Director-AI Engineering Solutions

Organization: Novo Nordisk GBS Bangalore

Lead the engineering vision behind Novo Nordisks AI revolution and build the team that turns breakthrough AI capabilities into production-ready solutions that reach millions of patients.

Your new role

As Director of AI Engineering Solutions you will build lead and scale Novo Nordisks AI Reinvent Product & Engineering capability. This is a senior technical leadership role where youll own AI-powered product delivery from use-case discovery and architecture through to production deployment and continuous improvement across commercial manufacturing supply chain and enterprise operations.

Youll sit at the intersection of advanced AI/GenAI engineering strategic product thinking and organisational leadership leading high-performing squads while serving as the senior technical voice bridging our AI Foundation team and the business domains that depend on AI to create competitive advantage.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and inspiring a multi-squad AI engineering organisation of 20 engineers across GenAI engineering ML engineering AI application engineering AI/MLOps and AI observability disciplines
• Owning end-to-end delivery of GenAI-powered products and applications including agentic systems multi-agent orchestration frameworks and autonomous AI workflows
• Partnering with business leaders and the VP of AI Reinvent & Engineering to identify validate and prioritise AI/GenAI use cases translating business strategy into a sequenced portfolio of AI engineering investments with clear ROI
• Defining architecture standards and engineering blueprints leading technical reviews to ensure scalability reliability security and compliance across all AI systems
• Establishing production MLOps practices including model monitoring hallucination detection feedback pipelines and AI incident response protocols
• Championing responsible AI principles and ensuring compliance with GDPR data residency requirements and Novo Nordisks AI governance framework
• Building Novo Nordisks reputation as a destination employer for world-class AI engineering talent through strategic hiring career development and fostering a culture of technical rigour and continuous learning

Your new department

In Enterprise IT & Quality you will be part of a business area that drives impact across the full Novo Nordisk value chain. We strive to stay close to our stakeholders in the business to ensure we deliver on their needs helping reach millions of people living with serious chronic diseases.The Enterprise AI team develops and deploys scalable artificial intelligence solutions that improve business processes decision-making and customer experiences across the organisation. We collaborate with domain experts to translate business needs into production-ready models ensure data governance and compliance and maintain reliable MLOps pipelines for continuous improvement. The atmosphere is dynamic and fast-paced fostering collaboration and innovation to drive impactful results with global reach across Novo Nordisks network.

Your skills & qualifications

Were looking for a proven AI engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of deep technical expertise and strategic organisational leadership. Youll bring with you:

• 15 years of progressive software/AI/ML engineering experience with 5 years in senior engineering leadership managing multi-team organisations
• Deep hands-on expertise in GenAI engineering: LLM-based applications RAG pipelines agentic systems prompt engineering and LLM evaluation at production scale with a proven track record of shipping AI/GenAI products end-to-end
• Strong experience with modern AI/GenAI technology stacks including LangChain/LangGraph Azure OpenAI OpenAI APIs vector databases (Pinecone Weaviate pgvector) and embedding models
• Experience architecting multi-agent systems and agentic orchestration frameworks in production environments combined with MLOps practices and production AI system reliability at scale
• Demonstrated ability to lead large high-performing engineering teams including hiring performance management and career development while translating complex business requirements into AI engineering strategy and delivered outcomes
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to build business cases define ROI and communicate AI investment decisions to executive stakeholders
• MSc/MBA/ in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Data Science or a closely related technical discipline (Bachelors degree with exceptional industry experience will be considered)

Nice to have: Hands-on experience with fine-tuning workflows for domain-specific LLM alignment familiarity with pharma-specific AI domains experience with Databricks and Azure ML knowledge of MCP server design or published contributions to the AI/ML engineering community.

Working at Novo Nordisk

For over 100 years weve approached our work with unwavering dedication to defeating serious chronic diseases. Today that mission drives us to push the boundaries of whats possible with AI because we know that breakthrough technology combined with diverse thinking and shared purpose creates lasting change for long-term health. Here youll join a culture built on mutual respect and warmth where ambitious innovation meets rigorous quality standards. As we transform into a leading global healthcare company youll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI engineering in pharma while building a team and engineering culture that sets new standards for the industry.

What we offer

There is of course more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Deadline: 25 May 2026 Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk were not chasing quick fixes were creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years weve been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of whats possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives seek out bold ideas and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together were making healthcare more accessible treating and preventing diseases and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us you become part of something bigger a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.