IN_Senior Associate_AI Engineer_Data and Analytics_Advisory_Bangalore
PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLPThis role involves building and deploying AI features powered by large language models (LLMs) and agentic workflows on the Azure cloud platform. The Senior Associate will integrate with MLOps, design workflows using tool and function calling, and develop RAG-based solutions. Responsibilities include optimizing AI applications for performance and reliability, partnering with other teams for governance, and documenting solutions.
Line of Service
AdvisoryIndustry/Sector
Not ApplicableSpecialism
Data, Analytics & AIManagement Level
Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilise advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimise their operations and achieve their strategic goals.In business intelligence at PwC, you will focus on leveraging data and analytics to provide strategic insights and drive informed decision-making for clients. You will develop and implement innovative solutions to optimise business performance and enhance competitive advantage.
Responsibilities:
- Build application-facing AI features powered by LLMs, agentic workflows, and AI orchestration platforms.
- Integrate with MLOps-managed agents and consume LLM capabilities through AI Gateway patterns including routing, authentication, policy controls, and logging.
- Design and implement agentic workflows using tool calling, function calling, context handling, prompt/version management, and orchestration patterns.
- Work with Agentic Layer A2A frameworks and MCP Protocol to enable interoperable agent communication and workflow execution.
- Develop RAG-based solutions using vector embeddings, vector databases, Azure AI Search, Redis, Cosmos DB, and relevant cloud data stores.
- Build and orchestrate LLM-powered applications using LangChain, LangGraph, and related frameworks.
- Deploy scalable AI solutions on Azure using Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Optimize AI applications for latency, scalability, reliability, cost, and performance.
- Implement production readiness practices including testing, observability, monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, safety controls, and incident support.
- Partner with security, compliance, architecture, and platform teams to meet governance, data protection, and enterprise control requirements.
- Document integration patterns, architecture, operational runbooks, evaluation practices, and reusable engineering components.
Mandatory Skill Sets:
- Experience building production AI integrations using LLMs, agents, orchestration frameworks, and APIs.
- Hands-on experience with Agentic AI, A2A frameworks, MCP Protocol, tool/function calling, and workflow orchestration.
- Strong expertise in vector embeddings, prompt engineering, prompt versioning, context engineering, and RAG.
- Experience with LangChain and LangGraph.
- Strong programming skills in Python and at least one backend language such as Java or Node.js.
- Proficiency in Azure Cloud deployment.
- Experience with Azure AI Search, vector databases, Redis, Cosmos DB, and related data platforms.
- Proven ability to design and manage Azure Functions and Azure Container Apps.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, observability, reliability, secure integration, and production support.
- Familiarity with evaluation methods, guardrails, monitoring, and safety/quality controls.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Strong interpersonal / good negotiations skills are required.
Preferred Skill Sets:
- Experience with Blob Storage, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and MLOps pipelines.
- Exposure to Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, AWS AI services, or multi-cloud AI platforms.
- Experience with enterprise AI Gateway patterns, policy enforcement, and GenAI governance.
- Experience building reusable AI starter kits, orchestration templates, evaluation harnesses, or observability frameworks.
- Knowledge of responsible AI, data privacy, compliance, and secure enterprise AI delivery.
Years of experience required:
4-8 Yrs
Education qualification:
B.E, B.Tech, M.E, MCA, M.Tech
Education
Degrees/Field of Study required: Master of Engineering, Bachelor of EngineeringDegrees/Field of Study preferred:Required Skills
Airflow ManagementOptional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Analytical Thinking, Applied Macroeconomics, Business Case Development, Business Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), Business Intelligence Development Studio, Communication, Competitive Advantage, Continuous Process Improvement, Creativity, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Architecture, Database Management System (DBMS), Data Collection, Data Pipeline, Data Quality, Data Science, Data Visualization, Digital Tooling, Embracing Change {+ 27 more}Travel Requirements
Not SpecifiedAvailable for Work Visa Sponsorship?
NoGovernment Clearance Required?
NoJob Posting End Date
April 15, 2026
