AI Architect

Location : - Ascendion Office

2nd Floor, Prestige Blue Chip Software Park Tower-1, PRESTIGE BLUE CHIP SOFTWARE PARK, Marigowda Rd, Dairy Colony, Adugodi, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Job Summary:

Role Purpose

Own the technical direction, solution integrity, and day-to-day engineering leadership for ongoing client projects in the Generative AI space. The architect guides cross-functional squads from design through production, ensuring scalable, maintainable, and compliant solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture

Design end-to-end architecture covering React-TypeScript front-ends, FastAPI micro-services, Python business logic, Azure data layers, and OpenAI API integration.
Define interface contracts, event flows, observability standards, and non-functional requirements (quality, security, data residency, performance)

Generative AI

Establish prompt / response validation, abuse mitigation, and PII safeguards for GPT-4o -class models
Benchmark chat completion and Responses API, embedding models and vector index strategies; tune retrieval pipelines for factual accuracy

Technical Leadership

Convert epics to WBS , map to Jira boards, and drive backlog refinement with BAs
Provide hands-on code reviews across UI, API, and data layers; resolve system-wide blockers

Delivery Management

Align sprint goals with contractual milestones, working with Program Director;
Coordinate SIT/UAT, oversee automated regression with Pytest , Jest / Playwright , and CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder Engagement

Present solution trade-offs to client architects and execs; adjudicate scope vs. risk
Mentor 10-15 engineers; run architecture guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions

Minimum Qualifications

12+ years designing and shipping full-stack SaaS or data platforms, with 5 + years in architectural leadership.
Proven production use of LLM-powered features (e.g., RAG, multi-agent orchestration).
Deep expertise in React , TypeScript , FastAPI , Python 3.11+ , asynchronous patterns, and REST/GraphQL.
Hands-on with Azure PaaS (Blob, Functions, ADF, ACR, AKS) and IaC (Bicep/Terraform).
Strong grasp of test automationPytest , Jest , Selenium / Playwright and quality gates.
Familiarity with data modeling, SQL/NoSQL (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB), vector stores, and Delta Lake.
Demonstrated ability to lead distributed teams and interface with C-level stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior work on financial-services analytics or regulatory environments.
Experience hardening Azure OpenAI deployments for enterprise use.
Exposure to Observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) and threat modelling

AI Architect