Team Lead (Agentic AI Platform)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Team Lead – Agentic AI Platform with 10+ years of overall experience to lead and actively contribute to the development of agent-based AI systems. You will lead engineering teams building scalable, reliable agentic platforms that combine LLMs, tools, workflows, integrations, and orchestration layers. The role involves strong collaboration with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to drive platform evolution and business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Lead and manage engineering teams building agentic AI platforms and systems

·         Remain hands-on with coding, architecture, and technical problem-solving

·         Design and guide agent architectures including planning, tool usage, memory, and orchestration

·         Drive integration with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar platforms

·         Own system design decisions for scalable, reliable, and secure AI-driven systems

·         Orchestrate workflows that combine tools, services, and integrations into cohesive platforms

·         Ensure best practices around reliability, observability, performance, and cost control

·         Collaborate closely with Product teams to shape roadmaps and delivery priorities

·         Mentor engineers and support their technical and career growth

·         Support hiring, onboarding, and team scaling initiatives

·         Lead cross-functional collaboration across backend, full-stack, DevOps, data, and AI teams

Required Skills & Experience: 

Engineering Leadership

• 3+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams 
• Proven ability to balance leadership with hands-on technical ownership.

Full-Stack Engineering Background

• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience
• Strong background as a Full-Stack Engineer (backend & frontend)
• Continues to contribute code and technical designs regularly

Agentic AI Systems

• 1–3 years of experience building and leading agent-based AI platforms
• Strong understanding of agentic concepts: planning, tool execution, memory, feedback loops, and orchestration

LLM Integration

• 1–3 years of hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)

System & Architecture Design

• 5+ years of experience designing scalable, reliable, production-grade systems
• Ability to reason about system behavior, failure modes, and edge cases

Workflow Orchestration

• 2+ years of experience combining tools, workflows, and integrations into end-to-end solutions

Security Awareness

• Intermediate understanding of secure design principles for AI-driven systems

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• 3+ years of experience working closely with Product teams on roadmaps and prioritization
• Strong cross-functional leadership across backend, full-stack, DevOps, and AI teams

Mentorship & Team Building

• 3+ years of experience mentoring engineers and supporting career development
• Experience with hiring, onboarding, and team growth initiatives

Core Competencies

• Agent architecture and design patterns
• System integration and workflow orchestration
• Technical leadership with hands-on ownership
• Product-oriented and value-driven decision-making
• Risk management, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Coaching, mentorship, and team enablement

Nice to Have

• Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, or n8n
• Familiarity with vector databases, retrieval systems, and long-term memory strategies
• Exposure to MLOps, prompt lifecycle management, or model evaluation
• Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling
• Background in AI-first or R&D-heavy product environments

About Aumni Techworks:

Aumni Techworks, established in 2016, is a Software Services Company that partners with Product companies to build and manage their dedicated teams in India. So, while you are working for a services company, you are working within a product team and growing with them. We do not take projects, and we have long term (open ended) contracts with our clients. When our clients sign up with us, they are looking at a multi-year relationship. For e.g. Some of the clients we signed up 8 or 6 years, are still with us. We do not move people across client teams and there is no concept of bench. At Aumni, we believe in quality work, and we truly believe that Indian talent is at par with someone in NY, London or Germany. 300+ and growing.

Benefits of working at Aumni Techworks:   

• Our award-winning culture reminds us of our engineering days. 

• Medical insurance (including Parents), Life and Disability insurance 

• 24 leaves + 10 public holidays + leaves for Hospitalization, maternity, paternity and bereavement. 

• On site Gym, TT, Carrom, Foosball and Pool table 

• Hybrid work culture 

• Fitness group / rewards 

• Friday Socials, Annual parties, treks.