AI Lead, Architect – Claude, LLM Skills

EXL

Principal Architect – Agentic & Generative AI leading the architecture and design of LLM systems. Hands-on role focusing on enterprise-scale adoption and mentorship of senior engineers.

Posted 6/3/2026full-time🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesPythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define enterprise reference architectures for Agentic AI and LLM-powered platforms, including: single-agent and multi-agent systems, tool-calling and function orchestration, memory, planning, and execution layers.
Own architectural decisions for Claude / Claude Code and other enterprise-grade LLMs, including model selection, deployment patterns, and cost-latency trade-offs.
Design secure-by-default GenAI systems incorporating guardrails and policy enforcement, data privacy, PII handling, and prompt safety.
Architect large-scale RAG solutions, covering data ingestion and curation pipelines, chunking and embedding strategies, vector databases and hybrid search, evaluation and feedback loops.
Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure data quality, lineage, observability, and governance for AI-driven systems.
Drive production readiness of GenAI systems: API-first design (FastAPI / REST / event-driven), CI/CD for LLM workflows, monitoring, evaluation, and cost tracking.
Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and accelerators for faster adoption across EXL accounts.
Review and influence cloud architecture (Azure / AWS / GCP) for scalable and compliant AI deployments.
Act as a technical authority for GenAI across delivery teams and client engagements.
Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and architects on agentic patterns and advanced LLM engineering.
Partner with clients, product owners, and domain SMEs to shape AI roadmaps, solution designs, and value articulation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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Benefits

Comp & perks

EXL never requires or asks for fees/payments or credit card or bank details during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process.
EXL has not authorized any agencies or partners to collect any fee or payment from prospective candidates.
EXL will only extend a job offer after a candidate has gone through a formal interview process with members of EXL’s Human Resources team, as well as our hiring managers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise reference architecturesAgentic AILLM-powered platformsmodel selectiondeployment patternsdata privacyRAG solutionsAPI-first designCI/CDcloud architecture

Soft Skills

architectural decisionsmentoringpartneringinfluencingdriving production readinessestablishing standardscollaborationcommunicationleadershipsolution design