AI Architect
- Zensar
- 10 - 20 years
- Hyderabad
- 8 months ago
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Job Description
Experience: 10+ years overall | Minimum 10 full-cycle AI/ML project implementations, including GenAI experience
Role Summary:
We are seeking a AI Architect to lead strategic AI transformation initiatives within the retail domain. This role demands deep hands-on experience in AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI (GenAI), along with the ability to engage directly with C-level stakeholders, align technical delivery with business objectives, and drive enterprise-wide adoption of advanced AI solutions.The ideal candidate is a techno-strategic leader who can take AI/ML/GenAI projects from ideation to productionbuilding architectures, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring regulatory and operational alignment in retail environments.Key Responsibilities:Consulting & Business Alignment
- Partner with senior business and IT leadership, including CIOs, CDOs, and COOs, to identify high-impact use cases across e-commerce, retail operations, supply chain, and customer experience.
- Translate complex retail challenges into technically feasible and scalable AI/ML/GenAI solutions.
- Create strategic roadmaps, capability assessments, and PoV/PoC execution plans that align with business KPIs and regulatory needs.
Solution Architecture & Delivery Leadership
- Design and lead delivery of AI/ML/GenAI pipelines covering data ingestion, model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build and scale GenAI-based solutions like LLM-driven chatbots, intelligent product recommendation engines, RAG pipelines, summarization tools, and virtual assistants.
- Architect cloud-native AI platforms using AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock), Azure (ML, OpenAI), or GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery, LangChain).
- Define and implement MLOps and LLMOps frameworks for versioning, retraining, CI/CD, and production observability.
- Ensure adherence to Responsible AI principles, including explainability, bias mitigation, auditability, and compliance with retail regulations (GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, etc.).
Engineering & Integration
- Work closely with data engineering teams to acquire, transform, and pipeline data from retail systems, customer databases, inventory management systems, and real-time feeds.
- Design architecture for data lakes, feature stores, and vector databases supporting AI and GenAI use cases.
- Enable seamless integration of AI capabilities into enterprise workflows, customer platforms, and decision engines via APIs and microservices.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in AI/ML, data engineering, and cloud architecture.
- Minimum of 5 end-to-end AI/ML project implementations from use case discovery through to productionization.
- Proven expertise in: (Any One)
- AI/ML frameworks: scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch
- GenAI/LLM platforms: OpenAI, Cohere, Mistral, LangChain, Hugging Face, vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS, Chroma)
- Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP including AI/ML & GenAI native services
- MLOps/LLMOps tools: MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI Pipelines
- Strong experience with data security, governance, model risk management, and AI compliance frameworks relevant to retail.
- Ability to lead large cross-functional teams and engage both technical teams and senior stakeholders.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Data Science & AnalyticsRole Category: Data Science & Machine LearningRole: Head - Data ScienceEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: ZensarLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Gen AI Generative Ai Aiml LLM
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