AI Principal Architect

Principal Architect and Line Manager for a GenAI-centric, event-driven agentic platform. Directly responsible for architecture, engineering team management, agile delivery, operational excellence, security/compliance, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own a multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) event-driven platform using Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, AWS Batch, Celery, serverless APIs, FastAPI, and StoneBranch for orchestrated, autonomous agent workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Pinecone). 
• Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain technical talent; conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, goal-setting, and annual/career planning for all engineers. 
• Lead sprint ceremonies (planning, retros, incident reviews), foster a collaborative culture, and mentor engineers on distributed async, agentic, and event-based system design. 
• Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to translate strategic goals into detailed architectural delivery plans. 
• Oversee and sign off technical designs including event contract/schema management, API gateway/token auth (OAuth2, Vault), vector DB (Pinecone) pipelines, and GenAI/LLM integration. 
• Drive process improvement: identify gaps in delivery velocity, quality coverage, and agile flow; sponsor retrospectives and adaptation. 
• Ensure system-wide observability, SLO/SLA definition, incident management, and production monitoring/alerting. 
• Promote transparent documentation/knowledge sharing (runbooks, API/event schemas, process playbooks). 
• Advocate and implement security/compliance policy, platform access control, and cross-team cost/data integrity management. 

Qualifications

• 6+ years leading cross-functional cloud, agentic, and event-driven engineering teams, hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and advanced architectural patterns. 
• Proven team/people management, coaching, hiring, and retention abilities. 
• Deep technical background and communication skills for business and technical audience alignment.