Large Language Model Architect

Accenture PLC; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Large Language Model Architect to design and deliver end-to-end AI platform architectures. You will focus on Snowflake Cortex AI, LLMs, and agentic workflows across industries such as banking, insurance and retail.

You will own technical architecture, collaborate with stakeholders, and define security, observability and governance standards while guiding delivery teams and ensuring alignment with enterprise processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, IT or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, AI/ML engineering or technology architecture.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and deploying enterprise-grade advanced AI or cloud data solutions using at least one cloud vendor.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in agentic AI, LLM and generative AI solution architecture or engineering delivery.
• Minimum 4+ years of coding experience using Python and experience with APIs, distributed systems, reusable frameworks and cloud-native application patterns.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in ML, deep learning, NLP, data engineering, analytical engineering or AI product delivery.
• Demonstrated experience as a solution/technology architect in banking, insurance, retail, healthcare, travel, logistics or telecom.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy and product goals into a technical vision, architecture blueprint, non-functional requirements and implementation roadmap.
• Lead stakeholder workshops to align on feasibility, project scope, solution boundaries, delivery dependencies and client-facing expectations.
• Define Snowflake-native AI architecture design including Cortex-based agent, RAG, document intelligence and analytics patterns within Snowflake perimeter.
• Architect model and tool agnostic multi-agent systems, including orchestration, tool use, agent memory, context management, MCP/control-plane patterns and reusable service abstractions.
• Design end-to-end data and context layer including ingestion, preprocessing, embeddings, vector search, knowledge graphs and semantic retrieval for reliable RAG.
• Define evaluation frameworks for accuracy, relevance, faithfulness, safety, latency and cost.
• Establish AI security, governance and observability as design controls including guardrails, PII protection, access control, audit logging and tracing.
• Maintain architecture decision records, diagrams, design specs, integration patterns and reusable reference assets.

Skills

Generative AI

LLM architecture patterns

Agentic AI

Snowflake Cortex AI

RBAC & security

Python

CI/CD & MLOps

Education

15 years full time education

Tools

Snowflake

Snowpark

Streamlit

LangChain (open-source)

Job description

Project Role :

Large Language Model Architect

Project Role Description :

Architect large language models (LLM) that can process and generate natural language. Design neural network parameters, trained on large quantities of unlabeled text data.

Must have skills :

Generative AI

Good to have skills :

Snowflake Data Warehouse

Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification :

15 years full time education

Role Summary / Description

AI Powered Tech Talent

• Experienced and senior AI/LLM Technology Architecture Engineer, responsible for designing and delivering end-to-end AI platform architectures on Snowflake.
• Own the technical architecture for modern AI systems spanning classical machine learning, generative AI, LLM applications, RAG, agentic workflows and enterprise AI platform integration.
• Act as the technical authority for one or more architecture domains such as agentic application design, AI security and trust, AI operations and observability, data and knowledge engineering, model platforms and inference.
• Bring practical industry experience in banking, insurance, retail, healthcare, travel, logistics or telecom to shape domain-grounded solutions, define controls, and ensure the AI architecture aligns with real business processes and enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy and product goals into a technical vision, architecture blueprint, non-functional requirements and implementation roadmap.
• Lead stakeholder workshops to align on feasibility, project scope, solution boundaries, delivery dependencies and client-facing expectations.
• For Snowflake, define Snowflake-native AI application architecture design Cortex-based agent, RAG, document intelligence and analytics patterns within Snowflake security perimeter define Snowpark and Streamlit application patterns establish RBAC, masking, lineage, monitoring, cost controls and governance for regulated GenAI workloads.
• Architect model and tool agnostic multi-agent systems, including orchestration, tool use, agent memory, context management, MCP/control-plane patterns and reusable service abstractions.
• Design the end-to-end data and context layer including ingestion, preprocessing, synchronization, chunking, embeddings, vector search, knowledge graphs and semantic retrieval for reliable RAG.
• Define evaluation frameworks for accuracy, relevance, faithfulness, groundedness, latency, cost, safety, security and operational reliability.
• Establish AI security, governance and observability as centrally enforced design controls including guardrails, prompt-injection defense, PII protection, access control, audit logging and OpenTelemetry-style tracing.
• Maintain architecture decision records, component diagrams, sequence diagrams, design specifications, integration patterns and reusable reference architecture assets.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, Information Technology or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, AI/ML engineering or technology architecture.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and deploying enterprise-grade advanced AI or cloud data solutions using at least one cloud vendor.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in agentic AI, LLM and generative AI solution architecture or engineering delivery.
• Minimum 4+ years of coding experience using Python and experience with APIs, distributed systems, reusable frameworks and cloud-native application patterns.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in ML, deep learning, NLP, data engineering, analytical engineering or AI product delivery.
• Demonstrated experience as a solution/technology architect in industry contexts such as banking, insurance, retail, healthcare, travel, logistics or telecom.

Required Skills/ Experience

• Hands-on architecture and engineering experience with Snowflake Cortex AI, Cortex Agents, Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex AI Functions/LLM Functions, Snowpark, Streamlit in Snowflake, Dynamic Tables, Tasks, Streams, Snowflake ML, RBAC, masking policies, access history and observability.
• Strong knowledge of LLM architecture patterns including RAG, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, model routing, fine-tuning/adaptation, function calling, tool integration and agent orchestration.
• Ability to define enterprise AI platform patterns for performance, scalability, security, reliability, observability, governance, cost optimization and operational support.
• Experience designing reusable agent services, memory services, API gateways, integration adapters, orchestration layers, evaluation harnesses and deployment pipelines.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, model evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, monitoring and production release governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to communicate architecture trade-offs, risks and recommendations to engineering, product, security and leadership teams.

Good to Have Skills

• SnowPro Advanced Architect, SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer or Snowflake ML exposure experience with Snowpark Python, Streamlit, semantic models, dbt, Native Apps, data sharing, Cortex Guardrails and Snowflake cost/performance tuning.
• Exposure to open-source AI and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Semantic Kernel, MLflow, FastAPI, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with responsible AI, model risk management, AI governance boards, red-teaming, human-in-the-loop review, A/B testing and GenAI FinOps.
• Experience building reusable enterprise reference architectures, estimation models, accelerators, playbooks and architecture governance frameworks.

15 years full time education

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