AI Architect - Principal Lead Architect-Pune location

LTIMindtree hiring for AI Architect - Principal Lead Architect Pune only.

Exp-12 to 18 yrs

Notice period-immediate to 30 days only

Location- Pune

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Azure AI services Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search Azure ML Cognitive Services Deep expertise in RAG architectures LLMs and a broad sound knowledge of Microsoft technologies NET Azure M365 Power Platform DevOps is essential

Azure AI Studio, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Open AI Service

If interested Share me these details along with cv in my email - Richa.Srivastava@ltimindtree.com

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We are seeking a seasoned AI Architect with 15 years of overall technology experience including 5 years in hands on architecture leadership The ideal candidate will drive AI solutions from ideation to implementation lead performance fine tuning actively participate in RFPs and pre sales and architect robust solutions leveraging Azure AI services Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search Azure ML Cognitive Services Deep expertise in RAG architectures LLMs and a broad sound knowledge of Microsoft technologies NET Azure M365 Power Platform DevOps is essential

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Technical Leadership

Own end to end AI solution architecture discovery use case selection PoC pilot production hardening and scale out

Define reference architectures for RAG retriever vector index chunking embeddings ranking orchestration LLM apps agents and multi model pipelines on Azure

Provide technical direction across engineering teams applications data ML platform security ensuring solution integrity and adherence to Microsoft best practices

Lead design reviews threat modeling and governance AIOpsMLOps for reliability performance security and cost

Azure AI Solutioning Delivery

Architect solutions with Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search vector hybrid Azure AI Foundry Cognitive Services Language Speech Vision Prompt FlowSemantic Kernel

Integrate with Azure Functions App Service AKS Event Hub Service Bus Cosmos DBSQL DB Key Vault Private Endpoints VNET and API Management

Translate business outcomes into solution blueprints backlogs epics nonfunctional requirements NFRs and operational runbooks

Drive Responsible AI guardrails content filters safety policies data privacy and compliance

Act as the technical owner and primary architectural contact for customers product managers and delivery leadership

Mentor engineers architects build reusable patterns libraries and accelerators

Lead and contribute to RFPsRFIs solution approach architecture diagrams delivery plan cost effort estimation BoQBoM assumptions risks and win themes

Run customer ideation workshops discovery sessions and executive briefings craft compelling value narratives and differentiators

Required Qualifications

15 years in software solution engineering with 5 years as Architect Lead Principal level

Proven track record driving AI solutions from ideation to implementation in enterprise environments

Expertise in RAG architectures and LLM application design prompting orchestration tool use grounding

Hands on with Azure AI services

• Azure OpenAI Service assistantsLLM APIs prompt engineering costperf controls

• Azure AI Search vector search hybrid retrieval custom scoringreranking

• Azure ML training deployment model registry pipelines

• Cognitive Services Language Speech Vision

Strong performance engineering skills load testing profiling token optimization caching autoscaling GPUCPU sizing and telemetry

RFPPre Sales experience solutioning proposal authoring estimations and customer workshops

Microsoft technologies NETC ASPNET Core Azure PaaS GitHubAzure DevOps Power PlatformM365 SQL ServerCosmos DB API Management Event HubService Bus

Solid grounding in securitycompliance identity Entra ID VNETPE Key Vault encryption data governance Responsible AI practices

Excellent communication stakeholder management and documentation skills