What Working at Hexaware offers:
Hexaware is a dynamic and innovative IT organization committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients worldwide. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where every team member is valued and empowered to succeed. Hexaware provides access to a vast array of tools that enhance, revolutionize, and advance professional profile. We complete the circle with excellent growth opportunities, chances to collaborate with highly visible customers, chances to work alongside bright brains, and the perfect work-life balance. With an ever-expanding portfolio of capabilities, we delve deep into and identify the source of our motivation. Although technology is at the core of our solutions, it is still the people and their passion that fuel Hexaware s commitment towards creating smiles. At Hexaware we encourage to challenge oneself to achieve full potential and propel growth. We trust and empower to disrupt the status quo and innovate for a better future. We encourage an open and inspiring culture that fosters learning and brings talented, passionate, and caring people together. We are always interested in, and want to support, the professional and personal you. We offer a wide array of programs to help expand skills and supercharge careers. We help discover passion the driving force that makes one smile and innovate, create, and make a difference every day.
What would you do?
Position: AI Architect
Location: Washington, DC (3-4 days onsite)
Fulltime
Role Overview
Lead the evaluation, design, and delivery of enterprise-grade AI and cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. You will drive rapid proof-of-concepts, shape enterprise architecture, and provide hands-on leadership from ideation through production, accelerating delivery with AI-assisted development practices.
Primary Objectives
- Identify and evaluate emerging AI and cloud technologies relevant to business needs.
- Design and implement proof-of-concepts to validate business and technical feasibility.
- Define enterprise architecture and production-readiness requirements for selected solutions.
- Establish scalable, secure, and maintainable Azure-based solution architectures.
- Accelerate software delivery through AI-assisted development practices.
- Provide architectural leadership across the solution lifecycle from idea to production.
Scope of Work (Responsibilities)
- Conduct market research on AI platforms, foundation models, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, developer tools, and enterprise AI products.
- Analyze vendor offerings, market trends, product maturity, security considerations, and implementation models.
- Assess solutions against business requirements, enterprise architecture standards, and regulatory obligations.
- Design end-to-end solution architectures leveraging Microsoft Azure services.
- Define architecture patterns for AI, cloud-native applications, integrations, APIs, data platforms, and automation.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.
- Develop architecture artifacts, design documents, and implementation roadmaps.
- Integrate GenAI agents with back-end services, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Ensure production readiness, including robust error handling, retries, idempotency, observability, logging, and monitoring.
- Participate in the full SDLC: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to refine requirements and solution vision.
- Support project teams via architecture reviews, technical assessments, and implementation planning.
- Participate in architecture governance forums and design reviews.
- Mentor engineering teams on modern cloud and AI architecture practices.
- Contribute to shared engineering standards, best practices, and code reviews.
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives).
Skills and Experience (Required)
- Bachelor s or Master s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
- 5+ years designing enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating emerging technologies and conducting technical market assessments.
- Proven delivery of proof-of-concepts and scaling them to production environments.
- Experience leading enterprise architecture and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Success working in complex enterprises with cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of production engineering: error handling, retries, idempotency, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Proficiency building APIs with FastAPI or similar frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
- Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces and make sound engineering trade-offs.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills; comfortable working across time zones.
Equal Opportunities Employer:
Hexaware Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Hexaware are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate based on race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, parental status, gender reassignment, or any other status protected by law. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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