Tech Lead (AI) (Python)

Role: Tech Lead (AI) (Python)
Location: New York City, NY (3 days onsite in a week)
Position Type: Fulltime

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Python-based backend services supporting NLP and chatbot solutions
• Contribute to technology transformation initiatives, driving innovation and adoption of cloud-native platforms
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements, priorities, and objectives
• Translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure technical solutions
• Act as a local liaison between New York and India technology teams, ensuring effective communication and delivery alignment
• Build and maintain strong, long-term partnerships with business and technology stakeholders
• Provide thought leadership on backend, NLP, and conversational AI solutions and identify opportunities where technology can improve business outcomes
• Support development, testing, deployment, and operational readiness of applications

Required Skills & Experience

• Full stack development with strong knowledge in Python in a Unix environment.
• SOA: Webservices (REST/SOAP), XML/JSON Processing, Swagger, Open Spec
• Experience with Gen AI based applications, LLM, Agentic, RAG and Vector DB
• Messaging: IBM MQ/JMS
• Source Control, Build Packaging: Git, Ivy, Maven/Gradle
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design, SOLID principles, Clean code, Refactoring, Design patterns
• Test Automation (Unit Test and/or Functional Testing)
• Solution Design and Architecture
• Distributed application design
• Cloud architectures, Performance Engineering, Scaling
• Deep familiarity with modern software development and design concepts encompassing a range of languages and platforms.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Ability to work effectively in a global, distributed team environment

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience in Web Development using modern UI frameworks (Bootstrap or similar)
• Knowledge of PowerShell or Unix shell scripting
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:

• TFS / Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• TeamCity
• Build and release automation
• A/B testing frameworks

• Experience developing cloud-native applications on:

• AWS, Azure, or OpenShift

• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools
• Understanding of Microservices and Serverless architectures