Technical Architect AI & Innovation Lab- Senior Manager / AVP

Sector: Leading Financial Markets Infrastructure Organisation

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 812 years

Role Overview

We are seeking a visionary Technical Architect to anchor our Innovation Lab, spearheading nextgeneration AI and cloud capabilities for India’s financial markets. This role demands a proven technology leader with handson expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and AI platform engineering within regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Architect and scale productiongrade AI solutions for missioncritical financial systems.
- Lead design and deployment of distributed systems, microservices, eventdriven architectures, and APIs.
- Establish and mature Innovation Lab / CoE frameworks within regulated financial institutions.
- Drive adoption of LLM architectures, RAG pipelines, agentic orchestration, model gateways, and guardrails.
- Engineer secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure across sovereign cloud and onpremise environments.




- Partner with crossfunctional stakeholders to deliver innovation aligned with market infrastructure needs.

NonNegotiable Requirements

- Education: BE/BTech/MCA in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, or related discipline.
- Experience: 8–12 years in software engineering, including:
- 3+ years architecting and scaling AI solutions as Tech Lead/Architect.
- 5+ years in distributed systems, microservices, APIs.
- 3+ years in cloud architecture with Kubernetes & Terraform.
- Proven expertise in AI platform engineering, GPU infrastructure, sovereign cloud/onpremise environments.
- Prior experience setting up Innovation Labs, CoEs, or greenfield tech units in banks, exchanges, clearing houses, depositories, or large NBFCs.
- Robust depth in regulated environment architecture and security.
- Handson proficiency with:
- Languages/Frameworks: Python, FastAPI
- Containers/Orchestration: Docker/Podman, Kubernetes
- IaC: Terraform
- Databases: PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Kafka, graph & vector databases

Interested candidates may share their CVs at: [email protected]

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