Director Associate Distinguished Engineer (AI Architect, Palantir)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. in Hyderabad is seeking a senior software architect with 13+ years of experience to lead enterprise architecture for critical applications. You will design and govern Java/Spring Boot microservices, define API patterns, and drive cloud-native solutions across AWS/Azure while mentoring teams.

You will also spearhead POCs, evaluate new technologies, and oversee data modeling, PostgreSQL tuning, and CI/CD practices to ensure scalable, resilient systems.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Expertise designing enterprise-scale Java apps and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, data modeling, and PQ/SQ architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain architecture standards and technology roadmaps.
• Lead architecture discussions across product, engineering, and infra teams.
• Architect cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, containers, and modern deployment patterns.
• Design scalable APIs, service contracts, and event-driven patterns.
• Mentor engineers and drive POCs, tech evaluations, and AI integration initiatives.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Microservices

API Gateways

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Jenkins

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+ years
• Relevant years of 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.