Principal Architect, AI Solutions

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Principal Architect, AI Solutions in India.

This senior technical leadership role focuses on shaping the future of AI-enabled products, platforms, and enterprise engineering capabilities at scale. You will define architectural direction for advanced AI solutions, including LLM-based systems, agentic workflows, and AI orchestration across business units. Acting as a key advisor to product and engineering leaders, you will help design scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures aligned with enterprise standards. The role combines strategic influence with hands-on architectural leadership, ensuring responsible AI adoption across the organization. You will evaluate emerging AI technologies and guide their integration into real-world production environments. This is a highly visible role that directly impacts platform modernization, engineering excellence, and AI-driven transformation.

• Lead architecture design for strategic AI initiatives across enterprise products, platforms, and shared capabilities.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, and engineering groups to define scalable, secure, and high-performance AI solution architectures.
• Establish and evolve enterprise architecture standards, reference models, and guardrails for AI systems and AI-enabled development practices.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and define adoption strategies for tools, frameworks, and platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance for LLM-based applications, agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and observability systems.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance, resilience, and maintainability.
• Support engineering teams in adopting AI-powered software development practices across the product lifecycle.
• Lead architecture reviews, contribute to technical strategy discussions, and influence investment decisions in AI and platform modernization.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while contributing to the overall architecture maturity of the organization.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions in production environments.
• Deep expertise in modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM applications, retrieval-augmented systems, and agent-based workflows.
• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, data engineering, integration, and security architecture.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture standards, reusable patterns, and governance frameworks across multiple teams.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills, able to adapt messaging from technical teams to executive leadership.
• Strong balance of innovation mindset, risk awareness, and long-term architectural thinking.
• Experience in AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, and secure AI deployment practices (preferred).
• Familiarity with cloud AI platforms, vector databases, observability tools, and AI operations (preferred).
• Experience mentoring architects or leading architecture communities (preferred).

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation aligned with senior architecture leadership roles.
• Fully remote work flexibility within India.
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale AI strategy and architecture direction.
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and large-scale platform modernization initiatives.
• Strong learning and career development opportunities in AI, architecture, and leadership.
• Inclusive and collaborative global work environment.
• Participation in high-impact, strategic decision-making at enterprise level.