Generative AI - Senior Manager

PwC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Acceleration Center India in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Manager in Generative AI to transform raw data into actionable insights and drive data-driven decision making. The role spans advisory, assurance, tax and business services, guiding AI roadmaps and coaching teams.

You will lead on scalable AI frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, and RAG architectures while engaging clients and maintaining governance and quality standards across engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and Master's degrees required.
• 12+ years of technical/technology experience.
• Proficiency in English (oral & written).

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation and implementation of scalable AI frameworks aligned with business use cases.
• Drive standardization and maturity in Generative and Agentic AI development with reusable blueprints and guides.
• Define multi-agent system design patterns including tool usage, memory management, and orchestration.
• Establish evaluation frameworks for AI performance, reliability, and autonomous decision quality.
• Design RAG architectures optimizing retrieval, embeddings and chunking, mentoring AI teams.
• Manage client engagements from discovery to delivery, leveraging DevOps and CI/CD expertise.

Skills

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Job Description:

Not Applicable

Specialism

Data, Analytics & AI

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

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 - 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 Data and Analytics Engineering practice, you will focus on leveraging advanced analytics and statistical techniques to extract insights from large datasets and drive data-driven decision-making. As a Senior Manager, you will grow as a strategic advisor, leveraging your influence, skills, and network to deliver quality results. You will motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. With increased autonomy, you will apply sound judgment, recognizing when to take action and when to elevate.
In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will craft and convey clear, impactful messages that tell a holistic story. You will apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and opportunities, validate outcomes with clients, and share alternative perspectives. Directing the team through complexity, you will demonstrate composure through ambiguous, challenging, and uncertain situations. Your ability to develop and sustain diverse and inclusive teams, along with your commitment to excellence, will contribute to the success of our firm.

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

• At least a Bachelors & Masters degree
• 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.

Travel Requirements

Not Specified