Azure AI - Lead Developer

About the job
Add the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs.
Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman and we work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC and other analyst for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region.
Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award winning team? Don’t listen to us, listen to our customers. Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Role: Senior Lead Software Engineer
Skill: Azure, Open AI (GenAI, Speech, Language), Nodejs, Typescript
Description
Minimum 5 Years of good IT experience with at least 1 plus year of Azure and Open AI use case development experience
At least 1+ year hands on in TypeScript and Nodejs development.
Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring on Azure based services
Technical lead for a team of engineers to drive Open AI use case development.

Technical Skills
Strong Azure and Open AI experience with Vision, Speech, Language, Generative AI services, Cognitive services
Hands on experience with Azure Deployment, Cosmos DB, Azure Insights, RAG, Agents implementation
Expert at advanced prompt engineering, Chaining technologies like Langchain, Good knowledge of LLMs, RAG architecture
Development experience in Node.JS, Mongo DB to integrate with Azure AI and Different internal services
Experience in developing Business use case POCs, Implementation, and supporting business to realize the value of the use case.
Follows the new trends and development in the AI space to bring value to business

Functional Skills
Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices.
Experience in Banking, Financial and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred.
Experience in Agile methodology.
Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.