AI/ Data / COE/ Lab/ Practice Principal
India
Job Description
AI/ Data / COE/ Lab/ Practice Principal
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Job Summary

Practice Principal Forward-Deployed Engineering Roles: That require deep platform understanding, ability to proactively identify future needs of client and have good solution architecture knowledge.

Job Summary

Lead endtoend deployment of scalable Generative AI and agentic systems in complex customer environments. Partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to transform customer workflows into robust, productiongrade solutions with strong evaluation practices, safety guardrails, observability, and operational reliability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead customerembedded deployments from discovery through pilot, stabilization, and full production rollout
  • Design multiagent workflows, enterprisegrade RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, and integration patterns
  • Build evaluation harnesses, safety/ethical guardrails, monitoring dashboards, and failuremode detection
  • Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost for LLMpowered applications at scale
  • Diagnose and resolve issues across agents, APIs, data layers, and modelserving infrastructure
  • Produce reusable architectural patterns, reference implementations, and platform feedback for product teams
  • Work closely with security, governance, and platform engineering teams on responsible deployment practices
  • Mentor Forward Deployment Engineers, guide design reviews, and set engineering quality bars
  • Represent engineering in customer conversations, articulating tradeoffs, risks, and solution paths

Skill Requirements

  • Strong Python engineering background
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying LLM/GenAI solutions
  • Cloud architecture and deployment experience (Azure / AWS / GCP)
  • Excellent clientfacing communication and problemsolving skills

Other Requirements

Experience Requirements

Principallevel ownership of multiple customer deployments, driving solution design, integration, testing, evaluation, and stabilization. Leads design reviews, sets engineering and documentation standards, mentors teams, and ensures productiongrade delivery across diverse customer environments.

Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 227,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending March 2026 totaled $14.7 billion.