Agentic Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution design from business problem to target architecture, integration and deployment blueprint.
• Design single and multi-agent workflows, tool calling, memory, retrieval and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Define security, resilience, latency, cost, observability and scalability requirements.
• Select models, cloud services, vector search and frameworks; assess build versus buy.
• Set standards and guardrails, review designs, and partner with product, cloud and AI governance.
• Embed AIDLC in design: stage gates, governance checkpoints and architecture decision records.

Must-Have Skills

• Architecture: Architecture and distributed systems; hands-on software engineering; secure cloud architecture; API, data and identity integration.
• Agentic AI: LLM, RAG and agentic patterns; tool calling, state and memory; agent evaluation; build-versus-buy trade-offs.
• Security (banking-critical): Least-privilege tool access; prompt-injection defence; approval gates for risky actions; audit trails, model risk and residency.
• AIDLC (mandatory): Defines AIDLC stages and gates; evaluation and release criteria; governance checkpoints; architecture decision records.

Good-to-Have Skills

• LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen.
• Enterprise search and vector databases.
• Event-driven systems and microservices.
• Red-teaming and LLM observability.
• Model governance and AI safety.
• Disaster recovery and FinOps modelling.