Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com. AI Architect - Contract Job Title: AI Architect - Contract Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite) Bill Rate $85-95 per hour AI/ML Architecture Design: Design and architect the time series ML lifecycle, including ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and serving. Define architecture for univariate, multivariate, and predictive models (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM, XGBoost, etc.). Evaluate and integrate anomaly segmentation techniques. Able to create complete end to end RAG pipeline. MLOps & Lifecycle Management: Establish best practices for CI/CD pipelines, MLflow-based model tracking, versioning, and rollback. Align model deployment across batch (Databricks jobs) and real-time (AKS / Azure ML Endpoints) inference. Collaborate with platform teams to operationalize retraining, drift detection, and alerting. Data Architecture & Feature Stores: Design feature pipelines using Delta Lake and offline/online feature stores (e.g., Feast, Delta + Redis). Work with data engineering to align with Bronze Silver Gold zone processing across Azure Data Lake. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with product owners, energy engineers, and visualization teams to translate insights into actionable dashboards and external APIs. Lead data scientists and ML engineers to design, prototype, and productionize energy optimization models Teck Stack: Azure Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Kubernetes Service, Delta Tables , Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Blob Storage, Time series, Predictive Modelling, RAG/LLM based Gen AI. Mandatory Skills: AI for Product Software Engineering. Experience: >10 YEARS. Expected annual pay for this role ranges from $1,00,000 to $2,00,000 . Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro’s standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options. Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions. Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.