Job Description Summary
The Head of AWS Engineering is accountable for defining, building, and evolving Novartis' AWS-based cloud platforms and engineering capabilities, ensuring they deliver secure, scalable, compliant, and cost-effective services that accelerate business innovation. The role leads the engineering strategy, architecture realization, platform roadmap, and delivery of next-generation cloud capabilities while establishing engineering standards, automation, and operational excellence across the AWS ecosystem. Working closely with Architecture, Security, Operations, and Business stakeholders, the role ensures cloud platforms are engineered for resilience, regulatory compliance, financial accountability, and rapid adoption at enterprise scale.

Job Description
Key Accountabilities

• Define and execute the AWS platform engineering strategy and roadmap, translating enterprise technology priorities and business requirements into a explicit, multi-year plan for AWS platform capabilities, modernization, automation, resilience, security, compliance,



and financial efficiency.Lead the end-to-end engineering and lifecycle management of AWS cloud platforms, ensuring services are securely designed, consistently engineered, scalable, highly available, resilient, observable, supportable, and fit for use across business-critical and regulated workloads.

• Establish the operating model and engineering standards for the AWS ecosystem, including reusable platform patterns, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, observability, automated testing, policy-as-code, and lifecycle management.

• Own the AWS platform product roadmap and delivery portfolio, prioritizing platform investments, managing dependencies, balancing strategic and operational demand, and ensuring that committed capabilities are delivered on time, within agreed funding, and with measurable business outcomes.

• Drive the modernization and simplification of the AWS environment

📌 Director DDIT IES CHS AWS Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad