Principal Engineer Architect [T500-22403]

About Albertsons Companies Inc.:As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers’ problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.About Albertsons Companies India:At Albertsons Companies India, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers’ lives every day.At the Albertsons Companies India, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons Companies India associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.Principal Enterprise AI ArchitectPosition Details:About the Company:Albertsons is transforming the future of retail by embracing cutting-edge digital, data, and AI technologies. Our mission is to reinvent how customers shop and how our teams operate by embedding intelligence and automation across the enterprise. As part of this journey, we are expanding our AI and GenAI platform capabilities to enable next-generation experiences, decision-making, and operational excellence.Role Summary:The Principal Enterprise AI Architect serves as a senior technology leader responsible for defining the enterprise architecture strategy, reference models, and platform capabilities for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI systems across Albertsons. As an individual contributor, this role partners with engineering, product, AI and data science teams to design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient architectures that accelerate AI adoption, maturity and innovation.Key Responsibilities:- Define and evolve the enterprise AI platform architecture – technologies, standards, and best practices - aligned to organizational business strategy. - Architect scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native AI/ML and GenAI platforms supporting training, fine-tuning, inference, vector search, and RAG pipelines. - Develop and maintain reference architectures, blueprints, technology roadmaps, and reusable platform assets. - Establish standards for observability, metadata management, model registries, etc. across the AI lifecycle. - Partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to implement responsible AI frameworks, guardrails, and governance. - Partner with cross-functional teams and provide architectural guidance to engineering, product managers, and data scientists. - Drive the enterprise architecture review process for AI/ML and GenAI initiatives, ensuring adherence to standards. - Provide expert leadership in model deployment strategies, GPU/accelerator optimization, multi-cloud scaling, and cost efficiency. - Collaborate with AI Platform Engineering teams by providing architectural direction and guidance, defining standards and patterns, and ensuring governance and oversight. - Support innovation efforts, including prototypes, pilots, and next-gen architectures (e.g., agent-based AI, enterprise semantic layers). - Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior executives and stakeholders.Required Qualifications:- 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or distributed systems engineering. - 5+ years of experience architecting AI/ML or GenAI platforms at enterprise scale. - Deep expertise with cloud platforms (Azure and/or GCP, AWS optional), AI/ML frameworks, Kubernetes, microservices, and GPU/accelerated computing. - Deep understanding of LLMs, vector databases, RAG architecture, LangChain/Lang Graph, and orchestration frameworks. - Strong background in MLOps, model lifecycle management, CI/CD for ML, model observability, and data pipelines. - Proficiency with Python and modern AI/ML toolchains (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, Ray, Kubeflow, MLflow). - Strong grounding in AI security, governance, risk management, privacy, and compliance principles. - Strong communication, leadership, collaboration and executive influencing skills.Preferred Qualifications:- Experience driving enterprise-scale AI platform transformations. - Hands-on experience fine-tuning and deploying LLMs, including open-source and proprietary models. - Experience in retail, supply chain, e-commerce, or other large-scale data-driven industries. - Prior role as Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent senior technical position. - Contributions to open-source AI or ML frameworks.What Success Looks Like:- Enterprise-wide adoption of secure, scalable AI/ML and GenAI platforms. - Consistent application of architectural standards, reference patterns, and guardrails. - Accelerated time-to-market for AI initiatives through reusable platform capabilities. - Increased operational efficiency through improved deployment, monitoring, and governance. - Strong collaboration across engineering, product, security, and data science organizations.Why Join Us:- Influence and shape the future of AI and GenAI across a Fortune 100 company. - Work on high-impact initiatives that touch millions of customers and thousands of employees. - Collaborate with a world-class team of technologists, architects, data scientists, and product leaders. - Competitive compensation, strong benefits, and career advancement opportunities.

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