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Principal Engineer AI, Data & Cloud @ Virtusa

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Virtusa  Principal Engineer AI, Data & Cloud

Job Description

Job Description for Principal Engineer AI, Data & Cloud in Chennai, TN:

Key responsibilities

Technical leadership:

  • Define solution and data architectures; set engineering standards; make build/buy/reuse decisions across app, data, and AI components.

Delivery ownership:

  • Own roadmap execution from discovery to production; break down work, manage risks/dependencies, and ensure quality, reliability, and cost control.

Software engineering:

  • Guide implementation in modern stacks (e.g., React/TypeScript, Python/Node/Java); enforce CI/CD, testing, secure coding, and performance practices.

Cloud engineering:

  • Design and operate workloads on AWS (or equivalent) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), networking, security (IAM Roles, least privilege), observability, resilience, and FinOps.

AI engineering:

  • Integrate LLM/RAG/agents safely (Bedrock/OpenAI), define guardrails, evaluation, and monitoring; establish LLMOps for reliable updates and traceability.

Data engineering:

  • Lead ingestion, transformation, and orchestration (e.g., SnapLogic/Airflow), data modeling, quality (DQ rules), lineage, and SLAs across batch/streaming.

Data Platform integration:

  • Leverage and extend the enterprise Data Platform (e.g., Snowflake, governance catalog) for standardized pipelines, access controls, cost optimization, and reuse.

Compliance and security:

  • Ensure adherence to AZ standards, privacy, and (where relevant) GxP; automate controls (policy as code, secret detection) with auditready evidence.

Stakeholder management:

  • Partner with Product, Arve systems; proven delivery across app, data, and AI components.

Cloud:

  • AWS (or similar) VPC, IAM Roles, ECS/EKS/Lambda, S3, API Gateway; IaC; observability (CloudWatch); reliability and cost optimization.

Software:

  • React/TypeScript and/or Python/Node/Java; REST/GraphQL; eventdriven patterns; automated testing; performance engineering.

AI:

  • LLMs and agent frameworks (RAG, vector stores), prompt/guardrails, evaluation/telemetry; secure integration of foundation models.

Data engineering:

  • ETL/ELT design, SQL, data modeling, orchestration, CDC, streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), data quality and lineage.

Data Platform:

  • Handson with Snowflake (warehouses, roles, policies, cost controls), governance and catalog tooling.

DevOps:

  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions), containers, dependency and secret management.

Security/compliance:

  • Identity and access control, least privilege, encryption, and regulated environment awareness

Job Classification

Industry: Financial Services
Functional Area / Department: Healthcare & Life Sciences
Role Category: Healthcare & Life Sciences - Other
Role: Healthcare & Life Sciences - Other
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Virtusa
Location(s): Hyderabad

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Keyskills:   LLM / Generative AI AWS / Cloud Data Engineering

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