Associate Distinguished Engineer (AI Architect, Palantir)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Telangana; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Architect to define and steer the architecture for enterprise-grade applications.

You will lead cross-functional design discussions, shape cloud-native solutions, and ensure APIs, data models, and integrations meet scalable business needs across diverse teams. The role demands extensive hands-on experience with Java, Spring, microservices, AI integrations, and modern deployment patterns.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of experience in software engineering, solution design, and enterprise architecture.
• Strong Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot proficiency.
• Experience with microservices, API gateways, service discovery and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design RESTful APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Hands-on with Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Ontology, Workshop and AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain solution architecture and technology roadmaps.
• Lead architecture discussions across product, engineering, infra, and business teams.
• Architect cloud-native enterprise solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and containers.
• Design scalable APIs, service contracts, and event-driven patterns.
• Provide technical leadership and align implementations with standards and business goals.
• Architect AI-powered applications and integrate Generative AI/LLM capabilities.
• Lead POCs, evaluations, and architecture spikes for emerging tech.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Cloud architecture

AI/LLM integration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Palantir AIP

Ontology

Workshop

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Azure

PostgreSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

• Full-time
• Service Region: South Asia

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at a scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18500+ experts across 39 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

Requirements

• Experience : 13+yrs
• Relevant experience in software engineering, solution design, and enterprise application architecture.
• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Java applications.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture and modern distributed application design.
• Strong understanding of microservices design patterns, service discovery, API gateways, distributed systems, and event‑driven architectures.
• Proven experience designing RESTful APIs, enterprise integrations, and service contracts.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and architectural best practices.
• Experience working with both monolithic and microservices‑based architectures.
• Proven experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating monolithic systems to microservices architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Ontology, and Workshop.
• Experience architecting and delivering AI‑powered enterprise applications using Palantir and related AI platforms.
• Good understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI workflow architectures.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into enterprise business applications.
• Experience conducting POCs, technical feasibility studies, architecture spikes, and evaluations of emerging technologies.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience designing data models and database schemas.
• Hands‑on experience with schema migrations, query optimization, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and database performance tuning.
• Experience defining data integration and data governance approaches across applications.
• Good understanding of AWS and/or Azure cloud architectures.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes‑based deployments.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tools such as Terraform.
• Experience supporting CI/CD implementations using Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Understanding of application monitoring, observability, logging, and operational support requirements.
• Experience with enterprise messaging and event‑driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or similar messaging technologies.
• Understanding of asynchronous communication patterns and distributed transaction management.
• Strong cloud architecture and solution design capabilities.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong architectural leadership, technical decision‑making, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to rapidly evaluate new tools, frameworks, AI platforms, and technologies and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Strong innovation mindset with experience driving ideation, experimentation, and technology adoption initiatives.
• High level of ownership, accountability, and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain solution architecture, technical standards, design principles, and technology roadmaps for enterprise applications.
• Lead architecture and design discussions across product, engineering, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Architect and develop cloud‑native enterprise solutions using Java, Spring Boot, containerization, and modern deployment patterns.
• Design scalable APIs, service contracts, integration patterns, and event‑driven architectures.
• Provide technical leadership and solution guidance to development teams, ensuring implementations align with architectural standards, best practices, and business objectives.
• Lead the design and delivery of major feature enhancements and complex technical initiatives from solution definition through implementation and deployment.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex architectural and development challenges.
• Conduct design reviews and mentor engineers on architecture, software design, and development best practices.
• Architect and support AI‑powered business applications using Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Ontology, Workshop, and other emerging AI frameworks.
• Design and integrate AI/LLM capabilities into enterprise applications, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, and AI workflow architectures.
• Lead Proofs of Concept (POCs), innovation initiatives, technical evaluations, and architecture spikes for emerging technologies.
• Evaluate new AI platforms, frameworks, tools, and technologies and recommend suitable solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to define deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, observability, and operational requirements.
• Design and support cloud‑native architectures across AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Define scalable and resilient microservices architectures, including service discovery, API gateways, distributed systems, and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Design database architectures and data models using PostgreSQL, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Support database schema design, migrations, query optimization, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and performance tuning.
• Define data integration and governance approaches across enterprise applications.
• Design and implement messaging and event‑driven solutions using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or similar platforms.
• Ensure architecture compliance with enterprise security, governance, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Support modernization of legacy applications and migration from monolithic to microservices‑based architectures.
• Drive technical innovation and experimentation initiatives while maintaining alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Provide architectural leadership, technical direction, and decision‑making across complex enterprise technology initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.