Senior Principal Engineer / Technical Architect

**Position: Senior Principal Engineer / Technical Architect Location: Hyderabad or Bangalore, India Experience: 12. Years Notice Period: Preferred - 30 Days
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Principal Engineer with strong experience in cloud platforms, distributed systems, AI platform engineering, and security architecture. The candidate will work as an individual contributor while also leading a small engineering team. This role involves designing scalable AI-driven platforms, integrating LLM technologies, and building secure enterprise-grade systems in the healthcare domain.

Key Responsibilities:
. Design and develop scalable Agentic AI and Generative AI platforms using cloud technologies

. Integrate LLMs, MCP servers, and AI interaction protocols into enterprise applications

. Lead secure architecture design for distributed and cloud-based systems

. Manage LLM operations including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and vector search implementations

. Mentor a small engineering team, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering best practices

Required Skills:
. Strong experience with Azure Cloud along with AWS or GCP exposure

. Proficient in Java/J2EE, Go, and Python development

. Hands-on experience in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, and scalable enterprise applications

. Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and security architecture

. Experience with Terraform, API Gateways (Azure APIM, Kong, Envoy), and AI/LLM technologies including RAG and Prompt Engineering

Preferred Qualifications:
. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

. 12. years of experience in software engineering and distributed systems

. Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, and cloud security

. Experience in Healthcare or regulated environments is a plus

Nice to Have:

.Exposure to Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and MCP protocols

.Experience with AI governance or secure AI frameworks

.Multi-cloud architecture experience

.Strong DevOps and CI/CD knowledge

Pay: ₹3,000,000.00 - ₹4,500,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person