Director AI Architect – Data & Analytics Advisory

About the role

PwC is seeking a Director‑level AI Architect to lead data and analytics initiatives for its Advisory practice in Bengaluru. You will shape AI‑driven solutions that deliver strategic insights, optimise business performance and create competitive advantage for clients.

Key responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end ML pipelines for experiment, model and feature management, including APIs for large‑scale inference.
• Build and serve large language models (LLMs) on GPU architectures, leveraging distributed training and parallelism with frameworks such as DeepSpeed and vLLM.
• Fine‑tune and optimise models to improve latency, accuracy and resource efficiency.
• Implement DevOps and LLMOps practices using Kubernetes, Docker and container orchestration.
• Utilise LLM orchestration platforms like Flowise, Langflow and Langgraph to streamline model deployment.

Required profile

• Proven expertise in ML pipeline design, LLM serving and GPU‑based training.
• Strong background in model fine‑tuning, optimisation and resource‑efficient AI development.
• Hands‑on experience with DevOps/LLMOps practices and containerised environments.
• Director‑level experience in data, analytics or AI consulting.

Required skills

• MLflow
• SageMaker
• Vertex AI
• Azure AI
• DeepSpeed
• vLLM
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Flowise
• Langflow
• Langgraph
• Hugging Face OSS LLMs
• GPT
• Gemini
• GPU architectures

What we offer

• Inclusive, purpose‑driven culture with a focus on trust and collaboration.
• Flexible wellbeing programmes, mentorship and career development opportunities.
• Competitive benefits and a supportive environment for work‑life balance.