Senior Principal Architect Agentic AI & Digital Platforms

Our client is looking for a Senior Principal Architect Agentic AI & Digital Platforms to serve as the onshore technical anchor for an Agentic AI initiative across customer-facing digital platforms. The ideal candidate will translate business intent into scalable, governed, production-ready systems and hold the architectural line across delivery teams.

The right person codes, reviews, and debates trade-offs in the same week they brief a VP.

Key Responsibilities

Agentic Architecture

• Design & govern end-to-end agentic architecture for apps, loyalty, payments, and commerce workflows. Multi-Agent Orchestration
• Orchestrator/subagent hierarchies, tool calling, stateful graph workflows, agent memory layers. MCP Standards
• Establish Model Context Protocol standards for governed tool and enterprise service exposure. Runtime Guardrails
• Spend controls, fraud hooks, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and full auditability trails. Retail Systems Integration
• Lead AI agent integration with catalog, inventory, pricing, promotions, loyalty, and checkout. LLMOps Standards
• Prompt versioning, RAG governance, evaluation harnesses, observability (latency, cost, drift, safety).

Requirements

12–18 yrs enterprise/platform architecture 3–4+ yrs AI/ML or GenAI in production Shipped LLM-based agent systems (not POC) Hands-on: Lang. Graph / Lang. Chain / Semantic Kernel / CrewAI / Auto. Gen Re. Act, multi-agent hand offs, RAG, MCP knowledge Architected against hallucination, tool misuse, cost runaway Python proficiency + reference implementations Translates tech → business value for VPs Preferred: Direct retail / commerce domain exposure LLMOps depth (Lang.

Smith / Langfuse) Onshore/offshore delivery leadership Knowledge graphs as grounding layers