GDB/X - Agentic AI Architect (m/f/d)
Agentic AI Architect
OrgCode: GDB/X
Product Team: Intelligent Automation
Responsibilities: - Architect the Agent Backbone: Define and maintain the enterprise reference architecture
for autonomous agents, ensuring seamless interoperability between managed services
(Azure AI Foundry) and custom open-source runtimes on AKS. - Define Agentic Standards:
Own the technical standards for the ecosystem, including the Model Context Protocol
(MCP) for tool interoperability and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocol. -
Design the Orchestration Layer: Lead the architectural design of our central semantic
router hosted on AKS, that interprets user intent and orchestrates workflows across
distributed, cross-platform agents. - Enable Hybrid Innovation: Create "Golden Path"
blueprints that leverage Databricks (Unity Catalog) for massive-scale data context while
utilizing AKS to host complex, stateful agent swarms using frameworks like LangGraph or
AutoGen. - Drive Co-Creation & Governance: Partner with other platform teams (SAP,
Salesforce) to co-architect complex cross-domain workflows (Tier 3-4) and serve as the
primary technical authority for validating high-risk agent deployments. - Ensure Zero-Trust
Security: Embed security-by-design principles into our agent frameworks, ensuring every
agent action is authenticated, authorized, and auditable within our Guardrail Engine.
Qualifications: - Agentic Mastery: You possess deep conceptual and practical knowledge of agent design
patterns (ReAct, Plan-and-Solve, Swarms, Hierarchical Teams) and know when to use
each. - Hybrid Infrastructure Expert: You are fluent in Azure AI Foundry for governance and
model management, but you are equally comfortable architecting custom solutions on AKS
to run open-source frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph) when managed services fall short. - Data-Driven Architecture: Strong experience with Databricks, understanding how to
expose complex data pipelines as "Tools" for agents and how to manage agent
memory/state at scale. - API & Protocol Design: Proven ability to design robust, event
driven architectures (CloudEvents, Kafka) and standard APIs (FastAPI, GraphQL, MCP) for
distributed systems. - Strategic Leadership: You can communicate complex architectural
decisions to stakeholders and mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical
excellence. - Tech Stack You Will Master: -- Orchestration: LangGraph, AutoGen, Semantic
Kernel, Azure AI Foundry. -- Compute & Runtime: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS),
Docker, Azure Functions. -- Data & Memory: Databricks (Unity Catalog), Vector Databases
(Qdrant/Pinecone), Redis. -- Languages: Python (Expert), TypeScript (Proficient). --
Standards: Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenTelemetry.
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