Generative AI - Software Engineer - Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary:

As a Generative AI - Software Engineer - Senior Associate, you will play a pivotal role in transforming raw data into actionable insights, enabling informed decision-making and driving business growth. Within our Data and Analytics Engineering practice, you will leverage advanced analytics and statistical techniques to extract insights from large datasets, focusing on exploratory and descriptive analysis, statistical modeling, and creating data visualizations to solve complex business problems and inform strategic decisions.

As a Senior Associate, you will build meaningful client connections and learn how to manage and inspire others. You will navigate increasingly complex situations, growing your personal brand and deepening your technical skills. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, delivering quality work while embracing increased ambiguity. You will use critical thinking to break down complex concepts and develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is evolving.

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will respond effectively to diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others, using a broad range of tools and methodologies to generate new ideas and solve problems. You will uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards, contributing to the firm's overall business strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into backend functionalities for GenAI and Agentic AI projects.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend solutions, including event-driven architectures and integration with external systems/APIs.
• Manage data storage solutions using relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases to support AI applications in production.
• Utilize containerization (Kubernetes) and implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), for efficient deployment and scalability.
• Build and integrate APIs using Python frameworks (Flask, FastAPI) and collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and DevOps teams for seamless AI model deployment.

What You Must Have:

• Bachelor's & Master's Degree
• 4 years of experience
• Oral and written proficiency in English required

What Sets You Apart:

• Proficient with LLM interaction frameworks like LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and LlamaIndex, and experienced in integrating, scaling, and deploying GenAI and agentic applications in production.
• Skilled in setting up data pipelines for both model training and real-time inference to support AI workloads efficiently.
• Advanced Python expertise including OOP, asynchronous programming (asyncio), concurrency (multithreading, multiprocessing), design patterns, memory management, and performance optimization for scalable GenAI systems.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, software design principles (SOLID, clean architecture), and hands-on experience with cloud-native development on Azure/AWS, including serverless, microservices, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with additional OOP languages (Java, C++, C#) and familiarity with WebSocket implementations for real-time application functionality.