Senior Manager, GenAI Platform Engineer

Job Description

Senior Manager, GenAI Platform Engineer

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 new milestones in global healthcare. Be part of an organization 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 a 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 the company’s 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 the 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:

As a Senior Manager level Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in engineering a platform that can be used by our company to create, manage, use, test, and experiment with generative AI. Your extensive experience in managing teams and projects will be crucial in leading a team of developers and engineers, fostering collaboration, growth, and success for your team, and delivering high-quality software backends integrated with highly performant frontend applications. Additionally, your exposure and understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) will be essential in integrating advanced AI functionalities into our software solutions.

What will you do in this role:

• Develop and maintain a system that supports other engineers, especially those working with generative AI technologies.
• Manage and support a team of developers, fostering collaboration, growth, and success.
• Utilize your understanding of Generative AI and LLMs to enhance or otherwise direct development of application functionalities.
• Monitor the performance, scalability, and security of the platform.
• Stay up-to-date with advancements in AI, full stack development, and cloud technologies.
• Perform basic risk assessments for small information systems. Contribute to the identification of risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures. Suggest alternate solutions or countermeasures to mitigate risks.
• Design test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting test outcomes.
• Elicit requirements for systems and software life cycle working practices and automation. Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people.
• Undertake complete design of moderately complex software applications or components. Specify user and/or system interfaces. Assist as part of a team in the design of components of larger software systems.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies with the team to execute on prioritized projects and features.

 What Should you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any technology stream.
• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering and managing teams.
• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
• Proficiency in common programming languages and frameworks for platform engineering (e.g., Java, Python, Spring Boot, Express).
• Proficiency in and experience implementing platform tooling, including (but not limited to) authentication services, observability modules and application performance monitoring, service mesh, API documentation practices, infrastructure-as-code, designing deployment patterns, and microservice development.
• Basic familiarity with AI libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Langchain or similar).
• Basic familiarity with AI libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Langchain or similar).
• Knowledge of databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB) and data structures.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in infrastructure design and implementation
• Experience in Agile Ways of Working and delivery (Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development etc.)
• Experience in risk and compliance management for infrastructure services
• Experience in managing Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) principles

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Design Applications, Information Security, Machine Learning, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

04/18/2025

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