Senior Enterprise AI Architect - Production-Ready Delivery

TeamLease Digital Global; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TeamLease Digital in New York/New Jersey, USA, Hybrid, seeks a Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise AI delivery for complex client environments, especially in investment management and financial services.

The role is hands-on and senior, turning AI prototypes into production-ready, scalable and secure solutions while optimizing performance and cost.

You will set standards, mentor a large team of AI engineers and data scientists, and partner with sales to craft winning technical proposals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering, architecture, data platforms and AI/ML.
• Proven enterprise AI production delivery experience.
• Hands-on fine-tuning and serving open-weight LLMs (LoRA, QLoRA, full FT).
• Strong Python, distributed systems, APIs, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GPU serving.
• Experience with cloud platforms and data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake).
• Knowledge of AI evaluation, monitoring, governance and data readiness.
• Demonstrated leadership while hands-on coding and architecture reviews.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI architecture across LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, model routing, orchestration, guardrails and evaluation.
• Lead open-weight model selection, fine-tuning, deployment and optimisation.
• Establish production engineering standards, automated testing, evaluation frameworks, CI/CD and release-readiness controls.
• Optimise AI inference costs, latency and performance through quantisation, caching, batching and distillation.
• Lead and mentor a team of 30+ AI engineers and data scientists across multiple client implementations.
• Partner with sales and consulting teams on solution architecture, technical proposals, feasibility assessments and cost estimation.

Skills

AI Architecture

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GPU Serving

Cloud Platform

Data Platforms

Model Fine-tuning

Leadership

Security & Governance

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

TeamLease Digital in New York/New Jersey, USA, Hybrid, seeks a Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise AI delivery for complex client environments, especially in investment management and financial services.

The role is hands-on and senior, turning AI prototypes into production-ready, scalable and secure solutions while optimizing performance and cost.

You will set standards, mentor a large team of AI engineers and data scientists, and partner with sales to craft winning technical proposals.