AI Automation - Technical Lead

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Technical Lead - AI Automation located in Chennai location.

Should be open to support in night shift whenever required.

Reports to the Senior Manager, and the role involves,

What a typical day looks like:

AI Vision & Project Leadership

• Define Enterprise Vision: Establish the strategic roadmap to transition operations from legacy spreadsheet methods to a vision-driven, AI-first ecosystem.

• Drive End-to-End Delivery: Architect, build, and execute complete, production-grade AI project pipelines from initial data extraction to cloud deployment.

• Provide Technical Stewardship: Serve as the hands-on technical authority, writing clean, scalable Python code and reviewing architecture to ensure engineering excellence.

Legacy Migration & Scale

• Deconstruct Legacy Systems: Reverse-engineer, map, and dismantle over 700 legacy, Excel-based automation tools and VBA macros.

• Orchestrate Mass Migration: Re-platform legacy systems into centralized, scalable, cloud-native AI workflows without disrupting day-to-day operations.

• Establish BPA Standards: Implement standardized Business Process Automation (BPA) methods, error-handling frameworks, and transaction logging across all new solutions.

Engineering Data Engineering & Automation

• Automate Technical Datasets: Design automated pipelines to ingest, parse, and process complex technical engineering data from disparate formats.

• Execute Data Scrubbing: Architect algorithmic data cleansing, validation, and deduplication workflows using advanced Python data libraries.

• Perform Complex Manipulation: Build high-performance ETL pipelines using Pandas and NumPy to transform raw technical files into structured datasets ready for AI ingestion.

Intelligent Automation & MS Office Integration

• Deploy Intelligent Mail Workflows: Implement Large Language Models (LLMs) to scan, comprehend, categorize, and execute autonomous decisions on high volumes of incoming Outlook emails.

• Deeply Integrate Office Tools: Build seamless, programmatic bridges between cloud AI services and desktop Microsoft Office products like Excel and Outlook.

• Leverage Cloud AI Ecosystems: Utilize cloud Co-pilot platforms and OpenAI API services (including function calling and embeddings) to execute multi-agent enterprise automation.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, or related field

• Specialist: 8–12 years Hybrid AI Engineer and Automation Architect who bridges the gap between legacy corporate workflows and cutting-edge GenAI capabilities.

• Highly technical AI Specialist to drive our engineering data automation strategy. how will lead the transition of our legacy infrastructure by replacing over 700 Excel-based automation tools with advanced, Python-driven AI solutions.

• This hands-on role requires an expert who can leverage Cloud Co-pilots, OpenAI API services, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract and scrub complex datasets, automate MS Office process / workflows, and implement intelligent, AI-driven decision-making systems.

AI & LLM Architecture (Expert)

• API Frameworks: OpenAI API (GPT models, Function Calling, Assistants API).

• AI Concepts: Prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), agentic workflows, embeddings, and fine-tuning.

• Orchestration: Multi-agent systems (e.g., mail comprehension/decision-making).

Python & Data Engineering (Expert)

• Core Language: Production-grade, scalable, clean Python code.

• Data Manipulation: Advanced Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy for complex engineering data.

• Data Cleansing: Expert-level knowledge in data parsing, regex, validation, extraction, and automated data scrubbing/deduplication.

Microsoft Ecosystem & Integration (Advanced)

• Excel Automation: Programmatic manipulation via OpenPyXL, XlsxWriter, or Pandas.

• Outlook/Office Integration: Win32com, Microsoft Graph API, or O365 libraries for reading/routing emails.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud Co-pilots, Azure AI Studio, AWS Bedrock, or Open AI.

Process Automation (Advanced)

• BPA Methods: Event-driven architecture, state machines, error handling, and transaction logging.

• Legacy Decoupling: Ability to reverse-engineer Excel VBA/Macros into modern Python/Cloud microservices.

Here are a few examples of what you will get for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance

• PTO

NK99

Job Category

Production Engineering

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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