Principal AI Architect

TeamLease Digital is seeking a Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture and production delivery for complex client environments, particularly in investment management and financial services. The role focuses on turning AI prototypes into scalable, secure production systems while optimizing performance and cost, and leading teams across client implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise AI architecture covering LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, model routing, orchestration, guardrails and evaluation
• Lead open-weight model selection, fine-tuning, deployment and optimisation
• Establish production engineering standards, automated testing, evaluation frameworks, CI/CD and release-readiness controls
• Optimise AI inference costs, latency and performance through quantisation, caching, batching and distillation
• Lead and mentor a team of 30+ AI engineers and data scientists across multiple client implementations
• Partner with sales and consulting teams on solution architecture, technical proposals, feasibility assessments and cost estimation