1 day ago
Remote, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.
- Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to create scalable and practical AI architectures.
- Define architecture standards, reference patterns, and technical guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled software development.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns and advise on adoption.
- Provide architectural leadership for agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, observability, and governance.
- Ensure AI solutions address security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability requirements.
- Help engineering teams use AI-powered capabilities across coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows.
- Guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operational concerns.
- Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and participate in architecture reviews and technical strategy discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
- Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in production.
- Deep knowledge of LLM-based applications, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluation approaches.
- Strong architecture experience across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms, security, and cloud-native solutions.
- Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technical guardrails across multiple teams.
- Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for engineering and executive audiences.
- Ability to balance innovation, speed, risk management, and long-term maintainability.
- Desirable experience includes large enterprise or platform-oriented environments, AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, security controls, cloud AI platforms, vector search, AI gateways, observability, production AI operations, and AI-powered development tools.
- Experience mentoring architects or leading architecture communities of practice is desirable; a master’s degree is also desirable.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in India.
- Internal events, meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
- Internal mobility and opportunities to work across diverse domains and large-scale projects.
- Company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial and legal consultations.
- Collaborative open-door culture with global teams in Chennai and Pune.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Ciklum
Ciklum is an IT services firm that builds custom digital products and provides nearshore engineering teams, QA, DevOps, data analytics, and UX for enterprises and high-growth startups. It operates a services model spanning product engineering, e-commerce solutions, and managed delivery centers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global clients including Just Eat and Zurich Insurance.