Assistant Vice President/Senior Manager - AI & Innovation Lab
Hiresquad Resources · Mumbai · onsite · Posted 30d ago
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About this role
AI & Innovation Lab - Senior Manager / AVP
Sector: Leading Financial Markets Infrastructure Organisation
Location: Mumbai
Experience: 8 - 12 years
Role Overview:
We are seeking a visionary Technical Architect to anchor our Innovation Lab, spearheading next-generation AI and cloud capabilities for India's financial markets. This role demands a proven technology leader with hands-on expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and AI platform engineering within regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and scale production-grade AI solutions for mission-critical financial systems.
- Lead design and deployment of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and APIs.
- Establish and mature Innovation Lab / CoE frameworks within regulated financial institutions.
- Drive adoption of LLM architectures, RAG pipelines, agentic orchestration, model gateways, and guardrails.
- Engineer secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure across sovereign cloud and on-premise environments.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver innovation aligned with market infrastructure needs.
Non-Negotiable Requirements:
- Education: BE/BTech/MCA in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, or related discipline.
- Experience: 8 - 12 years in software engineering, including:
1. 3+ years architecting and scaling AI solutions as Tech Lead/Architect.
2. 5+ years in distributed systems, microservices, APIs.
3. 3+ years in cloud architecture with Kubernetes & Terraform.
- Proven expertise in AI platform engineering, GPU infrastructure, sovereign cloud/on-premise environments.
- Prior experience setting up Innovation Labs, CoEs, or greenfield tech units in banks, exchanges, clearing houses, depositories, or large NBFCs.
- Strong depth in regulated environment architecture and security.
- Hands-on proficiency with:
1. Languages/Frameworks: Python, FastAPI
2. Containers/Orchestration: Docker/Podman, Kubernetes
3. IaC: Terraform
4. Databases: PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Kafka, graph & vector databases
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