Data & AI Architect
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- Ahmedabad, Gujarat
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define, own and evolve the Data & AI architecture across the organization, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational clarity for product and platform engineering teams.
- Design architecture patterns for integrating AI services into existing applications (request/response flows), including guidance on service boundaries, performance, and operational readiness.
- Architect scalable data platforms and pipelines supporting batch and real-time needs for analytics and AI workloads.
- Build a strong data foundation for ML/GenAI and future agents, including data modeling/standardization and transforming data into model- and agent-ready formats.
- Lead cloud data strategy and recommend approaches that improve governance, cost, and operational consistency over time.
- Define best practices for AI/ML and GenAI system architecture, including:
- RAG and knowledge ingestion architecturesevaluation and regression testing approaches (offline/online)o guardrails, safety, and risk mitigation patternso tuning strategies (prompt/RAG optimization, fine-tuning/adapters where applicable)
- Establish and enforce data governance: data quality standards, lineage, metadata practices, observability, and documentation.
- Design and validate security architecture for data and AI systems: RBAC, least privilege, secrets management, audit logging, encryption, and secure access patterns for enterprise customers (including US and EU needs).
- Collaborate with software architects and engineering leaders through architecture reviews, technical standards, and optimization recommendations (storage, performance, cost).
- Create and maintain reference architectures, templates, and decision records, mentor engineers on implementation best practices.
- 7+ years of experience in data architecture / data engineering / platform architecture, including hands-on experience enabling production AI/ML workloads.
- Strong experience with Azure data and AI services (e.g., Azure data storage, orchestration, analytics, Azure ML / GenAI services where applicable).
- Hands-on expertise designing modern data architectures (lake/lakehouse concepts, ETL/ELT, event-driven patterns where relevant).
- Strong understanding of AI/ML and GenAI system design and operational concerns (evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, tuning approaches).
- Demonstrated experience implementing data governance, security, and compliance-aligned controls in enterprise environments.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python with the ability to validate architectural approaches through prototypes and technical deep-dives.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills—able to align engineering teams and architects on decisions and standards.
- Experience with OCI services (data/AI) and/or multi-cloud architecture exposure.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a rapidly growing organisation.
- Exposure to working with a Microsoft gold partner organization with the latest technologies.
- People first organisation culture
- Company Paid Group Mediclaim Insurance for employee, spouse and up to 2 Kids of INR 400,000 per annum
- Company Paid Group Personal accidental insurance for employees of INR 1,000,000 per annum.
- Company Paid & Manager approved Career Advancement Opportunities
- Best in the Industry referral bonus policy.
- 29 Paid leaves throughout the year
- Company-paid Maternity leaves for female employees