Senior AI & Python Technical Lead
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The Senior AI & Python Technical Lead will lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI, generative AI, and cloud-native solutions.
The role requires technical leadership, team management, stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI platforms.
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About the Company
The company operates across Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics and develops medicines, intelligent devices, and technologies intended to improve people's lives.
The organization emphasizes innovation, inclusion, flexible working culture, personal development, and career advancement.
Role Overview
The Senior AI & Python Technical Lead will lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI, generative AI, and cloud-native solutions.
The role requires technical leadership, team management, stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor AI, Python, ML, data, MLOps, cloud, and solution architecture professionals.
- Own technical architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, and solution delivery.
- Drive AI innovation, proofs of concept, reusable frameworks, enterprise AI adoption, and platform modernization.
- Lead cross-functional delivery with business stakeholders and establish best practices across AI, software engineering, DevOps, cloud, and MLOps.
Candidate Profile
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, AI, ML, data science, software engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 10 years of hands-on Python software engineering and enterprise application development experience.
- At least five years designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI/ML and generative AI solutions.
- At least three years architecting RAG, Agentic AI, and enterprise AI platforms.
- Experience leading technical teams as a Technical Lead, AI Engineering Manager, Principal Engineer, or Solution Architect.
- Experience delivering enterprise AI platforms on AWS or another major cloud provider.
- Strong stakeholder management, engineering governance, solution architecture, and large-scale Agile delivery experience.
Programming and Backend
- Python, SQL, and NoSQL are listed for programming and backend development.
- The technical stack includes FastAPI, Flask, Django, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and distributed systems.
AI and Generative AI
- The AI stack includes PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and DSPy.
- Generative AI capabilities include LLMs, RAG, GraphRAG, AI agents, multi-agent systems, prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search, and hybrid search.
- Agent frameworks include LangGraph, CrewAI, Microsoft AutoGen, and LangChain Agents.
Platforms, Operations, and Governance
- Listed vector databases include Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Milvus, and FAISS.
- LLMOps and evaluation tools include LangSmith, Ragas, DeepEval, OpenAI Evals, and MLflow, with model monitoring and AI observability.
- AI security topics include guardrails, prompt injection protection, PII protection, responsible AI, and AI governance.
- Cloud and operations technologies include AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure as code.
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