Technical Architect AI & Innovation Lab - Senior Manager / AVP

Sector : Leading Financial Markets Infrastructure Organisation

Location : Mumbai

Experience : 8 - 12 years

Role Overview :

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

Key Responsibilities :

- Architect and scale production-grade AI solutions for mission-critical financial systems.
- Lead design and deployment of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven 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 on-premise environments.




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

Non-Negotiable 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/on-premise 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.

Tech Stack :

- Languages/Frameworks : Python, FastAPI
- Containers/Orchestration : Docker/Podman, Kubernetes
- IaC : Terraform
- Databases : PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Kafka, graph & vector databases

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