Lead- Software Engineering - India COE

As a Lead Software Engineer in AIS Software Engineering, you will leverage your experience to implement and refine technical solutions for a wide range of industries. Working with a diverse team, you will engage in the entire software engineering life cycle, focusing on designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying sophisticated software engineering solutions and infrastructure at a production scale suitable for the world’s largest companies. You will also mentor junior engineers to follow best practices during all phases of development. This role also requires collaborating with remote and distributed teams, including both technical and consulting teams, across the globe to deliver seamless and scalable solutions.

• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the AIS COE (e.g., data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, platform engineers) to build software solutions to solve client’s business problems.
• Technical lead with expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, AI, and application architecture design, driving delivery of end-to-end solutions for client cases (from solution architecture to hands-on development work)
• Participate in the software development life cycle including designing distributed systems, reviewing documentation, and conducting code reviews
• Collaborate on the development of reusable common frameworks, models, and components to efficiently address common software engineering challenges across various industries and business functions
• Champion best demonstrated practices in software engineering, and share learnings with team members in AIS about theoretical and technical developments in software engineering 
• Lead industry-leading innovations that translate into great impact for our clients in casework
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, software analysis, and software engineering, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the software platform
• Travel Requirement: Minimal, based on project needs and training opportunities

ABOUT YOU  

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is a plus.
• 6+ years of professional hands-on experience in web development, programming languages, version control, software design pattern, infrastructure and deployment, integration and unit testing implementation 
• Working knowledge (4+ years) of Python
• Experience with server-side frameworks and technologies such as FastAPI, Node.js, Flask.
• Experience with any one or more Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Strong computer science fundaments in software structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
• Experience with software architecture, DB design, scalability and SQL
• Experience with RDBMS (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle) and NoSQLs databases (e.g.. MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge of client-side technologies such as React, Vue.js, HTML and CSS
• Experience working in accordance with DevSecOps principles, and familiarity with industry deployment best practices using CI/CD tools, MLOps, LLMOps and infrastructure as code (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform)
• Experience with agile development methodologies and principles 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technicalities of solutions, algorithms and techniques with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
• Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
• Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams