies.
- Strong background in modern software engineering, cloud platforms, data, AI, and enterprise systems.
- Proven track record of influencing client decisions and shaping solution direction, not just designing systems.
- Comfortable working at the intersection of technology, business strategy, marketing, and sales.
- Excellent communication skills with executive presence and the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly.
Success Metrics (KPIs)
- Quarterly technology and market POVs produced and adopted internally or externally.
- Creation and reuse of reference architectures, solution frameworks, and accelerators across deals.
- Number of high-impact delivery projects converted into capability showcases and sales assets.
- Influence on strategic opportunities, measured through deal quality, size, and AE feedback.
- Thought leadership visibility through blogs, webinars, talks, or industry participation.
- Internal adoption of architectural standards and solution approaches by delivery teams.
AI Solution Architect
Experience: 12+ Years
Location: Coimbatore / Hybrid
Joining: Immediate / Within 30 Days
Primary Skills: Enterprise Architecture, Python, REST APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Enterprise Data Architecture, Integration Patterns.
Preferred Skills: LLM Integrations, RAG Pipelines, AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering, LangChain/LlamaIndex, LLMOps, Multi-Agent Orchestration.
About the Role
At Techjays, we're helping companies reimagine how they build, operate, and scale with AI at the core. We focus on building secure, scalable, production-grade AI systems that solve real business problems and deliver measurable outcomes.
We're looking for an AI Solution Architect who can own enterprise-level solution architecture end-to-end. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with the ability to understand complex business challenges, engage with prospective clients, and design compelling, scalable, AI-native solutions.
This is a senior technical role at the intersection of enterprise architecture, pre-sales, solutioning, and delivery governance. You'll collaborate with leadership, engineering teams, and clients to architect solutions spanning AI integrations, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise platforms.
This role requires a strong technical background and current hands-on expertise. Candidates with purely pre-sales experience or non-technical solutioning backgrounds will not be a fit.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end enterprise architecture for AI-native platforms, defining high-level and low-level designs across backend systems, data platforms, and AI components.
- Lead solutioning for complex enterprise engagements, translating client requirements into technically sound, secure, scalable, and commercially viable architectures.
- Define reference architectures and design standards for LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, MCP-based integrations, and enterprise data platforms.
- Partner with pre-sales and business development teams to prepare RFP responses, technical proposals, solution presentations, and architecture documents.
- Lead client discovery sessions and technical presentations, communicating architectural decisions and trade-offs to technical and executive stakeholders.
- Conduct architecture reviews and technical assessments to ensure scalability
About the Role
We are looking for a Solution Architect with 10–15 years of experience to design scalable, secure, and cloud-ready solutions. The role involves working with customers, Senior Solution Architects, business analysts, project managers, and engineering teams across cloud, modernization, microservices, integration, and digital transformation initiatives.
Must Have Skills
- 10–15 years of experience in software development, architecture, and enterprise application delivery.
- Strong experience with Azure and/or AWS and cloud-native architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Microservices, REST APIs, SOA, and system integration.
- Experience in application modernization and cloud migration.
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to create architecture diagrams, solution designs, and technical documentation.
- Strong analytical, communication, and customer-facing skills.
Good To Have Skills
- AWS/Azure certifications.
- Experience with Serverless, Event-Driven Architecture, Messaging, and API Management.
- Exposure to SaaS / Multi-Tenant Architecture.
- Knowledge of Generative AI and AI-enabled solutions.
- Experience with pre-sales, POCs, estimations, and technical proposals.
- Exposure to application security and compliance.
- Experience working with global customers and distributed teams.
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end solutions and independently own defined architecture workstreams.
- Translate business and technical requirements into application, cloud, integration, and deployment designs.
- Define microservice, API, integration, and data-flow architectures.
- Guide engineering teams on architecture implementation and conduct design/code reviews.
- Contribute to cloud migration, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Participate in customer workshops, technical discussions, POCs, and solution demonstrations.
- Identify and address architectural, performance, security, and technical risks.
- Ensure solutions follow defined architecture, security, and engineering standards.
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Next
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Experience: 10–15 Years
About the Role
At Twenty20 Systems, we are looking for a Solution Architect – Integration (Pre-Sales & Delivery) who can bridge the gap between business, technology, and client success.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong integration architecture expertise with client-facing consulting, solutioning, and delivery leadership. You will play a key role in shaping client solutions, driving technical discussions, building scalable architectures, and ensuring successful delivery of enterprise integration programs.
This is a role for someone who enjoys owning the solution end-to-end — from pre-sales conversations to delivery execution.
What You’ll Do
- Lead solution architecture and technical consulting for enterprise integration opportunities.
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- Drive pre-sales activities including solutioning, technical proposals, architecture diagrams, effort estimation, and client presentations.
- Design and review API-led, event-driven, and iPaaS-based integration architectures across enterprise applications.
- Support delivery teams in ensuring architecture alignment, best practices, and successful implementation.
- Provide technical leadership across integration design, troubleshooting, governance, and production support.
- Partner with clients and internal stakeholders to solve business challenges through integration-led digital transformation.
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- Understand our product, integration ecosystem, and customer requirements.
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- Driving architecture best practices and reusable integration frameworks.
- Contributing to business growth by enabling stronger technical solutioning and client confidence.
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- AI & Data Architecture: Define architectures for customer data platforms, identity and profile management, data ingestion, governance, personalization, journey orchestration, and AI-powered experiences.
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- Experience designing and integrating AI-powered solutions, with knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, and model evaluation.
- Understanding of agentic workflows, tool-using agents, and enterprise AI governance, observability, and reliability.
- Experience working with software engineers, application developers, data architects, and data science/ML teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Ability to translate business requirements and strategic vision into technical architectures and implementation roadmaps.
- Strong stakeholder management, leadership, presentation, and communication skills, including experience engaging with senior executives.
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- Previous experience with other digital marketing and customer experience platforms.
- Experience with customer data platforms, personalization, omnichannel engagement, and marketing optimization initiatives.
- Experience supporting consulting engagements, presales, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
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Experience: 15+ Years
Location: Pune, India
Employment Type: Full-time
Desired Skills: Python, Technical Architecture, AWS, Microservices, SaaS / Multi-tenant Architecture, Kubernetes, System Design
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The ideal candidate should be passionate about solving complex engineering problems, driving innovation, mentoring development teams, and effectively leveraging AI to accelerate software development.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the overall product architecture and technical roadmap.
- Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.
- Lead the design and implementation of new product features from concept to production.
- Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical product components.
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- Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software development, code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity.
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- 15+ years of software product engineering experience with at least 5 years in a Technical Architect role.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks.
- Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
- Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
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- Experience with scalable SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, and secure application design.
- Excellent understanding of software design patterns, performance tuning, observability, and system reliability.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Senior Salesforce Architect
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⚠️ Mandatory Certification
A valid Salesforce Solution Architect / Application Architect certification is mandatory. Candidates without this certification will not be considered.
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- Participate in business and technical discovery sessions with stakeholders across organizations.
- Understand and document current-state customer success processes, workflows, data structures, and Salesforce platform usage.
- Assess existing Salesforce environments, including:
- Salesforce data model and objects
- Configuration and customization
- Workflows and automation
- Business rules
- Roles, profiles, permissions, and security
- Enterprise integrations
- Data quality, duplication, and dependencies
- Custom applications and components
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- Identify Salesforce capabilities supporting the future-state operating model.
- Evaluate gaps between current Salesforce capabilities and business requirements.
- Provide recommendations covering platform fit, configuration vs. customization, data migration, integrations, and target-state architecture.
- Contribute to future-state design and Design Blueprint.
- Identify data migration considerations including mapping, data quality, historical data, transformation requirements, and dependencies.
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- Collaborate with Salesforce, ServiceNow, JSM, data migration, and business transformation teams.
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- Support enterprise application consolidation, platform rationalization, and transformation initiatives.
Required Skills & Experience
- 9+ years of Salesforce experience
- Strong Salesforce consulting, solution design, architecture, or platform assessment experience.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and platform capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of:
- Salesforce Data Model
- Configuration & Customization
- Automation
- Security
- Roles, Profiles & Permissions
- Integrations
- Hands-on Salesforce architecture and solution design experience.
- Enterprise-scale Salesforce discovery and assessment experience.
- Ability to translate business requirements into Salesforce capabilities and solution options.
- Strong understanding of data migration and data integration.
- Experience assessing complex Salesforce environments with significant customization and integration footprints.
- Experience with enterprise application consolidation, platform rationalization, or technology transformation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in multi-platform environments involving Salesforce, ServiceNow, Atlassian/Jira Service Management, and data migration teams.
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- Platform Developer
- Platform App Builder
- Sales Cloud Consultant
- Service Cloud Consultant
- Application Architect
- System Architect
- Service Cloud
- Salesforce Data Cloud
- ServiceNow
- Atlassian / Jira Service Management
- Salesforce data migration
- M&A integration
- Post-acquisition technology consolidation
- Large-scale operating model and technology transformation
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Salesforce Architecture | Solution Design | Enterprise Salesforce Assessment | Salesforce Discovery | Data Model & Data Analysis | Configuration & Customization | Automation & Workflows | Security & Access Management | Integration Architecture | Data Migration | Platform Rationalization | Enterprise Application Consolidation | Business Process Analysis | Target-State Architecture
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Antier Solutions is looking for a technically strong AI Solution Architect to drive the architecture, design, and technical execution of AI-powered solutions.
The role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural ownership, and the ability to guide engineering teams in building scalable, production-ready AI systems. The individual will evaluate business problems, define technical approaches, make architecture decisions, and work closely with developers and stakeholders to translate ideas into working solutions.
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- Design solutions involving RAG, AI agents, workflow automation, APIs, databases, and enterprise integrations.
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- Provide architectural direction and technical guidance to AI engineers and developers.
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3. Production Readiness & Quality
- Design solutions with appropriate authentication, access controls, logging, monitoring, testing, and evaluation mechanisms.
- Address AI-specific challenges such as hallucinations, retrieval quality, model selection, latency, reliability, and inference costs.
- Define appropriate human oversight and validation mechanisms for sensitive or consequential workflows.
- Guide deployment decisions across suitable cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
4. Business Alignment & Delivery Ownership
- Understand business requirements and translate them into implementable technical solutions.
- Work with stakeholders to establish scope, dependencies, estimates, resource requirements, and delivery milestones.
- Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to move solutions from proof of concept to production.
- Balance rapid execution with architectural quality, maintainability, and commercial feasibility.
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to business and technical stakeholders.
Required Skills & Experience
- B.Tech, BE, MCA, MSc, or equivalent technical qualification in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of overall experience in software engineering, AI engineering, solution architecture, or related technical roles.
- Strong hands-on experience building AI/ML or Generative AI applications, with demonstrated responsibility for architecture and implementation decisions.
- Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic AI systems, tool calling, orchestration, and AI-driven automation.
- Experience with Python and relevant AI frameworks, libraries, and integration technologies.
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, data pipelines, distributed systems, and application architecture.
- Experience evaluating AI solutions for accuracy, reliability, performance, security, and cost.
- Ability to guide developers, review technical approaches, resolve complex problems, and establish reusable engineering practices.
- Experience deploying or supporting AI applications in production environments.
- Strong analytical, communication, and technical decision-making skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience architecting multi-agent systems or complex AI automation workflows.
- Exposure to cloud platforms, containerization, CI/CD, observability, and scalable AI infrastructure.
- Experience mentoring engineering teams and introducing new AI development practices.
- Experience with enterprise AI deployments, international clients, or technically complex business environments.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- We are looking for an individual who can independently own technical architecture, guide engineering teams, and make sound implementation decisions. The candidate should combine hands-on AI expertise with the ability to turn business requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.
- Candidates whose experience is limited to AI research, business analysis, project coordination, or pre-sales documentation without meaningful technical implementation and architecture ownership may not be suitable.

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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.












