Job ID: JOB_ID_3181
Job Title: AI Tech Lead – Azure AI
We are looking for an experienced AI Tech Lead with strong Azure AI expertise to architect, design, and lead end-to-end AI/GenAI solutions across enterprise programs. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise and leadership to drive AI adoption, guide technical teams, and collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant AI delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- AI Solution Architecture & Design: Lead the architecture and design of AI/ML/GenAI solutions including LLMs, prompt engineering, vector search, RAG, NLP, computer vision, and MLOps. Evaluate and select appropriate AI frameworks, models (open-source & proprietary), cloud services, and data pipelines. Define scalable architectures using Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments. Drive RAG pipelines, model fine-tuning, and embeddings strategy for enterprise use cases.
- Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide a team of AI engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and automation engineers. Conduct code reviews, design reviews, and ensure best practices in AI and software engineering. Build reusable AI components, accelerators, and frameworks for the organization.
- Delivery & Execution: Translate business requirements into technical specifications and AI solution approaches. Lead POCs, pilots, and AI product lifecycle from ideation to deployment. Ensure accuracy, performance, and reliability of AI systems through evaluations, testing, and optimizations. Coordinate with DevOps/MLOps teams for CI/CD pipelines, model deployment, monitoring, and observability.
- Data Engineering & Governance: Work closely with data engineering teams to define data ingestion, cleansing, feature engineering, and model training datasets. Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance, privacy, security, and ethical AI guidelines. Set up monitoring systems for model drift, data drift, and performance degradation.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, architects, QA and Validation leads, and delivery partners. Communicate technical concepts in a simple, business-friendly manner. Prepare architecture documents, solution blueprints, and presentations for leadership reviews.
Essential Skills:
- Azure AI Knowledge is a must.
- Experience with AI/ML/GenAI solutions (LLMs, prompt engineering, vector search, RAG, NLP, computer vision, MLOps).
- Proficiency in designing scalable architectures on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Strong understanding of data engineering principles and data governance.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and MLOps practices.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience in a technical leadership role for AI/ML projects.
- Experience with Azure AI services is highly preferred.
This is a contract position based in Boston, MA.
Special Requirements
Azure AI Knowledge is must.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $120,000 – $180,000 per year (Estimated)
Location: Boston, MA
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