AI Principal Architect

Principal Architect and Line Manager for aGenAI-centric, event-driven agentic platform.Directly responsiblefor 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, andStoneBranchfor orchestrated, autonomous agent workflows (LangChain,LangGraph,LlamaIndex, Pinecone).
• Recruit, onboard, develop, andretaintechnical 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, andGenAI / LLM integration.
• Drive process improvement : identifygaps 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

$250,000 - $280,000 a year

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