# Senior Leadership and Technical Authority for Autonomous Development

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a recognized leader in modern software engineering to lead the move to autonomous, AI-driven development at GSK. You will set the direction for and lead the adoption of autonomous development tools across DevCMO Tech engineering.

**Job Purpose:** This is a senior leadership and technical authority role for the evolution of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) across DevCMO Tech engineering. You will lead the implementation of approved tools, integrate autonomous agents into collaboration and delivery tooling, and architect and oversee the Azure and GCP cloud infrastructure that supports these tools.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Set the technical strategy for autonomous development across DevCMO Tech, and evaluate tools such as Cursor Cloud Agents, Cognition or similar through hands-on proofs of concept.

- Lead the implementation of approved tools, including environments, access and permissions, guardrails, and cost and usage monitoring.

- Integrate autonomous agents into collaboration and delivery tooling, including Microsoft Teams and Azure DevOps.

- Architect and oversee the Azure and GCP cloud infrastructure that supports these tools.

- Keep autonomous development practices compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory (GxP) standards.

- Embed with engineering teams for periods of time to understand how they work, introduce the tools and practices, and coach them through the change.

- Work across organizational boundaries to build alignment and get buy-in for process change.

- Define and share best practices, reference architectures, patterns and playbooks.

- Build communities of practice, run demos and workshops, and present clearly to engineers and to senior executives.

- Establish baselines before adoption, then measure and show the productivity gains from autonomous development.

- Gather evidence across four areas: delivery flow, quality and rework, developer experience and adoption, and cost and business outcomes.

- Communicate results honestly, including where tools do not deliver, and adjust the approach based on the evidence.

- Lead and develop a small team of engineers and architects, and provide technical direction to teams made up of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or related technical discipline.

- Experience in modern software engineering and developer productivity, with a track record of leading enterprise-wide change in engineering practices.

- Experience with autonomous or agentic coding tools, such as Cursor (including Cloud Agents), Cognition or similar platforms.

- Experience with Azure DevOps and integrating it with other tools through APIs and automation.

- Experience in integrating engineering workflows with Microsoft Teams.

- Experience in designing and operating solutions on both Azure and GCP cloud infrastructure.

- Experience in DevOps and automation: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation and Git-based workflows.

- Exceptional communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

- Experience in leading and developing teams, and technical leadership of teams that include partners and vendors.

- Experience in security and identity practices for cloud and AI tooling.

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## Skills

### Required
- Computer Programming
- Data Analysis
- Data Architecture Development
- Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform
- Data Engineering
- Data Governance
- Data Ingestion
- Data Integration
- Data Migrations
- Data Modeling
- Data Transformation
- ETL Development
- Performance Optimizations
- Performance Tuning
- Structured Query Language (SQL)

### Nice to have
- Experience in regulated environments
- Experience with AI/ML and LLM-based tooling
- Experience defining governance and guardrails for AI-assisted development
- Familiarity with R&D, clinical development or pharmaceutical technology
- A public profile in the engineering community
- Experience delivering and integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products

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