Job Title: Director- Software Engineering Lead

GCL: F

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to set the technical direction for enterprise-scale AI applications that drive measurable value and improve patient outcomes? In this role, you will provide deep technical leadership for AI-powered products and platforms, guiding the responsible adoption of Generative AI and machine learning at scale You will define the architecture, standards, and platform capabilities that multiple product teams rely on to deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions.

Do you thrive on influencing sophisticated decisions and uniting product, data, and security collaborators to deliver AI responsibly? You will help build how we turn sophisticated information into practical insights, collaborating across the company to raise quality, accelerate delivery, and embed rigorous governance. Here, ingenuity comes with accountability—innovation is empowered, and following the accurate procedures is non-negotiable to ensure patient safety and achieve n trust.
Accountabilities:





Define and lead a multi-year technical vision for AI applications and platforms, aligning technology choices to business outcomes and total cost of ownership.

Establish and carry out architecture principles, reference designs, and patterns for full-stack AI solutions (GenAI, ML, data foundations) to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

Provide technical leadership across a portfolio of AI initiatives; review solution designs, mediate trade-offs, and ensure value delivery through stage gates and measurable objectives.

Drive shared components, APIs, model/prompt registries, feature stores, RAG services, and internal developer tooling to accelerate delivery and standardize quality.

Lead model selection frameworks, evaluation methods, prompt governance, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns for LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems.

Own technical standards for SLOs, resilience, observability, and cost e

📌 Director- Software Engineering Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Bengaluru