We are looking for an experienced Head of AI Center of Excellence to drive the enterprise AI strategy and lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI solutions.

The role will focus on building agentic AI systems, accelerating AI experimentation, and delivering pilot-ready PoCs that can be scaled into business solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead the AI Center of Excellence and execute the organisation's enterprise AI strategy.

- Design, develop, and deploy agentic AI architectures and LLM-based solutions for enterprise use cases.

- Lead the development, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of ML/DL models.

- Drive rapid experimentation and deliver pilot-ready AI PoCs within defined timelines.

- Define and implement MLOps practices covering model deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.

- Lead and mentor AI/ML engineering teams across multiple projects, ensuring quality and timely delivery.

- Work with business and technology stakeholders to identify AI opportunities and translate them into scalable technical solutions.

- Evaluate and adopt relevant AI/ML frameworks, orchestration platforms, cloud AI services, and emerging technologies.

- Ensure AI solutions are production-ready, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise requirements.

Required Candidate Profile :

- 6+ years of overall experience in software development and project management, with 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML system design and development.

- Bachelor's degree in B.Tech or equivalent.

- Proven experience managing AI/ML engineering teams and multiple projects.

- Strong expertise in :

1. Agentic AI architectures, LLM-based systems, and orchestration frameworks

2. ML/DL model development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation

3. MLOps, model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management

- Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML frameworks such as LangGraph, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face.

- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and their AI/ML services.

- Demonstrated ability to rapidly develop and deliver AI PoCs and production-ready solutions.

- Strong technical leadership, project management, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.