Technical practice
How would you turn business requirements into an enterprise GenAI architecture?
What to coverThe role includes gathering requirements with business and technical teams and defining solution architecture. Suggested preparation: explain how you would clarify use cases, data constraints and success criteria before choosing components and documenting trade-offs.
How would you deploy a GenAI application using Azure services?
What to coverThe posting names Azure AI Services, Azure Functions and Azure Web Apps. Suggested preparation: explain where each could fit, how application components would interact, and what would influence your deployment choice.
How would you choose among the AWS services named for this role?
What to coverThe posting names Lambda, ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB and Bedrock as relevant AWS experience. Suggested preparation: compare their possible roles in an AI application and discuss workload, operational and scaling trade-offs without assuming all are needed.
How would you integrate an LLM API into a Python or Java application?
What to coverLLM API integration and proficiency in Python and/or Java are stated requirements. Suggested preparation: cover request and response handling, failure paths, testing, and how you would keep the integration maintainable.
How would you design an AI agent for an enterprise application?
What to coverBuilding AI agents is an explicit part of the role. Suggested preparation: describe how you would define the agent’s scope, control its actions, handle failures and evaluate whether an agent is preferable to a simpler workflow.
What would you assess before integrating a multimodal model?
What to coverThe posting calls for experience working with multimodal AI models and integrating them into enterprise applications. Suggested preparation: discuss input and output handling, quality checks, latency and the implications of using more than one modality.
How would you evaluate and optimize a GenAI workflow?
What to coverThe role calls for model evaluation and optimization across performance, accuracy and scalability. Suggested preparation: define measurements tied to the use case, explain how you would compare changes, and address trade-offs when one measure improves at another’s expense.
How would you keep a GenAI application secure, efficient and scalable?
What to coverBuilding and maintaining applications with all three properties is a stated responsibility. Suggested preparation: explain how you would identify risks and bottlenecks, select controls and capacity approaches, and verify their effects.
How would you isolate an AI application issue from a cloud deployment issue?
What to coverThe role includes troubleshooting both AI applications and cloud deployments. Suggested preparation: walk through a diagnostic sequence using symptoms, logs and targeted checks, then explain how you would validate the fix.
What would you consider for containerized deployment and CI/CD?
What to coverDocker, Kubernetes, containerized deployment and CI/CD or DevOps practices appear as preferred skills, not core requirements. Suggested preparation: compare when containerization would be useful and describe how testing and deployment checks could reduce release risk.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you reconciled different business and technical requirements.
What to coverThe role involves working with both groups to define solution architecture. Suggested preparation: use a real situation, your actions to clarify priorities and trade-offs, and the resulting decision or outcome.
Describe a collaboration with data scientists or machine learning engineers.
What to coverThe posting calls for close collaboration with these colleagues to enhance AI capabilities. Suggested preparation: give a real example with the shared problem, your specific contribution and the result.
Tell me about a time a code review or mentoring changed an engineering outcome.
What to coverTechnical guidance, code reviews and mentoring are stated responsibilities. Suggested preparation: describe the situation, how you gave actionable guidance, and what changed as a result.
Describe how you handled a difficult production or deployment problem.
What to coverTroubleshooting AI applications and cloud deployments is part of the role. Suggested preparation: use a real example covering the symptoms, your diagnostic and communication actions, and the resolution or lesson learned.
Tell me about a time priorities shifted during a collaborative project.
What to coverThe posting calls for effectiveness in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Suggested preparation: explain the situation, how you reprioritized and kept others aligned, and the outcome.