AI Architect

United Layer; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,500,000; Full time

Job summary

United Layer in Bengaluru invites a Technical AI Architect to design scalable, secure, and performant distributed architectures for consumer-facing applications. You will code, design, deploy, and debug projects, and collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership teams.

This permanent role requires hands-on coding, strong cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure), and the ability to translate requirements into technical designs and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) or networking are a plus.
• Proven experience in software development, system design, or AI/ML solutions.
• Strong understanding of architecture design, coding best practices, and scalable systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, DevOps, and AI-powered solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members effectively.

Responsibilities

• Participate in both low-level design (LLD) and high-level design (HLD).
• Strong coding skills required; must be a hands-on coder.
• Expertise in AI-powered solutions.
• Strong knowledge of AWS or other cloud technologies.
• Proven experience in scaling systems effectively.
• Take ownership of new products and features.
• Mentor and assist junior team members and perform code reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and designers to identify the best approach for building features.
• Ability to create simple architecture diagrams using tools like draw.io or MS Paint.
• Candidate should have an IDE (PyCharm, VS Code, or equivalent) open and available for hands-on work.

Skills

Hands-on coding

AI-powered solutions

AWS

Azure

GCP

DevSecOps

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT

Tools

draw.io

MS Paint

PyCharm

VS Code

Job description

No of Position

1

About the role

As a Technical AI Architect, you will be responsible for creating scalable, secure and performant distributed architectures for rich, high-end, consumer-facing applications The Architect is responsible for coding, designing, deploying, and debugging development projects. In this role you ll be working closely with a passionate and driven Engineering Team, Product Management team, Architects, Engineers, Leadership team and other stakeholders. You will be on-call 24/7 and make yourself available to effectively manage the stakeholders, customer calls

Permanent Opportunity (direct payroll)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure that the technology objectives are aligned with the business goals of the systems and programs designed.

• Create the optimum technical solution in the context of the customer s environment, requirements, and financial resources. Ensure systems meet functional and non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, maintainability, operational costs).

• Design the structure of technology systems and manage the implementation of programs.

• Coordinate with the software development team to ensure the system runs smoothly.

• Contribute to the backend codebase and Technical Architecture, including Database Schema, API Code Design for the backend. Develop highly optimized and reusable code.

• Distinguish between good code and bad code through code reviews focusing on maintainability, readability, performance, documentation, and architecture compliance.

• Design and implement innovative solutions tailored to customer needs by identifying reusable patterns across multiple clients facing similar challenges.

• Explain architecture to commercial and management audiences.

• Evaluate architectural choices and decisions made by others, and formulate alternatives.

• Assess whether proposed architecture meets relevant business cases.

• Gauge the difficulty or ease of implementing proposed architecture, considering ease of maintenance.

• Assess performance characteristics of the proposed architecture.

• Evaluate security implications of the proposed architecture.

• Enforce technical design reviews, focusing on hard technical artifacts such as ER diagrams, time-sequence diagrams, truth tables, pseudocode, etc.

• Create high-level product specifications and design documents.

• Develop standards and technical documentation for existing theoretical software designs.

• Recommend tools and capabilities from various on-premise, cloud-based, and hybrid resources.

• Use the latest technologies to continuously improve current software capabilities.

• Apply skills in cloud services (AWS and Azure) and design DevSecOps practices.

• Work closely with customers to understand requirements and translate them into functional products.

• Translate requirements into functional documents.

• Create high-level design documents and technical approach documents.

• Collaborate with the development team to build utilities and provide technical assistance.

Responsibilities

• Participate in both low-level design (LLD) and high-level design (HLD).

• Strong coding skills required; must be a hands-on coder.

• Expertise in AI-powered solutions.

• Strong knowledge of AWS or other cloud technologies.

• Proven experience in scaling systems effectively.

• Take ownership of new products and features.

• Mentor and assist junior team members and perform code reviews.

• Collaborate with Product Managers and designers to identify the best approach for building features.

• Ability to create simple architecture diagrams using tools like draw.io or MS Paint.

• Candidate should have an IDE (PyCharm, VS Code, or equivalent) open and available for hands-on work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Relevant certifications in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) or networking are a plus.

• Proven experience in software development, system design, or AI/ML solutions.

• Strong understanding of architecture design, coding best practices, and scalable systems.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, DevOps, and AI-powered solutions.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members effectively.

• Strong collaboration skills to work with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Familiar with frontend technologies (JavaScript / Angular).

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.

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