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Job Description

Associate Director - Forward Deployed Engineering

The Opportunity

· Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve recent milestones in global healthcare.

· Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

· Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys' IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together,



we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

- Provide hands-on technical and engineering leadership for digitally enabled authoring and localization products, including AI-assisted authoring and machine translation.

- Embed with regulatory authors, translators, localization specialists and product teams to understand high-value problems, rapidly validate ideas and mature successful concepts into maintainable, production-grade solutions.

- Bridge regulatory needs, product strategy, architecture and engineering execution while ensuring security, privacy, validation, auditability, Responsible AI and operational supportability.

Key Responsibilities

- Build a strong understanding of regulatory authoring processes, user needs, systems, data and content flows, including clinical and regulatory document development.

- Partner directly with regulatory authors, product managers, architects, data scientists, UX specialists and software engineers to identify high-impact opportunities and translate ambiguous requirements into practical technical solutions.

- Lead rapid discovery, prototyping, user validation, solution shaping, production delivery and adoption for digital and AI-enabled authoring capabilities.





- Design and deliver scalable capabilities for AI-assisted content generation, content reuse, structured content, review and quality control, source-to-output traceability and document intelligence.

- Design and deliver localization and machine-translation capabilities, including terminology management, translation memory, quality estimation, human review workflows, feedback capture and measurable translation-quality monitoring.

- Architect Generative AI solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, enterprise knowledge retrieval and knowledge graph patterns where appropriate.

- Design agentic authoring and review workflows, including orchestration, tool integration, guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls.

- Establish prompt engineering, prompt management, evaluation, versioning, reuse and lifecycle practices for dependable Generative AI delivery.

- Design secure, modular and reusable cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, event-driven integrations and data pipelines across AWS and, where required, Google Cloud Platform, connecting authoring and localization solutions with regulatory platforms, structured data sources and enterprise AI services.

- Provide hands-on implementation support, reference architectures, design reviews, code-level guidance and reusable engineering patterns.

- Prefer enterprise and out-of-the-box capabilities over unnecessary custom solutions, while clearly documenting trade-offs where custom engineering is justified.

- Embed quality by design through automated testing, AI evaluat

📌 Associate Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 Msd
📍 Hyderabad