Summary:
As Associate Director, BR Data & Digital Software & Workflows AI Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of internal and external AI engineers to deliver initiative aligned production grade AI solutions (agents, models), ensuring reliable, scalable, secure, and high quality outcomes. The role ensures a solid execution discipline, modern MLOps and AgentOps practices, and alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and AI governance, while building a high performing team that rapidly delivers measurable business value.

About the Role:
Purpose of the Role:
As Associate Director, BR Data & Digital Software & Workflows AI Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of internal and external AI engineers to deliver initiative‑aligned production‑grade AI solutions (agents, models), ensuring reliable, scalable, secure, and high‑quality outcomes. The role ensures a strong execution discipline, modern MLOps and AgentOps practices, and alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and AI governance,



while building a high‑performing team that rapidly delivers measurable business value.

Major Responsibilities:
- Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing team of internal and external AI engineers by setting clear priorities, cultivating skills, and ensuring consistent excellence in building, scaling, releasing, and sustaining AI solutions, including long‑term quality and operational ownership.
- Partner closely across BR Data & Digital as well as corporate functions to collaborate and align AI engineering execution with organizational objectives and initiative timelines.
- Manage effective, predictable, and high-quality engineering delivery of AI solutions and components across time‑bound initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise platforms, architectural standards, compliance, and AI governance requirements.
- Oversee deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI solutions, including performance optimization, cost optim

📌 Associate Director, Ai Engineering Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad