Senior Architect | Agentic Application Engineering
About Persistent:We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We have delivered 24 sequential quarters of growth with $436.5M in Q4 FY26 revenue, up 17.4% Y-o-Y growth. Our 26,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We won the 2025 ISG Star of Excellence™ Award for AI and Data Excellence and were named a Leader in the Everest Group Talent Readiness for Next-generation Data, Analytics and AI Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.Role: Senior Architect – Agentic Application EngineeringLocation: Anywhere in United StatesRole Type: Hands-on IC ArchitectExperience: 15+ yearsPrimary Stack: Python, FastAPI, Azure Data/ AIAbout the Role:We are seeking a Senior Builder-Architect (AI-Native PDLC Owner) who can own and deliver enterprise-grade features end to end — from product specification and architecture through implementation, test automation, deployment, production readiness, and continuous enhancement. The role requires hands-on delivery of agentic applications/ solutions and an Agent-Led PDLC approach where AI agents and copilots accelerate specification, design, coding, testing, documentation, release, and operations while preserving engineering governance, security, and quality.Core Theme: Hands-on AI-native Architect, who converts business specifications into secure, scalable, production-ready capabilities using Agent-Led PDLC and Azure Ecosystem Engineering.Key Responsibilities:WHAT YOU WILL OWN:End-to-end feature ownership across Spec → Architecture → Design → Code → Test → Deploy → Operate.Translate business requirements into technical specs, service contracts, data models, implementation plans, and production-ready designs.Architect and build scalable APIs, microservices, orchestration services, data-driven workflows, and reusable platform capabilities.Drive delivery discipline: architecture reviews, code reviews, test strategy, release readiness, observability, and operational support.AGENT-LED PDLC EXPECTATIONS:Apply AI agents/ copilots across requirement elaboration, design exploration, code generation, unit/ integration testing, refactoring, documentation, and deployment automation.Define human-in-the-loop engineering practices for safe, secure, and maintainable AI-assisted delivery.Establish reusable agentic patterns such as tool-using agents, workflow orchestration, RAG-enabled knowledge assistants, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and telemetry-driven improvement loops.SUCCESS MEASURESReduced spec-to-production cycle time through Agent-Led PDLC practices.Higher engineering throughput while maintaining architecture quality, security, test coverage, and production stability.Successful delivery of enterprise-grade, scalable, observable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities.Required Qualifications:REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:Expert hands-on engineering experience in Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, async services, API-first design, microservices, and event-driven architectures.Strong Azure Data/ AI experience: Azure SQL, Data Lake, Data Factory, Synapse/ Fabric, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure AI Services/Azure OpenAI, AKS, API Management, and CI/CD.Deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, caching, scalability, resiliency, security, governance, and performance engineering.AGENTIC APPLICATION EXPERIENCE:Proven experience developing enterprise-grade agentic applications/ solutions using LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings/ vector search, function/ tool calling, orchestration frameworks, and secure enterprise integrations.Experience building agent workflows that connect with enterprise data, APIs, documents, knowledge bases, operational systems, and analytics platforms.Ability to design evaluation, monitoring, access control, auditability, cost controls, and responsible AI guardrails for production-grade agentic systems.CANDIDATE PROFILE15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years as Senior/ Principal Architect or senior hands-on individual contributor.Builder-first architect who codes actively, reviews pull requests, resolves design trade-offs, and is accountable for production outcomes.Strong stakeholder collaboration skills with product, architecture, engineering, security, DevOps, and business teams.Comfortable operating in ambiguity, decomposing complex business problems, and delivering measurable outcomes at speed.Benefits:Competitive salary and benefits package.Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications.Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards.Our company fosters a values-driven and people-centric work environment that enables our employees to:Accelerate growth, both professionally and personally.Impact the world in powerful, positive ways, using the latest technologies.Enjoy collaborative innovation, with diversity and work-life wellbeing at the core.Unlock global opportunities to work and learn with the industry’s best.Let’s unleash your full potential at Persistent - persistent.com/careers