Immediate Opening For Principal Architect-AI (Databricks & Snowflakes)
Principal Architect-AI (Databricks & Snowflakes)
Experience :14-18 years
Location : Bangalore/Chennai/Kochi
Role Summary
A Principal Architect – AI designs and leads large-scale AI/ML and data platform architectures, using Databricks and Snowflake as core platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with strong influence across engineering, data science, and business stakeholders.
Core Responsibilities
· Define enterprise AI/ML architecture (batch, streaming, real-time inference)
· Lead Lakehouse and modern data stack designs
· Architect end-to-end pipelines:
o Ingestion → Feature engineering → Model training → Deployment → Monitoring
· Own reference architectures, standards, and best practices
· Guide teams on scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization
· Partner with business leaders to translate AI use cases into production systems
· Mentor senior engineers and architects
Key Technical Skills
Databricks
· Lakehouse architecture (Delta Lake)
· Spark (batch + structured streaming)
· MLflow (experiments, model registry)
· Feature Store
· Unity Catalog (governance)
· Databricks SQL & workflows
Snowflake
· Data modeling (Star, Snowflake schemas)
· Snowpark (Python / Scala)
· Snowflake ML
· Secure data sharing & clean rooms
· Performance tuning & cost governance
AI / ML
· Classical ML + Deep Learning
· GenAI (LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search)
· Model serving & MLOps
· Feature engineering at scale
· Responsible AI & model governance
Cloud & Platform
· AWS / Azure / GCP
· Kubernetes & containerized ML
· CI/CD for data & ML pipelines
· Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)