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

Job Summary

Reports to

Programme Tech Lead

Capabilities covered

Standardized Data Platform Architecture; Standardized AI/ML Framework; MLOps Maturity; AI/ML Infrastructure Enhancements

Location

Prudential VCC Bangalore (preferred)

 

Role summary

Lead the design and conformance of the cloud-agnostic MLOps framework and AI/ML infrastructure (vector search, embeddings) across Azure Databricks and GCP Vertex AI.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain the standardised AI/ML framework design covering experimentation, code versioning, CI/CD, feature management, deployment, inference and monitoring.
  • Validate the AI/ML infrastructure baseline at mobilisation, close spillover and support adoption; do not restart completed work.
  • Guide self-service Terraform templates for vector search and embedding infrastructure in Databricks and Vertex AI.
  • Oversee MLOps framework rollout to remaining LBUs and ensure co-existence with the AI Platform (Scope 3) capabilities.
  • Review designs from ML Integration Engineers for security, scalability and Group standards alignment.

Skill Requirements

Must-have skills and experience

  • 7–10 years in ML/AI architecture with production MLOps experience.
  • Hands-on MLflow, Databricks ML, and/or Vertex AI pipelines and model registries.
  • Experience designing cloud-agnostic ML platforms and CI/CD for ML.
  • Good understanding of vector search, embeddings and GPU/compute optimisation.

Good to have

  • Exposure to GenAIOps, LLM gateways and RAG patterns.
  • Insurance or BFSI ML use cases (fraud, churn, claims).

Certifications (within 90 days of assignment)

  • Databricks ML Professional / Generative AI Engineer
  • GCP Professional Machine Learning Engineer
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate

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 230,000 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 September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.