Tata Consultancy Services

AI Architect

Tata Consultancy Services$140K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in technology architecture, 4+ years in AI/ML, GenAI, LLM, and enterprise architecture.
  • Hands-on design experience with Anthropic Claude solutions via Amazon Bedrock.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services: Bedrock, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, and more.
  • Experience in agentic AI patterns: planning, tool use, memory management, and observability.
  • Familiarity with RAG architecture and enterprise data integration strategies.
  • Understanding of AI governance and compliance in regulated environments, especially finance.
  • Ability to integrate AI solutions with in-house platforms and manage APIs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, design, and implementation of AI solutions on AWS and internal platforms.
  • Collaborate with teams to translate use cases into scalable architectures and roadmaps.
  • Define solution patterns, non-functional requirements, and deployment strategies.
  • Design workflows and frameworks for AI agent performance and exception handling.
  • Oversee production readiness through testing, reliability, and monitoring frameworks.
  • Ensure adherence to security, privacy, and model governance requirements.
  • Provide technical leadership and support for engineering teams, ensuring quality standards.

Benefits

  • Discretionary Annual Incentive.
  • Comprehensive Medical Coverage, including dental and vision.
  • Family Support including maternal and parental leave.
  • Insurance options for auto, home, and identity theft protection.
  • Convenience benefits like commuter support and training reimbursement.
  • Generous time off, including vacation and sick leave.
  • Legal and financial assistance including 401K options and performance bonuses.
Full Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
• 12+ years of technology architecture experience with 4+ years in AI/ML, GenAI, LLM and enterprise solution architecture.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Anthropic Claude based solutions, preferably through Amazon Bedrock, including prompt engineering, tool/function calling, agent orchestration and evaluation.
• Strong AWS architecture experience across Bedrock, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, S3, IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building agentic AI patterns including planning, tool use, memory, guardrails, approvals, HITL workflows, exception management and observability.
• Proven experience with RAG architecture, vector databases/semantic search, embeddings, knowledge ingestion, document processing and enterprise data integration.
• Good understanding of AI governance, security, privacy, model risk, responsible AI, data leakage controls and auditability in regulated financial services environments.
• Functional exposure to Asset Management / Investment Operations / Distribution / Client Reporting / Middle Office processes is strongly preferred.
• Ability to integrate AI solutions with in-house platforms, APIs, workflow tools, data platforms and enterprise identity/access management capabilities.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end architecture, design and implementation of Claude based Agentic AI solutions on AWS cloud and enterprise internal platforms.
• Partner with business, domain SMEs, security, cloud, data and engineering teams to translate use cases into scalable technical architectures and delivery roadmaps.
• Define reference architecture, solution patterns, NFRs, integration approach, guardrails, DevSecOps model, deployment strategy and operating model.
• Design agent workflows, prompt/tool frameworks, RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, human review checkpoints and exception handling patterns.
• Drive PoCs/MVPs through production readiness including performance, reliability, cost optimization, monitoring, testing and AI evaluation frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, model governance, audit, IAM, encryption, logging and data residency requirements.
• Provide technical leadership to onsite/offshore engineering teams, conduct design reviews, resolve blockers and ensure engineering quality.
• Create architecture artifacts, executive walkthroughs, design documents, backlog epics/stories, estimation inputs and implementation plans.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills with ability to simplify complex AI architecture for business and technology audiences.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams across business, cloud, data, security, architecture and delivery functions.
• Experience managing ambiguity, prioritizing use cases, defining MVP scope and driving outcomes in a fast-paced client environment.
• Strong estimation, planning, risk management, dependency management and issue resolution skills.
• Ability to mentor engineers, establish best practices and drive adoption of reusable AI engineering patterns.
• Excellent written communication, presentation, documentation and governance reporting skills.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Salary Range: $140,000 - 160,000 a year

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries. TCS is the largest Indian company by market capitalization and is ranked 11th on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's biggest public companies. TCS is also the second-largest IT services company in the world by revenue and the largest employer of women in India. The company provides services in areas including IT, consulting, and business solutions.
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