Agentic AI Principal (m/f/d)
ThoughtWorks6 hours ago
Munich, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape and solution complex agentic AI pursuits across Germany, the Netherlands, and the DACH region from opportunity through delivery.
- Advise C-suite stakeholders, lead AI maturity assessments, identify processes for agentisation, and connect architecture decisions to business value and ROI.
- Define architecture direction and help build production-grade agentic AI systems involving multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, memory, retrieval, evaluation, observability, and enterprise integration.
- Integrate agents with SAP, clinical, laboratory, quality, manufacturing, industrial, and legacy enterprise systems using appropriate open interoperability protocols.
- Design sovereign, compliant, secure, and responsible AI solutions for European and German regulated environments.
- Establish reusable patterns for testing, observability, auditability, traceability, safeguards, governance, and production reliability.
- Provide technical and delivery leadership across multidisciplinary programmes while remaining hands-on enough to validate architecture and unblock teams.
- Set technical direction across teams, mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and grow Thoughtworks' German and Dutch agentic AI capability and market presence.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in modern software engineering and Python, with a strong track record setting standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, maintainability, and production reliability.
- Recognised experience architecting and delivering complex GenAI and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale through production deployment.
- Deep knowledge of agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, and LlamaIndex, including orchestration, memory, multi-agent coordination, tool use, MCP, and A2A.
- Strong expertise in Retrieval-Augmented Generation, advanced information retrieval, vector databases, enterprise knowledge integration, and evaluation strategies for GenAI systems.
- Experience with AI safeguards and secure deployment, including guardrails, red-teaming, prompt-injection protection, data-leakage prevention, and tool-misuse controls.
- Significant experience deploying AI systems on major cloud platforms using production-grade infrastructure, including sovereign cloud, hybrid, on-premises, or self-hosted open-weight model environments.
- Experience with prompt and context engineering, appropriate fine-tuning, model adaptation, and application-level performance optimisation.
- Working knowledge of the EU AI Act, GDPR, GxP, GAMP 5, EU MDR/IVDR, EHDS, DORA, NIS2, and BaFin requirements as they affect AI system design.
- Strongly preferred experience delivering AI in healthcare or life sciences; experience integrating with SAP and industrial or manufacturing systems is desirable.
- Proven ability to lead C-suite and senior client engagements and shape, sell, and deliver complex data and AI deals, including deals of €5M or more and an annual target of €10M or more in total contract value.
- Recent consultancy or professional-services experience, ideally with German, Dutch, or DACH enterprise clients, plus experience growing a practice, capability, or reusable go-to-market asset.
- Proven leadership across multidisciplinary delivery teams, ability to influence without formal authority, and experience mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders.
- Experience navigating German works councils, data protection officers, procurement, and other stakeholder structures.
- German at B2 minimum, with C1 strongly preferred, and fluent English.
Benefits
- Thoughtworks provides career development support through interactive tools, development programmes, and a cultivation-focused colleague community.
- The role is hybrid, as indicated by the posting's #LI-Hybrid designation.
- The position covers Germany, the Netherlands, and the wider DACH region, with German and Dutch market-facing responsibilities.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsSolutions Engineering
About ThoughtWorks
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that designs and builds custom software, data platforms, and cloud-native systems for enterprises across industries. Its services-based model spans product discovery, agile delivery, platform modernization, and advisory on digital transformation and AI. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Chicago, it listed on Nasdaq in 2021 (TWKS) and remains backed by private-equity firm Apax Partners.