Principal Platform Architect | Agentic AI

Overview

Principal Platform Architect focused on architecting key NIQ platform components and capabilities, with a major emphasis on responsible adoption of AI, Generative AI, and agentic AI.

What you'll do

• Lead architecture design for key products and capabilities across NIQ platforms.
• Define solution approaches and blueprints to guide component design while maintaining end-to-end platform integration.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, architecture principles, standards, patterns, and decision records.
• Shape enterprise architecture for AI, Generative AI, and agentic AI solutions, including model integration and orchestration.
• Define reusable secure and scalable AI agent patterns, covering guardrails, evaluation, observability, auditability, and cost management.
• Partner with security, privacy, legal, data governance, and Responsible AI stakeholders to meet enterprise requirements.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in application development, solution design, or software architecture.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, highly available, and observable distributed systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data architecture, data modelling, and high-volume processing across relational and non-relational data stores.
• Experience with Azure AI services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks and interoperability standards (semantic orchestration frameworks, multi-agent frameworks, Model Context Protocol).
• Experience defining Responsible AI governance, AI risk controls, threat modelling, red-teaming, or security patterns for AI-enabled applications.

Details

• Location: Chennai, TN, India.