Principal Architect, AI Solutions IRC307099

GlobalLogic Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Work from home options

Paid time off and holidays

Competitive salaries

Medical insurance

Job summary

GlobalLogic is seeking a Principal Architect, AI Solutions to lead strategic AI architecture across products and enterprise platforms. The role focuses on scalable AI patterns, governance, and cross-team collaboration to deliver production-grade AI systems.

You will influence senior stakeholders, shape architecture standards, and mentor engineers while balancing innovation with maintainability and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
• Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluation approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.
• Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure, and practical AI solution architectures.
• Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled software development.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and guide the organization on where and how to adopt them.
• Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the organization.

Skills

AI architecture

LLM-based apps

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Stakeholder influence

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Principal Architect, AI Solutions IRC307099

Bachelorʼs or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in production environments Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluation approaches Strong architecture background across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms, security, and cloud-native solutions Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technical guardrails across multiple teams Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication from engineering teams to executive leadership Demonstrated ability to balance innovation, speed, risk management, and long-term maintainability Preferred Qualifications Experience working in a large enterprise, platform-oriented environment Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security controls Familiarity with cloud AI platforms and services, vector search, AI gateways, observability, and production AI operations Experience helping engineering organizations adopt AI-powered development tools and practices Experience defining reusable architecture patterns for shared enterprise AI capabilities Experience mentoring architects or leading architecture communities of practice Masterʼs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure, and practical AI solution architectures Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled software development Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and guide the organization on where and how to adopt them Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability Help engineering teams leverage AI-powered PDLC capabilities across coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows Guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operational concerns to avoid fragmented or duplicative solutions Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the organization Participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisions related to AI and platform modernization

What we offer

Exciting Projects: We focus on industries like High-Tech, communication, media, healthcare, retail and telecom. Our customer list is full of fantastic global brands and leaders who love what we build for them.

Collaborative Environment: You Can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment — or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!

Work-Life Balance: GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules, opportunities to work from home, and paid time off and holidays.

Professional Development: Our dedicated Learning & Development team regularly organizes Communication skills training(GL Vantage, Toast Master),Stress Management program, professional certifications, and technical and soft skill trainings.

Excellent Benefits: We provide our employees with competitive salaries, family medical insurance, Group Term Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance , NPS(National Pension Scheme ), Periodic health awareness program, extended maternity leave, annual performance bonuses, and referral bonuses.

Fun Perks: We want you to love where you work, which is why we host sports events, cultural activities, offer food on subsidies rates, Corporate parties. Our vibrant offices also include dedicated GL Zones, rooftop decks and GL Club where you can drink coffee or tea with your colleagues over a game of table and offer discounts for popular stores and restaurants!

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.