Senior Technical Lead
India
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka

Job Summary

MLOps Engineer / Developer
Snapshot
Experience: 4–6 years in ML/AI engineering or DevOps
Reports To: MLOps Technical Lead / Manager, AIML
Education: B.E./B.Tech in CS, Software Engineering, or Data Science
About the Role
Build and operate the MLOps pipelines that take AI/ML and GenAI models from experimentation to production — packaging, CI/CD delivery, model serving, and monitoring. A hands-on engineering role bridging data science and enterprise deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end pipelines — data ingestion, training, evaluation, packaging, versioning, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain Jenkins CI/CD for Dev → QA → Production promotion with multi-stage gates.
• Deploy model-serving APIs on AKS using FastAPI and vLLM; apply ONNX/TensorRT optimizations.
• Set up observability — drift detection (Evidently AI), Prometheus/Grafana, Azure Monitor.
• Apply DevSecOps practices — Key Vault, Managed Identity, SonarQube, Trivy/Snyk.
• Application Development – REST, WebSocket Frameworks using FastAPI

Skill Requirements

• 4+ years in ML/AI engineering or DevOps with hands-on production MLOps pipeline experience.
• CI/CD tooling: CI tooling (UV, Ruff, Pyrefly), Jenkins (strong), Azure DevOps, GitOps concepts; Git and pre-commit workflows.
• Databricks ML pipelines (Delta Lake, Workflows, MLflow), Asset Bundles and PySpark for data processing.
• Model serving: FastAPI, Docker, AKS; exposure to vLLM and ONNX/TensorRT optimization.
• Python (strong — FastAPI, Pydantic, async), Bash, YAML/SQL scripting.
• Cloud knowledge – Azure/AWS/GCP Storage, AI related services.
• Databases and storage: PostgreSQL, Redis, ADLS Gen2.
• Understanding of containerization, Helm, and infrastructure automation.
Nice to Have
• Airflow, DVC, and experiment tracking (W&B / Comet ML).
• Terraform, KEDA, Azure APIM, and AAD RBAC configuration.
• LLM fine-tuning pipelines; Ray Serve or BentoML exposure.
• Groovy (Jenkinsfile).
• Manufacturing or semiconductor domain experience.

Other Requirements

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 223,000 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 June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.