Custom Software Engineering Lead

Location: Mumbai

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Project Role : Custom Software Engineering Lead
Project Role Description : Own the technical direction and architecture of custom software solutions, leading teams through design and delivery. Set development standards and ensure code quality, scalability, and performance aligned to business objectives.
Must have skills : Python (Programming Language)
Good to have skills : AI & Data Solution Architecture
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary
Seeking a highly experienced Python + AI-GenAI Application Lead with Python development and AI-GenAI experience. The ideal candidate should have strong practical expertise in designing and delivering enterprise-grade GenAI applications, RAG solutions, Agentic AI workflows, Vector Search platforms, and scalable data processing systems. The role requires a technical leader who can drive architecture, mentor teams, and lead end-to-end solution delivery.

Experience
5+ years of hands-on Python development experience
2+ years of AI-GenAI-RAG and LLM application development

Roles & Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of AI-powered enterprise applications using Python.
Build and deploy GenAI applications with natural language interfaces.
Design and optimize RAG, Text-to-SQL, Semantic Search, and Agentic AI solutions.
Integrate and orchestrate LLMs from OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, and similar platforms.
Design and implement scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines.
Develop and manage embeddings, vector stores, and retrieval frameworks.
Establish monitoring, observability, and performance dashboards using Grafana.
Drive technical design decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and best practices.
Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure AI solutions.

Must Have Skills:-
Python & Backend
5+ years of hands-on Python development experience
Python, OOPs, Design Patterns, Unit Testing
FastAPI, Flask, Django REST Framework
SQL, Data Modeling, Shell Scripting
Pandas, NumPy, DataFrames
Authentication & Authorization (JWT-OAuth-SSO)
Performance Tuning & Code Optimization
AI - GenAI (Mandatory)
2+ years of hands-on AI-GenAI application development experience
LLM Integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or similar)
GenAI Tooling and Natural Language Interface Development
Agentic AI Workflows
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Development & Optimization
Text-to-SQL Solutions
LangChain, LangGraph, Sentence Transformers
Hugging Face Transformers
Vector Search & Semantic Search
Embedding Models (OpenAI, BERT, or similar)
Vector Databases (FAISS, Qdrant, Weaviate, or similar)
Create and manage Embeddings and Vector Stores
Design and implement efficient Data Ingestion & Processing Pipelines
Grafana Monitoring & Observability
DevOps & Delivery
Git, CI-CD
Enterprise Application Development
Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

Good to Have
Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock
LlamaIndex, MCP
Docker, Kubernetes
AWS - Azure Cloud
Microservices Architecture
Additional Requirements
Strong hands-on coding experience is mandatory.
Must be capable of leading a small team and driving technical decisions.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Experience building production-ready AI-GenAI solutions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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