Nagarro—Associate Distinguished Engineer (AI Architect, Palantir)

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Description: 👋🏼We're Nagarro. We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at a scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18500+ experts across 39 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in! Requirements - Experience : 13+ years - Relevant years of experience in software engineering, solution design, and enterprise application architecture. - Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Java applications. - Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot. - Strong experience with microservices architecture and modern distributed application design. - Strong understanding of microservices design patterns, service discovery, API gateways, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures. - Proven experience designing RESTful APIs, enterprise integrations, and service contracts. - Strong understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and architectural best practices. - Experience working with both monolithic and microservices-based architectures. - Proven experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating monolithic systems to microservices architectures. - Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Ontology, and Workshop. - Experience architecting and delivering AI-powered enterprise applications using Palantir and related AI platforms. - Good understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI workflow architectures. - Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into enterprise business applications. - Experience conducting POCs, technical feasibility studies, architecture spikes, and evaluations of emerging technologies. - Strong experience with PostgreSQL databases. - Experience designing data models and database schemas. - Hands-on experience with schema migrations, query optimization, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and database performance tuning. - Experience defining data integration and data governance approaches across applications. - Good understanding of AWS and/or Azure cloud architectures. - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes-based deployments. - Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tools such as Terraform. - Experience supporting CI/CD implementations using Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar tools. - Understanding of application monitoring, observability, logging, and operational support requirements. - Experience with enterprise messaging and event-driven architectures. - Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or similar messaging technologies. - Understanding of asynchronous communication patterns and distributed transaction management. - Strong cloud architecture and solution design capabilities. - Strong consulting, stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills. - Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions. - Strong architectural leadership, technical decision-making, and problem-solving skills. - Ability to rapidly evaluate new tools, frameworks, AI platforms, and technologies and recommend appropriate solutions. - Strong innovation mindset with experience driving ideation, experimentation, and technology adoption initiatives. - High level of ownership, accountability, and technical leadership. Responsibilities - Define and maintain solution architecture, technical standards, design principles, and technology roadmaps for enterprise applications. - Lead architecture and design discussions across product, engineering, infrastructure, and business teams. - Architect and develop cloud-native enterprise solutions using Java, Spring Boot, containerization, and modern deployment patterns. - Design scalable APIs, service contracts, integration patterns, and event-driven architectures. - Provide technical leadership and solution guidance to development teams, ensuring implementations align with architectural standards, best practices, and business objectives. - Lead the design and delivery of major feature enhancements and complex technical initiatives from solution definition through implementation and deployment. - Act as the technical escalation point for complex architectural and development challenges. - Conduct design reviews and mentor engineers on architecture, software design, and development best practices. - Architect and support AI-powered business applications using Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Ontology, Workshop, and other emerging AI frameworks. - Design and integrate AI/LLM capabilities into enterprise applications, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, and AI workflow architectures. - Lead Proofs of Concept (POCs), innovation initiatives, technical evaluations, and architecture spikes for emerging technologies. - Evaluate new AI platforms, frameworks, tools, and technologies and recommend suitable solutions based on business and technical requirements. - Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to define deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, observability, and operational requirements. - Design and support cloud-native architectures across AWS and/or Azure environments. - Define scalable and resilient microservices architectures, including service discovery, API gateways, distributed systems, and asynchronous communication patterns. - Design database architectures and data models using PostgreSQL, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability. - Support database schema design, migrations, query optimization, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and performance tuning. - Define data integration and governance approaches across enterprise applications. - Design and implement messaging and event-driven solutions using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or similar platforms. - Ensure architecture compliance with enterprise security, governance, regulatory, and operational requirements. - Support modernization of legacy applications and migration from monolithic to microservices-based architectures. - Drive technical innovation and experimentation initiatives while maintaining alignment with enterprise architecture standards. - Provide architectural leadership, technical direction, and decision-making across complex enterprise technology initiatives. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.