Role: Associate Director - AI-Enabled SDLC Engineering

Location: Chennai

Experience: 15+ Years

This role will establish engineering standards, improve developer productivity, ensure code quality, optimize development workflows, and drive AI adoption across the SDLC while maintaining security, compliance, and architectural guardrails.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead enterprise adoption of AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Engineering Excellence practices.
- Drive AI-powered software engineering through GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted coding, code reviews, testing, and developer productivity tools.
- Define and govern source control, branching strategies, pull request standards, and release management practices.
- Establish code quality, security, and DevSecOps standards, including automated quality gates and secure-by-design practices.
- Own engineering performance metrics including DORA, developer productivity, code quality, and AI adoption KPIs.
- Design and govern CI/CD, automation, cloud-native delivery, and platform engineering practices.
- Conduct engineering maturity assessments and lead modernization and transformation initiatives.
- Partner with architects, delivery leaders, and executives to drive continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering capability development.

Qualifications





- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership of enterprise-scale engineering, DevSecOps, and transformation initiatives.
- Deep expertise in SDLC, Agile delivery, software architecture, source control, branching strategies, code review, CI/CD, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), and application security.
- Strong hands-on experience with AI-enabled software engineering, including GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted coding, code reviews, test automation, Agentic SDLC, and Responsible AI governance.
- Proficiency with modern engineering and DevOps toolchains, including GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, SonarQube, Snyk, and CodeQL.
- Proven track record driving engineering excellence, developer productivity, platform engineering, application modernization, and cloud transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of DORA metrics, engineering KPIs, and continuous improvement frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management, consulting, executive communication, mentoring, and transformation leadership capabilities.
- Relevant certifications in Cloud, GitHub, DevOps, Agile, or Engineering Excellence are preferred.

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