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Job Title: Tech Lead / Lead Architect – RAG & Agentic AI
Location: Columbus, OH/ Wilmington, DE – 3 days onsite role
Long Term Project
Strong financial and banking domain experience must need.
Role Summary:
Lead architecture, design, and delivery of Agentic AI and RAG-based solutions, partnering with customers and internal teams to build scalable, secure, and high-impact AI systems.
Must-Have:
Strong experience in RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector DBs, LLM orchestration, and prompting techniques.
Hands-on expertise in AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock, S3, OpenSearch, IAM, VPC, Secrets Manager).
Ability to design end-to-end AI architecture and build PoCs before committing solutions to customers.
Deep understanding of AI guardrails (toxicity, hallucination control), data privacy, and cloud security patterns.
Proven ability to lead from the front, mentor teams, and own delivery under tight timelines and high visibility.
Strong customer communication skills – ability to explain architecture, trade-offs, and risks clearly.
Experience handling model evaluation, observability, performance tuning, and cost optimization in production AI systems.
Expertise in API design, microservices integration, and event-driven architectures for AI systems.
Good-to-Have:
Experience with Agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, etc.).
Exposure to marketing domain use cases (campaign optimization, personalization, analytics, insights).
Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration, tool usage (MCP), and human-in-loop workflows.
Screening Checklist (Quick Evaluation for Interviews)
Use this to quickly filter candidates:
Technical Fit
❑ Can clearly explain a RAG architecture (data ingestion → embedding → retrieval → generation)
❑ Has built or deployed production AI/LLM solutions (not just POCs)
❑ Understands agent lifecycle, orchestration, and tool integrations
❑ Demonstrates AWS architecture + security (IAM roles, network isolation, secrets)
❑ Knows prompt engineering + evaluation + guardrails implementation
Architect & Leadership Fit
❑ Has led architecture/design discussions with customers
❑ Can drive PoC → production transition independently
❑ Shows ownership mindset (decision-making without dependency)
❑ Can mentor/coach developers and review designs/code
Communication & Behavioral Fit
❑ Explains complex AI topics in simple, structured way
❑ Asks insightful, strategic questions
❑ Demonstrates ability to handle ambiguity and pressure
To apply for this job email your details to Prakash.k@appianinfotech.com