About this role

A world-leading global insurance group is moving its whole technology organisation to an AI-native engineering model across the product lifecycle, from idea through design, build, test, deploy and operate. Its best teams already perform on par with the strongest engineering teams anywhere, but only around 10–15% of teams are at that level and adoption has stalled. This hire is how they scale it.

The Staff/Principal Engineer is a hands-on technical leader embedded in real delivery teams (legacy modernisation, systems integration, data-intensive products). It is part of a global push for around 8–10 of these roles across the client's hubs, and every location is held to the same bar. At Principal level the person may own technical direction for a major business domain.

What you'll do

Engineering & solution architecture

- Lead the technical design and evolution of complex, business-critical enterprise applications
- Design robust, scalable solution architectures grounded in practical engineering
- Review application portfolios, legacy architectures and integrations, and find ways to modernise and simplify
- Translate business requirements, customer journeys and product needs into actionable technology solutions
- Guide decisions on integration patterns, APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and modern application architectures

AI-native engineering transformation

- Introduce and embed AI-native software engineering practices within delivery teams
- Apply agentic AI tooling to development, legacy system understanding, test automation and engineering workflows
- Use and evaluate context engineering, harness engineering,



reverse engineering and autonomous engineering agents
- Experiment with emerging AI development tools and judge what actually works on enterprise problems
- Identify barriers to AI adoption and build practical ways to overcome them

Technical leadership & coaching

- Act as a hands-on mentor, working directly alongside developers to demonstrate better engineering approaches
- Lead architecture discussions, solution reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Influence engineering standards and technical decisions without relying on formal line-management authority
- Help teams become more independent, confident and technically mature

Product & stakeholder collaboration

- Partner with product leaders, engineering managers, architects and business stakeholders
- Explain complex technical options so the business can make informed decisions
- Build credibility with both engineering practitioners and technology leadership

What you bring

- A strong track record in modern software engineering and delivery of complex systems
- Practical solution architecture capability - you can explain major architectural decisions and trade-offs in detail
- Current hands-on credibility through delivery, prototyping, experimentation or substantive technical work
- Real, applied experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development - with evidence of how it improved workflows, quality or outcomes
- A product engineering mindset: you connect architecture decisions to customer journeys, business processes and outcomes
- Demonstrable ability to coach, mentor and upskill other engineers
- Robust communication and a collaborative, curious, low-ego working style

📌 Staff / Principal Engineer AI-Native Engineering (Secunderabad)
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📍 Secunderabad