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The Solution Architect (India) is a key technical leader within the Innovation Lab, driving the design and experimentation of emerging technologies, including Generative AI and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic AI orchestration frameworks. This role is embedded in exploratory projects, translating conceptual ideas into technical architectures that push the boundaries of AI-driven and emerging tech solutions. The architect collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to prototype, evaluate, and iterate on novel solutions, ensuring alignment with evolving enterprise innovation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design flexible, scalable, and secure solution architectures to test and validate emerging AI technologies.
• Rapidly prototype and evaluate new frameworks, tools, and methodologies for AI-driven applications, RAG pipelines and agents-AI workflows.
• Contribute to the evolution of enterprise innovation patterns and architecture standards based on experimentation outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership on cutting-edge AI / ML technologies, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.
• Guide teams through proof-of-concept (PoC) development and experimental deployments.
• Conduct architecture reviews and contribute to technical assessments of emerging tools and platforms.
• Engage with cross-functional teams, including AI researchers, engineers, and business stakeholders, to refine and test AI use cases.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to facilitate innovation adoption.
• Document and share key learnings from experimentation to influence future technology strategies.
• May mentor junior architects or developers but does not have direct reports.

Experience

Education

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.

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Skills Required

Microservices