Artificial Intelligence Platform Lead

Role Summary

Own end-to-end lifecycle of autonomous AI agents and internal AI accelerators driving multi-crore business impact through automation and productivity transformation.

Build and scale AI agent ecosystem from zero to enterprise production, delivering measurable ROI through agent automation across engineering workflows.

Key Responsibilities

AI Agent Platform Architecture

• Architect scalable, production-grade AI agent frameworks for enterprise deployment
• Design agent orchestration systems supporting complex multi-agent workflows
• Implement enterprise-grade monitoring, tracing, and performance observability
• Ensure 99.9% uptime SLA across all production agents
• Optimize for cost efficiency and performance at scale

Agent Development & Productionization

• Lead development of autonomous AI agents solving high-value business problems
• Implement advanced agent capabilities (tool calling, memory, reasoning, planning)
• Productionize agent deployments with robust error handling and recovery mechanisms
• Optimize inference costs and performance at enterprise scale (1B+ tokens/month)
• Establish production readiness standards and deployment practices

Internal AI Accelerators

• Create reusable AI tools and accelerators for domain experts
• Package complex AI capabilities as low-code/no-code solutions
• Drive platform adoption across large engineering user base (8,000+ users)
• Measure and demonstrate productivity impact and business value
• Build self-service AI capabilities for non-technical users

Enterprise Integration & MLOps

• Integrate AI platform with enterprise data lakehouse and analytics layer
• Implement comprehensive MLOps pipelines (CI/CD, model registry, versioning)
• Establish cost governance and optimization frameworks
• Ensure enterprise security, compliance, and data governance standards
• Implement monitoring dashboards for cost, performance, and availability

Platform Leadership & Strategy

• Define AI agent platform roadmap and technology strategy
• Mentor junior AI engineers and establish best practices
• Collaborate with cloud vendors and technology partners
• Present platform impact and ROI to executive leadership
• Drive continuous optimization and innovation

Required Technical Expertise

Must Have

• check mark button 3+ years production AI agent frameworks
• (Mosaic AI, LangChain, crewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent)
• check mark button 2+ years enterprise LLM deployments
• (GPT-4o or equivalent, 1B+ tokens/month scale)
• check mark button Expert Python development
• (FastAPI, agent orchestration, vector databases)
• check mark button Production MLOps experience
• (model registry, tracing, monitoring, cost optimization)
• check mark button Enterprise-scale system design
• (high availability, fault tolerance, observability, cost controls)

DOMAIN PREFERRED

• Engineering, consulting, or technology services industry experience
• Multi-modal AI (vision, document understanding, structured data)
• Large-scale data platform integration (lakehouse, real-time analytics)
• Databricks ecosystem or Azure cloud platform experience

Technical Tools & Stack

CORE TECHNOLOGIES:

• Python (3.8+, FastAPI, async frameworks)
• Databricks ML ecosystem (Mosaic AI, MLflow)
• Azure OpenAI or equivalent LLM APIs
• Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or Databricks Vector Search)

AGENT FRAMEWORKS:

• LangChain / LlamaIndex
• crewAI / AutoGen
• Custom orchestration frameworks
• RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems

MLOPS STACK:

• MLflow (model registry, experiment tracking)
• Databricks Workflows / Apache Airflow
• Monitoring: Weights & Biases, Prometheus/Grafana
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins

CLOUD PLATFORMS:

• Azure (Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Fabric, Entra ID)
• AWS or GCP (equivalent enterprise experience acceptable)
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes basics

OPTIONAL BUT VALUABLE:

• Prompt engineering / few-shot learning
• Embeddings and semantic search
• Token optimization techniques
• Cost forecasting and budget management

Business Impact & Success Metrics

Platform Impact

• Revenue Productivity: Multi-crore annual value through automation
• Engineering Efficiency: 20%+ productivity improvement across user base
• Cost Discipline: Enterprise-scale inference cost optimization
• Strategic Advantage: First-mover AI capability in domain