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The Principal Engineer is expected to lead AI-driven development, including specifying, orchestrating, evaluating and automating engineering workflows, while maintaining strong core software engineering practices.\nThe role reports to the Head of Engineering and is part of the Product & Technology India team, working closely with Engineering, Product, Technology and business stakeholders in a fast-paced, agile environment.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership: Owns complex technical initiatives, sets engineering standards and drives high-quality solutions across teams.\n\nAI-Driven Engineering: Promotes AI-native development practices, including AI agents, automation, evaluation and responsible AI governance.\n\nArchitecture & Design: Leads design reviews, drives technical decisions, manages architectural debt and ensures alignment across teams.\n\nRisk Management: Identifies and addresses technical, operational, security and AI-related risks.\n\nDelivery Management: Owns delivery predictability, quality, productivity and execution metrics across teams.\n\nStakeholder Collaboration: Works closely with Product and Engineering teams to understand requirements and balance scope, speed and quality.\n\nPlanning & Execution: Breaks down complex projects into manageable tasks, defines ownership and drives execution plans.\n\nCross-Team Collaboration: Leads technical initiatives across teams and promotes reusable platforms, tools and engineering standards.\n\nKnowledge Sharing: Conducts workshops, shares technical expertise and encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams.\n\nAgile Practices: Applies Agile and XP methodologies to improve development efficiency and delivery.\n\nMentoring & Development: Mentors engineers, develops technical leaders and encourages system-level thinking.\n\nRecruitment & Performance: Participates in technical interviews and supports Engineering Managers with team performance development.\n\nEngineering Excellence: Continuously improves architectural health, engineering practices and overall team performance.\n\n 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership across complex, multi-team initiatives.\n\nMicroservices & SOA: Designing scalable, modular, loosely coupled architectures.\n\nAPI & Web Service Integration: Building and integrating APIs for seamless system communication.\n\nAgile & SDLC: Leading end-to-end software delivery through iterative, collaborative and structured development practices.\n\nProject & Programme Management: Managing cross-team initiatives, resources, timelines and delivery.\n\nTechnology Strategy & Governance: Aligning technology investments with business goals, including AI strategy, responsible AI adoption, governance and risk management.\n\nAI & Machine Learning: Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model routing, evaluation and observability.\n\nCI/CD & DevOps: Implementing automated testing and deployment pipelines, including AI evaluation gates.\n\nCloud Computing: Designing and managing scalable, cost-effective solutions on AWS/GCP.\n\nIT Security Management: Managing security risks, data protection, access controls and AI-specific security threats.\n\nChange Management: Driving technology transformation and AI adoption across teams.\n\nRequirements Gathering: Translating business needs into technical and non-functional requirements.\n\nAlgorithms & Problem Solving: Applying algorithmic thinking and complexity analysis to build efficient, scalable solutions.\n\nDesired Skills & Competencies\n\nExperience in the betting and gaming industry.\n\nStakeholder Management: Builds strong working relationships and engages effectively with stakeholders.\n\nCollaboration: Communicates clearly and works well across teams.\n\nPeople Development: Invests in developing personal and team capabilities.\n\nAnalytical Thinking: Uses critical thinking and commercial understanding to make informed decisions.\n\nStrategic Direction: Helps define and drive business and technology priorities.\n\nAgility: Adapts quickly while managing risks and changing priorities.\n\nPerformance Focus: Continuously improves standards and drives high performance.\n\nIntegrity & Ownership: Takes accountability and makes responsible decisions.\n\nResults Orientation: Plans effectively and delivers outcomes.\n\n At Entain India, we offer a package and the support people need to make an impact. Join us, and a great compensation package is just the beginning. You can expect to receive benefits like:\nSafe home pickup and home drop.\nA regular bonus and great pension.\n24 days annual leave.\nExtra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.\nLife assurance and Income Protection.\nPrivate healthcare and wellbeing support.\nINR 3,000 per month Communication allowance.\nUp to INR 16,000 per year in Crèche expenses (children under 3).\nEqual Opportunities.\nIf you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we'll support you.\nWe're committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and able to be themselves.\nWe're an equal opportunities employer. 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