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GEN AI Architect

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Posted on: 16-02-2026

Job description

Job Description:

Act as the team champion for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, integrating these tools into daily workflows to increase in developer productivity.

Design and maintain Context Environments (indexing, .github/copilot-instructions.md, etc.) to ensure AI assistants produce code that strictly adheres to our architectural standards.

Master complex prompt techniques—such as Chain-of-Thought for logic extraction and Few-Shot for architectural mapping—to guide LLMs through non-trivial coding tasks

Develop and deploy AI agents (using frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex) to automate the conversion of legacy code (e.g., Monolithic Java, COBOL) into modern microservices.

Build and maintain autonomous migration agents that can reason through codebase dependencies, generate pull requests, and self-heal based on compiler feedback.

Implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems to talk to legacy documentation and extract business logic for re-implementation.

Establish automated testing and linting pipelines to validate all AI-generated code, ensuring security and performance benchmarks are met before human review.

Create reusable prompt templates and chunking strategies to ensure consistency across different application migration workstreams.

Embed Generative AI workflows directly into the CI/CD pipeline to automate documentation updates and unit test generation.5+ years of experience in AI/ML development with focus on coding assistance tools & agentic systems

Hands-on development experience using Github Copilot, Claude Code for rapid AI prototyping and implementation

Experience with LangGraph and agentic workflow development

Knowledge of LLM evaluation methodologies, testing frameworks, and quality assurance

Understanding of reasoning models, embedding models, and prompt optimization Experience with document processing and unit test generation Experience in any of the cloud platform (AWS / Azure / GCP)

Qualification

Job Description:

Act as the team champion for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, integrating these tools into daily workflows to increase in developer productivity.

Design and maintain Context Environments (indexing, .github/copilot-instructions.md, etc.) to ensure AI assistants produce code that strictly adheres to our architectural standards.

Master complex prompt techniques—such as Chain-of-Thought for logic extraction and Few-Shot for architectural mapping—to guide LLMs through non-trivial coding tasks

Develop and deploy AI agents (using frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex) to automate the conversion of legacy code (e.g., Monolithic Java, COBOL) into modern microservices.

Build and maintain autonomous migration agents that can reason through codebase dependencies, generate pull requests, and self-heal based on compiler feedback.

Implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems to talk to legacy documentation and extract business logic for re-implementation.

Establish automated testing and linting pipelines to validate all AI-generated code, ensuring security and performance benchmarks are met before human review.

Create reusable prompt templates and chunking strategies to ensure consistency across different application migration workstreams.

Embed Generative AI workflows directly into the CI/CD pipeline to automate documentation updates and unit test generation.5+ years of experience in AI/ML development with focus on coding assistance tools & agentic systems

Hands-on development experience using Github Copilot, Claude Code for rapid AI prototyping and implementation

Experience with LangGraph and agentic workflow development

Knowledge of LLM evaluation methodologies, testing frameworks, and quality assurance

Understanding of reasoning models, embedding models, and prompt optimization Experience with document processing and unit test generation Experience in any of the cloud platform (AWS / Azure / GCP)

 Key job details

Primary Location
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Type
Experienced
Primary Skills
Generative AI, AIML Libraries, LLMs
Years of Experience
15
Travel
No
Job Posting
16/02/2026

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