Meet the Team:

The AutoQuote team at Cisco builds and operates the automated quoting platform that powers Cisco's global renewals business. Our mission is to generate accurate, ready-to-order quotes at scale — minimizing manual effort for partners and distributors, reducing booking friction, and driving simplification across Cisco's renewal workflows.
We are a product engineering team running a homegrown, cloud-native application hosted on GCP. Our stack is built on a microservices architecture orchestrated with Kubernetes, with Prefect managing our data and workflow pipelines, and Pub/Sub and REST APIs handling communication across services. We move rapid, operate at scale, and are actively integrating AI capabilities into the core of what we build.

Your Impact:
We are seeking an experienced technical leader to serve as Leader, Data Science on the AutoQuote team at Cisco. This is a principal-level engineering and technical leadership role responsible for driving the architecture, AI strategy, and engineering direction of AutoQuote's cloud-native software platform.



The ideal candidate brings deep software engineering expertise, a track record of leading complex technical initiatives, and the technical authority to elevate the team around them.
AI fluency is a non-negotiable expectation of this role — not just personal proficiency, but the ability to actively drive AI adoption across the team, govern its use responsibly, and continuously push the boundaries of what AI-assisted engineering can deliver. This leader will set the technical tone for how the AutoQuote engineering organization builds.

What You'll do:
• Own the technical architecture and engineering strategy for AutoQuote's cloud-native platform — spanning AI feature integration, data pipeline infrastructure, microservices design, and platform reliability.
• Lead the design and delivery of the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives on the team, setting the architectural patterns and eng

📌 Leader, Data Science (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco Systems
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