Principal Azure & AI Architect (Hands-On) — Player-Coach Role? Role Snapshot (At a Glance)ParameterDetailsJob TitlePrincipal Azure & AI Architect (Hands-On)Location100% Remote — Anywhere in IndiaWork ModePermanent Work From Home (WFH)Experience11+ Years (Hands-On Mandatory)CompensationUp to ₹27 LPA (Negotiable for Superstars)Employment TypeFull-TimeReporting ToCTO / VP of EngineeringTeam SizeLead a pod of 4–8 engineers (Player-Coach Model)Notice PeriodImmediate to 30 Days Preferred? What You'll Actually Do (The 70/30 Split)

70% → Writing production code, building POCs, debugging complex systems

30% → Architecture design, mentoring engineers, stakeholder engagement

This is NOT a delegation role. You will commit code to the main branch daily. You will debug production issues. You will ship.

? Core Responsibilities (The Main Points)1️⃣ Hands-On Engineering (35%)

• Write production-grade code daily in Python, C#, .NET Core, or Go
• Build microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL, gRPC services
• Develop serverless functions (Azure Functions) & event-driven workloads




• Implement async patterns — message queues, event streams
• Refactor legacy monoliths → cloud-native microservices
• Maintain 80%+ test coverage (pytest, xUnit, NUnit)
• Debug using OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, distributed tracing

2️⃣ AI & ML Engineering (25%)

• Design RAG pipelines using Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex
• Build document ingestion — PDF parsing, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing
• Implement semantic search (Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Milvus, pgvector)
• Fine-tune LLMs (Llama 3, Mistral, Falcon) using LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT
• Build AI agents (Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI)
• Deploy ML models on Azure ML — MLOps, model registry, drift monitoring
• Build ETL/ELT pipelines (Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark)

3️⃣ Cloud Architecture (15%)

• Design multi-tier, cloud-native architectures on Azure
• Architect HA/DR systems with multi-region failover
• Implement Zero Trust security

📌 Principal Azure (India)
🏢 Logic Hire Solutions
📍 India