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This role is designed for a senior technical professional who can both define architecture and actively contribute to hands-on implementation. This is not a purely advisory, high-level architecture, or documentation-only role. The selected candidate will be expected to write code, build prototypes, review pull requests, contribute to production systems, and guide engineering teams through delivery. The ideal candidate has strong experience designing and building AI-enabled enterprise applications using Python, Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, Azure cloud infrastructure, C#, .NET, React.js, Node.js, MongoDB or another NoSQL database, and GitHub Actions.\nKey\nResponsibilities Design and build scalable AI-enabled applications across backend, frontend, cloud, data, and AI layers. Architect and implement Generative AI solutions, including RAG-based workflows. Write production-quality code using Python, C#, .NET, React.js, and Node.js. 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