xTag Services
Principal AI Architect
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad; Chennai; Bangalore; Pune
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Full description
Role : Principal AI Architect
We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Principal AI Architect to design, lead, and implement enterprise-scale AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in building scalable AI platforms using Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-native ecosystems, along with hands-on experience in Feature Engineering, RAG, LLMs, and Agentic AI architectures.
Key Responsibilities : AI/ML and GenAI Architecture :
- Define end-to-end architecture for AI/ML and Generative AI systems.
- Design scalable Lakehouse-based AI platforms using Databricks and Snowflake.
- Architect solutions supporting batch and real-time inference workloads.
- Design enterprise-grade LLM, RAG, and Agentic AI applications.
- Establish architectural standards, best practices, and reusable AI frameworks.
RAG, LLM and Agentic AI :
- Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures using vector databases and knowledge pipelines.
- Architect intelligent AI agents for automation, orchestration, and decision-making workflows.
- Evaluate and integrate LLMs such as OpenAI and LLaMA.
- Optimize prompt engineering, embeddings, context management, scalability, accuracy, and cost.
- Develop enterprise-ready GenAI solutions.
Data and Feature Engineering :
- Design robust data pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
- Lead feature engineering strategies for ML and AI models.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to build high-performance data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
- Implement data governance, lineage, and data quality frameworks.
Cloud and AI Platform Architecture :
- Architect AI solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Design cloud-native and microservices-based AI systems.
- Leverage Docker and Kubernetes for scalable AI deployments.
- Implement MLOps and LLMOps best practices for CI/CD, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
Technical Leadership and Innovation :
- Conduct Proof of Concepts to validate architectural approaches and design decisions.
- Analyze existing product architecture and recommend AI-driven enhancements.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to AI, Data Science, and Engineering teams.
- Identify emerging AI and GenAI trends and enterprise adoption opportunities.