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Summary
AI Studio in India is seeking an AI Solution Architect to drive end-to-end ownership of high-impact AI use-cases from problem framing to production deployment. This role operates at the intersection of business-technology outcomes and applied AI, orchestrating rapid prototyping, scalable architecture design, and delivery of parallel MVPs and products across multiple use-cases within compressed timelines. This role will own fast-delivered MVPs through to UAT and launch into production environments.
What You Will Do
- Engage directly with business stakeholders to surface outcome metrics and validate use-case feasibility
- Drive rapid prototyping cycles followed by elaboration, design and architecture finalization
- Architect enterprise-grade GenAI solutions including RAG, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop systems
- Lead concurrent delivery of multiple AI use-cases ensuring MVP readiness within 4–6 weeks
- Establish architectural guardrails across data, models, orchestration, and deployment
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, and governance standards
- Translate architecture into delivery plans including backlog, sprint planning, and acceptance criteria
- Mentor engineering teams of 10-15 to maintain delivery velocity and design consistency
- Own lifecycle from MVP to production including UAT and operational handover
- Act as primary interface for stakeholders, articulating trade-offs and value realization
What You Will Need
- 8–12 years of experience in AI solution architecture or applied AI delivery
- Experience delivering AI/GenAI solutions from concept to production
- Strong understanding of LLM ecosystems, embeddings, vector databases, and agent frameworks
- Experience building scalable AI pipelines with cost, latency, and observability considerations
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent deliveries under tight timelines
- Solid software engineering fundamentals including CI/CD and infrastructure automation
- Working knowledge of cloud AI services
- Experience implementing data privacy and governance controls
- Ability to translate business problems into structured AI solutions
- Strong stakeholder communication and decision-making skills
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies as well as experience working with tools like JIRA
What Would Be Nice to Have
- Experience across multiple industry domains with automation for AI use-cases
- Exposure to enterprise productization beyond MVP
- Familiarity with Azure AI, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, or Google Vertex AI
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for GenAI systems
- Relevant certifications in cloud, AI or agile methodologies
About Guidehouse India
At Guidehouse India, we’re redefining what’s possible by creating opportunities that change lives. Guidehouse is a global professional services firm that delivers advisory, technology, and managed services to clients across both the commercial and public sectors. Our teams turn bold ideas into solutions that transform industries, strengthen communities, and drive meaningful impact worldwide.
Across our Chennai, Trivandrum, and Gurugram locations, you’ll find opportunities where your passion and curiosity help shape what comes next. With cutting edge benefits, innovative learning and development programs, and a people first culture, we empower our people to lead with purpose.
We continue to expand our teams and capabilities across India, investing in state-of-the-art offices and high impact work. Here, you’ll collaborate with experts from around the world, build deep expertise, explore new domains, and accelerate your professional growth while making a real impact.
What We Offer
At Guidehouse India, we are committed to supporting the well-being of our people and their families at every stage of life. We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you thrive both inside and outside the workplace.
Our benefits include resources such as in house physician consultations, nutritious food options at the workplace, and confidential counseling through our Employee Assistance Program, along with other wellness focused offerings that support your overall well being.
Our comprehensive learning and development programs ensure you’re continuously upskilled and ready to tackle what’s next, so you can shape your own career path while contributing to meaningful, purpose driven work.
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Contact Us
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To learn more about Guidehouse in India, visit www.guidehouse.com/india.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Skills Required
- 8-12 years of experience in AI solution architecture or applied AI delivery
- Experience delivering AI/GenAI solutions from concept to production
- Strong understanding of LLM ecosystems, embeddings, vector databases, and agent frameworks
- Experience building scalable AI pipelines with cost, latency, and observability considerations
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent deliveries under tight timelines
- Solid software engineering fundamentals including CI/CD and infrastructure automation
- Working knowledge of cloud AI services
- Experience implementing data privacy and governance controls
- Ability to translate business problems into structured AI solutions
- Strong stakeholder communication and decision-making skills
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience with tools like JIRA
- Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams of 10-15
- Experience across multiple industry domains with automation for AI use-cases
- Exposure to enterprise productization beyond MVP
- Familiarity with Azure AI, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, or Google Vertex AI
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for GenAI systems
- Relevant certifications in cloud, AI or agile methodologies
Guidehouse Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Guidehouse and has not been reviewed or approved by Guidehouse.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests the benefits package includes broad medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and disability coverage, which is often seen as a strong foundational offering. Access to HSA/FSA options further supports day-to-day healthcare and dependent-care needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests parental leave and adoption assistance are available, alongside an emergency back-up childcare program. These offerings indicate meaningful support for employees managing family responsibilities.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests flexible work options and counseling/EAP-style support are part of the broader rewards mix. Additional lifestyle-oriented perks like community events and referral programs are also described as available in some contexts.
Guidehouse Insights
What We Do
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 12,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies.
