Job Description Summary
Internal Job Title: Associate Director DDIT AI & GenAI Engineering
LI-Hybrid
Location: Hyderabad, India
Relocation Support: Yes

Are you passionate about shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence at global scale? Join Novartis and play a pivotal role in transforming how cutting-edge medicines are discovered, developed, and delivered. As Associate Director AI & GenAI Engineering, you will lead the design, engineering, and delivery of cutting-edge Generative Artificial Intelligence and agentic AI solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes and improve patient lives. Working at the intersection of advanced technology, enterprise platforms, and scientific innovation, you will help turn bold ideas into production-ready solutions while influencing the future of AI across Novartis.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI and GenAI solutions from concept through production.
• Define scalable AI architectures, platform capabilities, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps.




• Partner with business stakeholders to transform workflows into intelligent, AI-enabled experiences.
• Drive rapid prototyping and minimum viable product development for high-value business opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership across generative artificial intelligence, agentic AI, machine learning, and semantic search.
• Design and optimize AI platforms, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
• Establish engineering best practices for automation, observability, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, regulatory, reliability, performance, and responsible AI standards.
• Manage delivery plans, dependencies, risks, budgets, and stakeholder communications across initiatives.
• Mentor engineering teams and foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning.

Essential Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in C

📌 Associate Director AI (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad