Generative AI Architect-Senior Manager

PwC Acceleration Center India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Acceleration Center India is seeking a Generative AI Architect‑Senior Manager to transform raw data into actionable insights and guide enterprise AI initiatives. You will lead teams, craft holistic AI roadmaps, and ensure high-quality delivery across advisory, assurance, tax, and business services.

You will leverage cloud AI platforms, orchestration frameworks, and retrieval systems, mentoring engineers and coordinating with stakeholders to drive impactful Gen AI programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's & Master's Degree in computer science, Data Science, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in technical/technology roles.
• Oral and written proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation, benchmarking, and implementation of scalable AI frameworks aligned with enterprise use cases.
• Drive standardization and maturity in Generative/Agentic AI development with reusable blueprints and guides.
• Define scalable multi-agent system design patterns including tool usage, memory, routing, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Establish evaluation frameworks to assess AI solution performance for production readiness.
• Design RAG architectures and knowledge retrieval systems aligned with data governance.
• Manage client engagements including discovery, demos, proposal development, and delivery planning with DevOps expertise.

Skills

English proficiency

Gen AI strategy

Education

Bachelor's & Master's Degree in CS/Data science

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Amazon Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

Pinecone

Weaviate

Milvus

Azure AI Search

LangSmith

Arize

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Windsurf

Job description

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services—solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands‑on learning, cutting‑edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.

As a Generative AI Architect‑Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in transforming raw data into actionable insights, enabling informed decision‑making and driving business growth. Within our Technology Consulting practice, you will leverage advanced analytics and statistical techniques to extract insights from large datasets, guiding strategic decisions and solving complex business problems. As a Senior Manager, you will apply your skills and professional network to deliver quality results, motivating and coaching teams to tackle intricate challenges. You will exercise sound judgment, recognizing when to take action and when to escalat , while fostering diverse and inclusive teams that contribute to the firm's success.

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will craft and convey impactful messages that tell a holistic story, apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems, and validate outcomes with clients. You will direct teams through complexity, demonstrating composure in ambiguous situations, and initiate open coaching conversations at all levels. Your commitment to excellence and ability to make difficult decisions will resolve issues hindering team effectiveness, reinforcing professional and technical standards. This opportunity allows you to deepen your skills and evolve your expertise, staying relevant in the ever-changing landscape of data science and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation, benchmarking, and implementation of scalable, secure, and compliant Agentic AI frameworks aligned with enterprise business use cases and organizational strategies.
• Drive technical standardization and maturity in Generative and Agentic AI development by creating reusable orchestration blueprints, prompt engineering guides, best practices, and integration patterns to ensure consistent delivery in complex programs.
• Define scalable multi-agent system design patterns including tool usage, memory management, task routing, agent communication, human-in-the-loop processes, and orchestration frameworks.
• Establish evaluation frameworks to assess Agentic AI solution performance, focusing on reasoning, tool reliability, task completion, hallucination mitigation, and autonomous decision quality for production readiness and continuous improvement.
• Design enterprise Retrieval
• Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures optimizing retrieval processes, embeddings, chunking, and reranking aligned with business goals and data governance, while mentoring AI engineering teams and collaborating with stakeholders to translate objectives into AI roadmaps.
• Manage client engagements including discovery, demos, proposal development, and delivery planning, leveraging strong DevOps, LLMOps, containerization, and CI/CD pipeline expertise to ensure successful, trusted partnerships and stay updated on Agentic AI and Generative AI advancements

What You Must Have

• Bachelor's & Master's Degree in computer science, Data Science, or a related field
• 12+ years of experience in technical/technology roles
• Oral and written proficiency in English required

What Sets You Apart

• Proven experience with enterprise cloud AI platforms like Azure AI Foundry (with Microsoft Fabric and Purview), Amazon Bedrock (with Knowledge Bases and Guardrails), and Google Vertex AI (with BigQuery and Agentspace) for building, governing, and deploying scalable production-grade Gen AI and Agentic AI solutions.
• Hands‑on expertise with leading agentic and AI orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, or equivalents for AI workflow automation and orchestration.
• In-depth knowledge of vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Azure AI Search) and their application in enterprise Retrieval
• Augmented Generation (RAG) and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Experience designing and scaling AI solutions that utilize multi-modal capabilities across text, vision, audio, and document understanding to enhance AI functionality.
• Familiarity with AI governance and observability platforms (e.g., LangSmith, Arize) to enable monitoring, tracing, debugging, and compliance of production AI systems, along with expertise in selecting appropriate LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) based on enterprise cost, latency, and compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of AI-powered development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf) to improve engineering productivity and facilitate large-scale AI-driven software development.