Senior Technical Lead
India
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Job Summary

AI/ML Engineer – Technical Skill Set (Agentic AI Focus)     1. Core Programming & Systems Skills  Python (expert level) for ML, orchestration, and agent logic  Strong understanding of async programming, concurrency, and task scheduling  Shape  2. Foundations of Agentic AI  Design and implementation of autonomous AI agents capable of:   Multi‑step reasoning and planning  Goal decomposition and task orchestration  Dynamic decision‑making under uncertainty  Experience with agent architectures:   ReAct, Plan‑and‑Execute, Reflexive agents  Hierarchical / multi‑agent systems  Tool‑augmented and function‑calling agents  Understanding of stateful vs stateless agents and memory management  Shape  3. Large Language Models (LLMs)  Hands‑on experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, open‑source models)  Prompt‑engineering techniques for:  Reasoning (Chain‑of‑Thought, Self‑Reflection)  Planning and critique loops  Instruction following and tool use  Experience with:  Few‑shot and zero‑shot prompting  Model selection trade‑offs (latency, cost, context length)  Knowledge of fine‑tuning / adapters (LoRA) is a plus  Shape  4. Agent Frameworks & Tooling  Practical experience with agent frameworks, such as:   LangGraph / LangChain (agents, tools, memory)  Semantic Kernel  AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar  Ability to build custom agent orchestration layers beyond frameworks  Tool abstraction and execution safety (timeouts, retries, sandboxing)  Shape  5. Memory, Context & Knowledge Augmentation  Design of agent memory systems:   Short‑term (conversation/state memory)  Long‑term (episodic, semantic memory)  Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG):  Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Azure AI Search, etc.)  Embedding selection and chunking strategies  Techniques for context management and compression  Knowledge graph–augmented or hybrid memory (plus)  Shape  6. Planning, Reasoning & Control  Experience implementing:  Task planners (step planning, re‑planning)  Constraint‑based execution  Feedback and self‑correction loops  Understanding of:  Tool reliability scoring  Guardrails and action validation  Failure detection and graceful recovery  Shape  7. MLOps & AgentOps  Deployment of agents into production environments  Observability for agents:  Tracing agent decisions and tool calls  Logging prompts, responses, and errors  Model and prompt versioning  CI/CD for agent systems  Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, serverless deployments (Azure/AWS)  Shape 

8. Evaluation & Testing of Agentic Systems  Designing evaluation frameworks for agents:   Task success rate  Cost, latency, and reliability  Safety and hallucination detection  Offline test harnesses and simulation environments  A/B testing of prompts, tools, and agent strategies 

9. Security, Safety & Responsible AI  Secure tool execution and privilege control  Prompt‑injection and jailbreak risk mitigation  Data privacy and isolation in agent memory  Responsible AI practices:  Bias awareness  Explainability of agent decisions  Human‑in‑the‑loop escalation patterns  Shape 

10. Data & Integration Skills  Integration with:  Enterprise systems (CRM, ERP, databases)  Web services, internal APIs, and SaaS tools  Working knowledge

11. Cloud & Platform Expertise  Strong experience with at least one cloud platform:  Azure (preferred for enterprise agentic AI), AWS, or GCP  Managed AI services, identity & access, secrets management  Cost optimization for

Key Responsibilities

1. To be responsible for providing technical guidance to a team of developers, enhancing their technical capabilities and increasing productivity.
2. To conduct comprehensive code reviews, establish and oversee quality assurance processes, performance optimization , implementation of best practices and coding standards to ensure successful delivery of complex projects.
3. To ensure process compliance in the assigned module| and participate in technical discussions/review as a technical consultant for feasibility study (technical alternatives, best packages, supporting architecture best practices, technical risks, breakdown into components, estimations).
4. To collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables and accordingly prepare and submit status reports for minimizing exposure & closure of escalations.

Skill Requirements

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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 226,300 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 December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.

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