# Executive Director, Applied AI Engineering

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

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking an Executive Director, Applied AI Engineering to lead product engineering delivery across Clinical, Commercial, and Corporate technology portfolios.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Lead product engineering delivery across multiple portfolios and own engineering execution from concept through deployment and business value realization.

- Establish modern product-centric engineering practices and PDLC standards.

- Improve delivery predictability, release quality, and operational excellence.

- Drive modernization of legacy platforms into cloud-native, API-first architectures.

- Develop reusable engineering frameworks, services, and accelerators.

- Lead distributed product engineering teams across global delivery centers.

**Applied AI, Product AI & GenAI Leadership**

- Define and execute Applied AI and Product AI strategy across engineering portfolios.

- Operationalize Generative AI, RAG, Agentic AI, and intelligent workflow automation capabilities.

- Drive AI-enabled business capabilities within Clinical, Commercial, and Corporate products.

**AI-PDLC & Engineering Productivity Transformation**

- Lead enterprise adoption of AI Delivery Lifecycle (AI-PDLC) practices.

- Drive AI-assisted software engineering across the SDLC.

- Introduce engineering copilots and AI-assisted development workflows.

**Cross-Functional AI Delivery & Platform Enablement**

- Partner with Data Governance, Enterprise Data, Architecture, MLOps, DataOps, Security, and Quality Engineering organizations to deliver production-grade AI solutions.

- Drive alignment between Product Engineering and enterprise AI platform capabilities.

**Engineering Portfolio & Value Realization**

- Manage a large-scale Product Engineering and Applied AI portfolio.

- Partner with Product Leadership to prioritize investments based on business value and strategic objectives.

**Required Qualifications**

- 20+ years of progressive technology leadership experience.

- 10+ years leading large software engineering organizations.

- 5+ years at Executive Director, Senior Director, VP, or equivalent leadership level.

- Proven track record managing organizations of 100+ technology professionals.

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## Skills

### Required
- Applied AI
- Product AI
- GenAI
- AI-PDLC
- Cloud-native architectures
- API-first architectures
- Generative AI
- RAG
- Agentic AI
- intelligent workflow automation

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