Director, AI-Driven Applications :

- Ahmedabad, India; Hyderabad, India
- Information Technology
- 327342

About the Role : Grade Level (for internal use) : 13 S&P; Global Energy

The Role :

- Director, AI-Driven Applications

The Team : We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled engineering leader for S&P; Global Energy. We strive to deliver solutions that are sector-specific, data-rich, and hyper-targeted for evolving business needs.

The Impact :

- S&P; Global Energy is seeking a Director of AI-Driven Applications who is a senior strategic and hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining and executing the organization's vision for intelligent, AI-native enterprise systems. This role requires deep expertise in agentic AI design, large-scale data modelling, and enterprise solution architecture translating complex business challenges into scalable, production-grade AI solutions.

What’s in it for you :

- It’s a fast-paced agile setting that deals with huge volumes of data, so you’ll have an opportunity to sharpen your data skills and work on an emerging technology stack.

Responsibilities

AI Strategy & Application Development

- Architect end-to-end agentic AI workflows: autonomous planning, tool use, memory management, and multi-agent orchestration
- Evaluate and select AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, custom) appropriate to enterprise scale and security requirements
- Champion responsible AI principles - explainability, bias mitigation, auditability, and data privacy
- Data Modelling & Architecture

Design and govern enterprise data models supporting AI feature engineering, vector embedding stores, knowledge graphs, and real-time inference pipelines

- Define ontologies, taxonomies,



and semantic layers that enable AI systems to reason over structured and unstructured enterprise data
- Oversee the architecture of data platforms including data lakes, lakehouses, streaming pipelines, and feature stores
- Establish data quality, lineage, and observability standards to ensure model reliability in production
- Enterprise Architecture Leadership

Own and evolve the enterprise architecture for AI integration across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments

- Drive architecture decisions across the full AI stack: model serving, API gateways, orchestration layers, observability, and security
- Align AI architecture with enterprise platforms and integration patterns (event-driven, microservices, API-first)
- Establish architecture review boards, design patterns, and reusable accelerators to scale AI delivery across business units
- People Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of AI and Software engineers, data architects, and solution architects

- Partner with C-suite, business unit heads, and product leaders to identify and prioritize AI opportunities
- Represent the AI architecture function to executive stakeholders, board-level audiences, and external partners
- Drive a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence
- Success Metrics (First 12 Months)
- Establish reusable AI architecture patterns and accelerators reducing delivery time by 30%+




- Build and grow a team of AI engineers and architects
- Define, publish, evangelize enterprise AI governance and data modelling standards

Basic Required Qualifications

12+ years of progressive experience in software/data/AI architecture with 5+ years in a leadership role

- Deep expertise in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated AI/ML services
- Strong background in data modelling and data platform design (relational, NoSQL, graph, vector)
- Demonstrated experience architecting agentic AI solutions using LLMs and orchestration frameworks
- Excellence in stakeholder communication, able to translate technical concepts for executive audiences

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government) with AI governance requirements

- Published research, patents, or open-source contributions in AI/ML
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, or equivalent
- Experience with TOGAF, Zachman, or other enterprise architecture frameworks

What’s In It For You? **

Our Mission : Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People : Our Values : Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

- Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits :**

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything

📌 Director, Ai-driven Applications (Ahmedabad)
🏢 sep global
📍 Ahmedabad