# Sr Director, AI & Engineering

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: Hyderabad
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a Sr Director, AI & Engineering to lead the enterprise engineering and AI-enabled development-lifecycle strategy for a portfolio of products and platforms.

The successful candidate will set the strategy, translate business priorities into a multi-year capability roadmap, and lead directors, engineering managers, principal engineers, and cross-functional leaders.

Key responsibilities include:

- Setting the enterprise engineering and AI-enabled development-lifecycle strategy

- Leading directors, engineering managers, principal engineers, and cross-functional leaders

- Owning the transformation from AI-assisted development to an AI-native operating model

- Establishing enterprise guardrails for AI use in engineering

- Sponsoring common developer platforms, reusable AI and agent capabilities, and automated policy controls

- Creating portfolio governance for use-case selection and progression from experiment to production

- Defining quality and safety standards for AI-generated and AI-enabled software

- Ensuring increased engineering throughput does not compromise stability or maintainability

- Building enterprise capability in product engineering, platform engineering, cloud, data, quality, security, reliability, AI engineering, and critical evaluation of AI outputs

- Partnering with senior Product, Business, Security, Data, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and Operations leaders to align AI-enabled delivery with customer needs and regulatory obligations

The ideal candidate will have:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

- Typically 15+ years of progressive software engineering and technology leadership experience

- Demonstrated success setting enterprise engineering strategy and delivering multi-year transformation

- Proven experience scaling AI-enabled development beyond individual tools or pilots

- Executive-level understanding of AI-assisted and agentic engineering

- Strong record of leading directors, managers, principal-level talent, global teams, vendors, and strategic partners

- Deep technology breadth across modern architecture, platform engineering, cloud, APIs, distributed systems, data, DevSecOps, quality engineering, observability, reliability, cybersecurity, and regulated production operations

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Information Systems
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- Cybersecurity

### Nice to have
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
- Clinical
- Commercial
- Corporate

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