Principal Agentic AI Engineer / Hands-on Technical Lead at NTT DATA
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About the Role
NTT DATA is hiring a Principal Agentic AI Engineer / Hands-on Technical Lead in Hyderabad to lead a compact Agentic AI SWAT team delivering production-grade agentic implementations within an established enterprise AI ecosystem.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role designing, coding, reviewing, and deploying alongside the engineering team.
What you'll do
- Decompose end-to-end processes identifying decision points and measurable outcomes
- Determine where agentic AI is appropriate and define autonomy boundaries and fallbacks
- Design and build production agents, APIs, microservices, retrieval, and integrations
- Define MCP server and tool patterns with auth, error handling, and observability
- Guide multi-agent orchestration, model routing, state management, and exception handling
- Establish structured evaluation for task success, groundedness, and regression prevention
- Contribute to code, conduct reviews, resolve technical issues, and mentor engineers
- Create reusable patterns, runbooks, and documentation for internal scaling
What we're looking for
- 10+ years software, platform, AI/ML, or distributed-systems engineering with recent coding
- Production delivery of LLM, RAG, agentic AI, or intelligent application solutions
- Strong Python, Java, or TypeScript with full-stack capability
- Deep agent patterns: tool calling, context engineering, RAG, human-in-the-loop controls
Skills & Technologies
Required
Benefits & Perks
- Health Insurance
- Flexible Leave Policy
- Learning Budget
- EPF / NPS
Why This Role is Good for Experienced Professionals
- Lead hands-on agentic AI delivery plugging into enterprise MCP, governance, and production pipelines.
- Lead Agentic AI SWAT team evaluating business processes and solution patterns
- Process-to-solution assessment: agents, workflows, retrieval, or hybrid patterns
- Design and build production agents, MCP tools, and orchestration services
- Define MCP server patterns, tool schemas, auth, observability, and versioning
- Establish evaluation for groundedness, tool correctness, safety, latency, cost
- Hands-on code contribution, reviews, debugging, and release readiness
- Mentor engineers and create reusable patterns for internal scaling
- Language-, cloud-, model-, and framework-agnostic enterprise delivery
About NTT DATA
- Industry
- Technology
- Company Size
- 500+
- Website
- nttdata.com
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Job Details
- Type
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 10–14 years
- Location
- Hyderabad or Noida, India
- Work Mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- AI / ML
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