Experience: 12+years
Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore
Notice period : Immediate to 60days

The Role
We are hiring an Architect, AI, Data Science & Data Engineering to set the technical direction for one of our most strategic practices. This is a player-coach leadership role spanning engineering leadership, AI and data science, and data engineering. You will own the technical vision, the architecture, and the health of the teams that execute it
You will set technical direction across complex problems, grow and mentor a multidisciplinary team of engineers and architects, and stay close enough to the technology to earn the trust of the people you lead
What You'll Own
Engineering leadership
- Set the technical vision and architecture for the practice's hardest, most novel problems
- Operate as a hands-on technical authority in design reviews and the deepest architectural decisions
- Define contemporary, cloud-native and AI-native reference architectures that the team can build on

AI / ML & Data
- Lead the practice's generative, agentic,



and ML capabilities — from data foundations through modeling and evaluation
- Architect AI-ready data platforms: cloud-native pipelines, lineage and observability, governance, and metadata management at enterprise scale
- Establish responsible-AI and evaluation practices so solutions are reliable, measurable, and trustworthy

R&D; & exploring new ideas
- Drive an active R&D; agenda — exploring emerging AI techniques, tools, and architectures ahead of the market
- Prototype complex, ambitious ideas quickly to test feasibility and prove value
- Create space for the team to experiment, learn, and turn research into practical capability

Customer & client conversations
- Engage directly with customers and clients as the senior technical voice — discovery, framing problems, and shaping what's possible
- Translate client needs into technical direction, and technical possibility into language executives understand
- Build trusted technical relationships

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