Job Description

Senior Manager, AI

Pune

About the role

The Senior Engineering Manager within the NIQ Analytics organization will report to the Director, Analytics Engineering and be responsible for leading a high-performing team of software engineers while driving the development of cutting-edge AI-enabled product solutions for our rapidly expanding customer base. This role operates in an open, collaborative, and innovation-driven environment, leveraging modern client and server-side technologies, Generative AI, and Agentic AI to deliver scalable and impactful solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a balanced allocation of responsibilities, with approximately 50% focused on engineering leadership activities such as technical reviews, planning, stakeholder management, talent development, and delivery oversight, and 50% dedicated to hands-on software engineering, including architecture, coding, design reviews, technical problem solving, and the productionization of AI-enabled capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the architecture, design,



and productionization of scalable microservices and AI-enabled product capabilities from concept through production deployment
Lead AI platform system design and implementation, ensuring robust, secure, maintainable, and well-governed solutions across Java/Spring Boot and Python/FastAPI services where appropriate
Drive the architecture and delivery of Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions, including MCP-based architectures, agent orchestration, tool integration, intent classification, agent state management, and multi-agent workflows
Establish engineering patterns for integrating LLM APIs, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and equivalent providers, with attention to security, reliability, cost, rate limits, and token efficiency
Guide teams in productionizing GenAI use cases such as AI chatbots, summarization, classification, intelligent search, Q&A;, and embedding-based retrieval
Lead the design of sy

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