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Technical Director

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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The Technical Director will lead the architecture, design, and deployment of AI systems, mentor teams, ensure secure ML execution, and drive cross-functional collaboration in product development.
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Role Overview

We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Technical Director with minimal 15 years of experience  to lead the architecture, design, development, and deployment of applications using agentic AI systems within a secure, scalable AWS environment. This role is critical to the success of our AI Assistant feature roadmap initiatives and will drive innovation in autonomous AI agents, secure ML execution, and cloud-native architecture.

Key Responsibilities
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams and driving end-to-end solution delivery earning domain expertise between components
  • AI First mindset - mentor AI expertise to the team
  • Knowledgeable to drive sizing initiatives at the ideation phase and represent team in sharing technical solution with design artifacts. Specialization in design using AWS and AI/ML agentic LLM model expertise is key.
  • Architect and lead development of agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution.
  • Design and implement secure ML execution environments using AWS services (e.g., SageMaker, Lambda, ECS, IAM, Bedrock, Agent Core, Agent Core gateway, Strands / Langgraph ).
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence product grooming by proactively identifying and shaping technically feasible requirements
  • Be fluent in design artifacts to support agile development and drive cross-functional alignment.
  • Absorb and evolve existing thin-router-based architectures to incorporate advanced AWS concepts, including emerging services like AWS Agent Core.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team on MCP protocol usage, ensuring scalable and modular communication across agentic components.
  • Guide the team in leveraging AI tools programmatically using languages such as Python, Java, and others as needed.
  • Define and enforce security protocols for sandboxing, data privacy, and model governance.
  • Evaluate and implement frameworks for agent orchestration, memory, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration.
  • Mentor engineering teams and establish best practices for scalable, secure AI development.
  • Guide in hiring high performance team initiatives

Required Qualifications
  • Proven experience in agentic AI development, including autonomous agents, tool use, and memory systems.
  • Deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, including ML and security services.
  • Strong background in machine learning, LLMs, and AI system design.
  • Experience with sandboxing, secure execution, and zero-trust architectures.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy through technical insights and feasibility analysis.
  • Influencing to provide right quality coverage using AI solutioning tools
  • Ability to absorb and extend existing architectural patterns, especially thin-router designs, using modern AWS services.
  • Hands-on experience with MCP / A2A protocol and ability to mentor teams on its application in distributed agentic systems.
  • Proficiency in AI tool integration using programming languages such as Python, Java, and others.
  • 10+ years in software engineering or AI development, with 3+ years in tech leadership roles.
  • Delivering using agile / scrum models.
  • Own to drive devops dependencies
Preferred Skills
  • Familiarity with frameworks like MCP, LangChain, AutoGPT, or custom agentic stacks.
  • Hands on experience to develop using multi purpose advanced agentic model, handling agent to agent flow etc.
  • Expertise in designing cost effective cloud based db’s (nosql, distributed)
  • Experience in regulated environments (e.g., security, finance, healthcare, enterprise SaaS).
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to produce lightweight design documentation in fast-paced environments.
Why Join Us?
  • Be part of a strategic AI initiative with high visibility and impact.
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies in a security-first AI environment.
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AWS
Bedrock
Ecs
Iam
Java
Lambda
Mcp
Python
Sagemaker

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