Gen AI Architect

Position Summary: Artificial Intelligence & Engineering

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to help build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions insights are powered by engineering for business advantage, helping transforming mission-critical operations. Join our AI & Engineering team to help in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success achievements. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses.

Level: Senior Manager or equivalent [Specialist Leader - Gen AI Architect]

As a Senior Manager/Specialist leader at Deloitte Consulting, you will play the role of strategic architect who creates and/or reviews enterprise-grade architectures and also provides best practices for technical delivery for complex, enterprise-solutions. You will lead and guide multidisciplinary, global teams and serve as a senior mentor to managers and junior staff. You will partner closely with clients and internal stakeholders to align solution strategies with business goals, contribute to sales and proposal development, and ensure rigorous management of end-to-end project delivery, including scoping, estimation, and executive reporting for successful project outcomes.

Work you’ll do:

As a Senior Manager, you will collaborate with client and internal leadership to shape solution strategies that align with key business objectives. You will provide expert oversight throughout the technical delivery lifecycle—guiding architectural decisions, driving best practices, and ensuring solutions meet quality standards. In this role, you will manage multidisciplinary teams, coach and mentor talent, and oversee project progress through executive status reporting and risk mitigation. Additionally, you will support business development efforts by contributing to proposals, providing solution insights, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.

The team:

Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client’s needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Qualifications: Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• 10+ years in software engineering/architecture, with recent focus on AI/GenAI platforms and enterprise delivery.
• Proven agentic AI delivery: designed and implemented multi-agent/workflow systems (planning, tool-use, routing, memory) in production for real business processes.
• GenAI solution architecture expertise: patterns for RAG, agentic orchestration, function/tool calling, prompt/response schemas, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
• Strong AI/ML foundation: hands-on with model selection, embeddings, retrieval, fine-tuning/adapter approaches, and rigorous evaluation (offline + online).
• End-to-end platform design: reference architectures spanning data ingestion, knowledge stores/vector DB, model gateways, orchestration, APIs/UI, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Enterprise integration skills: connecting agents to business systems (ERP/CRM/ITSM/data platforms) via APIs/events, with secure tool access, logging, and audit trails.
• Security, risk, and compliance by design: IAM, secrets management, privacy/PII, model risk controls, prompt injection defenses, and human-in-the-loop escalation.
• Cloud + architecture certifications (expected): one or more of AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), Google Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, plus an architecture credential such as TOGAF, SABSA, or equivalent (security architecture a plus).
• MLOps/LLMOps maturity: CI/CD, environment promotion, model/prompt/version governance, observability, reliability/SLA design, and cost/performance optimization.
• Innovation & eminence: demonstrated thought leadership (patents/publications/talks/blogs), internal/external community contributions, development of reusable accelerators/reference architectures, and a track record of piloting emerging capabilities into scalable delivery.

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and AI governance practices.
• Proven track record in mentoring senior teams and driving technical excellence across large-scale programs.

Education:

N/A

Location:

Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Pune/Chennai/Kolkata

Our purpose:

Deloitte’s purpose is to make an impact that matters for our people, clients, and communities. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. Our purpose comes through in our work with clients that enables impact and value in their organizations, as well as through our own investments, commitments, and actions across areas that help drive positive outcomes for our communities.

Our people and culture:

Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ways of thinking, ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients’ most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.

Professional development:

At Deloitte, professionals have the opportunity to work with some of the best and discover what works best for them. Here, we prioritize professional growth, offering diverse learning and networking opportunities to help accelerate careers and enhance leadership skills. Our state-of-the-art DU: The Leadership Center in India, located in Hyderabad, represents a tangible symbol of our commitment to the holistic growth and development of our people. Explore DU: The Leadership Center in India. Benefits To Help You Thrive: At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. Our comprehensive rewards program helps us deliver a distinctly Deloitte experience that empowers our professionals to thrive mentally, physically, and financially—and live their purpose. To support our professionals and their loved ones, we offer a broad range of benefits. Eligibility requirements may be based on role, tenure, type of employment and/or other criteria. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.

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Key skills/competency:

• Generative AI Architect
• Enterprise Architecture
• AI/ML Foundation
• Agentic AI Delivery
• MLOps/LLMOps
• Cloud Architecture
• Security Architecture
• Technical Delivery Leadership
• Mentorship
• Business Development