Data / Retrieval Engineer

Position: Senior Individual Contributor

Experience: 7+ years

Domain: RAG, Enterprise Search, Data Readiness and Retrieval Quality

Openings: 1

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data / Retrieval Engineer to design, build and operate enterprise-grade data ingestion and retrieval capabilities for AI agents and knowledge-search platforms.

The role will focus on transforming enterprise business knowledge into secure, trustworthy and citation-backed context. The engineer will be responsible for improving retrieval quality, grounding, data readiness, latency and operational cost across Retrieval-Augmented Generation and enterprise-search solutions.

Key Responsibilities
- Own the data ingestion and retrieval ecosystem supporting enterprise AI agents.
- Design and build scalable ingestion pipelines for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
- Develop indexing solutions using:
- Vector retrieval
- Keyword search
- Hybrid retrieval
- Semantic search
- Implement document chunking, embedding generation,



metadata enrichment and indexing strategies.
- Build reranking, grounding and citation-generation mechanisms to improve response accuracy and traceability.
- Convert business documents and knowledge assets into reliable, contextual and reusable data products.
- Implement access-aware retrieval based on users, roles, entitlements and source-system permissions.
- Apply metadata filtering, document lineage, freshness controls and source-level traceability.
- Establish appropriate controls for:
- Personally Identifiable Information
- Sensitive and confidential data
- Data retention
- Security and governance evidence
- Partner with AI-agent, MCP, application and platform engineers to improve retrieval relevance, grounding, latency and infrastructure cost.
- Create retrieval evaluation datasets, including representative queries, expected sources and relevance labels.
- Define and monitor retrieval-quality metrics such as REMAIL_AD

📌 Data / Retrieval Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 NTT DATA Business Solutions
📍 Hyderabad