AI Lead / AI Architect

AI Lead / AI Architect

AI Lead / AI Architect with a minimum of 7 years of experience in AI/ML, data science, software engineering, or related fields , including strong hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise AI/ML solutions . Will provide technical leadership for AI initiatives, define AI architecture and solution patterns, and guide AI/ML solutions from business requirements through production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the AI/ML architecture and technical strategy for enterprise AI initiatives.
• Translate business objectives and use cases into scalable, secure, and production-ready AI solutions.
• Lead the design of end-to-end AI architectures , including models, data, APIs, applications, infrastructure, and integration components.
• Evaluate AI/ML technologies, frameworks, platforms, and models and recommend the most appropriate solutions.
• Establish reusable AI architecture patterns, standards, and best practices .
• Define technical approaches for traditional ML, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents.
• Work closely with Business Analysts and Product teams to assess AI use cases, technical feasibility, value, data requirements, and dependencies.
• Guide Data Scientists and AI/ML Engineers in model development, experimentation, evaluation, and productionization.
• Work with Data Engineers to define data architecture and pipelines required for AI/ML solutions.
• Work with Backend and Frontend teams to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
• Work with DevOps/MLOps teams to establish production deployment architectures across on-premises Kubernetes and cloud environments .
• Define requirements for model serving, inference, scalability, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Establish appropriate approaches for model versioning, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and rollback .
• Ensure AI solutions meet requirements for security, performance, scalability, availability, and maintainability.
• Identify technical risks, architectural constraints, dependencies, and technology gaps.
• Lead technical design reviews and provide guidance on complex AI/ML architecture decisions.
• Ensure AI solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to AI/ML and engineering teams.
• Stay current with developments in Generative AI, LLMs, AI Agents, MLOps, and AI engineering and assess their relevance to the organization.

Generative AI & LLM

• Design architectures for LLM-powered applications and enterprise Generative AI solutions.
• Define appropriate approaches for:
• RAG
• Embeddings
• Vector databases
• Prompt engineering
• LLM orchestration
• AI Agents
• Tool/function calling
• Model routing and selection
• Evaluate commercial and open-source models based on performance, cost, latency, security, and business requirements .
• Design solutions that support multiple LLM providers or models where appropriate.
• Establish approaches for LLM evaluation, monitoring, and quality measurement.
• Address AI-specific concerns such as hallucination, data leakage, prompt injection, access control, and model reliability .
• Guide teams in selecting appropriate frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or similar AI application frameworks .

AI/ML Architecture

• Design end-to-end architectures covering:

Data → ML/AI Model → Model Serving → API → Application → Monitoring

• Define appropriate model development and production environments.
• Establish patterns for real-time and batch inference.
• Define integration patterns for AI/ML models with enterprise applications and APIs.
• Ensure AI solutions can operate across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments .
• Design for scalability and high availability of AI/ML workloads.
• Define appropriate compute requirements, including CPU/GPU resources where applicable.
• Establish architecture patterns for AI/ML observability and monitoring.

MLOps & Productionization

• Define the MLOps architecture and lifecycle for AI/ML solutions.
• Work with DevOps/MLOps teams to implement automated ML/AI deployment pipelines.
• Establish standards for:
• Model versioning
• Model registry
• Experiment tracking
• Model deployment
• Model monitoring
• Model rollback
• Model retraining
• Guide the deployment of models to Kubernetes-based environments .
• Ensure AI/ML solutions can be deployed consistently across development, testing, and production.
• Define requirements for model performance monitoring and detection of data/model drift .
• Support the transition of prototypes and proof-of-concepts into production-grade solutions.

AI Governance & Responsible AI

• Define technical controls for AI security, privacy, governance, and responsible AI .
• Establish appropriate human oversight for AI-powered decisions.