Principal Developer - AI & Digital

Position : Principal Developer

Role : AI & Digital

Service Line : Enterprise Support Operations

Employment Type : Permanent

Work Arrangement : Hybrid

Location : Gurgaon

About the role :

Our Innovation Hub primarily focuses on bringing innovation to service delivery focused business lines and other internal functions. We believe that transformational technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and data analytics have the potential to disrupt our business solutions. Adopting these new-age technologies will help us serve clients better.

As a Principal Developer with AI & Digital, you will have the opportunity at every step to interact with Pierag leadership.

The Principal Developer acts as the technical anchor for a cross-functional team focused on experimenting with disruptive opportunities in a variety of business areas - such as Operational Accounting, Technical Accounting, Internal Audit, External audit, financial reporting and ESG space.

Key responsibilities :

- Prototype Innovation Concepts : Rapidly design, build, and test technical proof of concepts (PoC) for new and emerging technologies utilising industry standard tools.

- Lead Technical Discovery : Identify promising emerging technologies such as GenAI, Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation etc., assessing their application to real world challenges in finance domain.

- Deliver Solution Proposals : Develop and communicate strategically aligned solution proposals - covering options, costs, and recommendations, ensuring adherence to Admiral architecture and Cyber Security standards.

- Architect Experimental Infrastructure : Maintain a secure development environment for the delivery of prototype/experimental applications.

- Collaboration with Functional teams : Collaborate with Functional teams to build PoC/PoV applications, supporting detailed design creation and technical solution delivery.

- Agile Management : Take responsibility for day-to-day agile management activities, coaching, line management of the innovation team members.

- Plan, estimate and execute systems development work to time, budget and quality targets - working closely with Service Line leaders.

Experience and skills required :

Essential :

- Experience in agile, fast-paced environments focused on technology innovation.

- Extensive software engineering experience - with at-least 5+ years of hands-on experience in building AI / ML applications.

- Proven track record in building early-stage prototypes or MVPs - ideally in an innovation setting.

- Proven track record in leading technical teams.

- Strong programming skills (ideally in Python, Node.js, Flask, Django or similar) and familiarity with AI/ML technical stacks (PyTorch, LangChain, HuggingFace, OpenAI, Vertex AI).

- Experience with either of cloud platforms (ideally Google or AWS), containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.

- Proactive in identifying and acting on opportunities for improvement / innovation.

- Conducting structured reviews of technical work products, test plans, business cases, and key deliverables.

- Keeping objectives and strategies in mind and ensuring courses of action are aligned with the strategic context.

- Effective, approachable, and sensitive communicator in different communities and cultures.

- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.

- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable :

- Possesses a strong understanding and proficiency in IT Architectures, with a particular emphasis on Solution Architectures.

- Combines technical competence with business and commercial awareness and first class communications skills.

- Methods and techniques for delivering effective presentations, either face-to-face or online within various contexts and to a variety of audiences.

- Identifying gaps in the available information required to understand a problem or situation and devising a means of resolving them.

- Establishing relationships, contributing to an open culture, and maintaining contacts with people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.

- Understanding commercial considerations and ensuring alignment with them when making decisions or recommending actions.

- Understanding underlying issues in complex problems through the development of abstract representations, the identification of patterns and the analysis of hypotheses.

Skills

Agentic AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, OpenAI, Vertex AI, Python, LangChain, PyTorch, Artificial Intelligence