Senior AI & Python Technical Lead
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Work Your Magic with us! Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Senior AI & Python Technical Lead We are looking for an experienced Senior AI & Python Technical Lead to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and cloud-native solutions. This role requires a strong technical leader with team management experience, capable of driving solution architecture, mentoring engineers, stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI platforms.
Your Role Lead and mentor AI Engineers, Python Developers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and Solution Architects. Own technical architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, and solution delivery. Drive AI innovation, PoCs, reusable frameworks, enterprise AI adoption, and platform modernization. Engage with business stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions.
Establish engineering best practices across AI, software engineering, DevOps, cloud, and MLOps.
Who You Are
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline. At least 10 years of hands-on experience in Python software engineering and enterprise application development. At least 5 years of experience designing, developing and deploying production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions. At least 3 years of experience architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI and enterprise AI platforms.
Proven experience leading technical teams as a Technical Lead, AI Engineering Manager, Principal Engineer or Solution Architect. Experience delivering enterprise AI platforms on AWS or other major cloud providers. Strong experience in stakeholder management, engineering governance, solution architecture and large-scale Agile delivery.
Technical Skills
Programming & Backend Python, SQL, NoSQL FastAPI, Flask, Django REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, Distributed Systems AI / Machine Learning PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn Hugging Face Transformers LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy Generative AI LLMs, RAG, GraphRAG AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering Embeddings, Semantic Search, Hybrid Search Agent Frameworks LangGraph CrewAI Microsoft
AutoGen LangChain Agents Vector Databases Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate ChromaDB, Milvus, FAISS LLMOps & Evaluation LangSmith, Ragas, DeepEval OpenAI Evals, MLflow Model Monitoring, Prompt Lifecycle Management, AI Observability AI Security & Governance NeMo Guardrails, Llama Guard, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Prompt Injection Protection, PII Protection, Responsible AI, AI Governance Cloud & AI Platforms AWS Bedrock, SageMaker ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway EC2, S3, DynamoDB, OpenSearch
EventBridge, Step Functions, CloudWatch, IAM DevOps & MLOps Docker, Kubernetes Terraform, Jenkins GitHub Actions, ArgoCD CI/CD, GitOps, Model Deployment, Infrastructure as Code What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.
We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress! Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
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