{"id":4225964,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-senior-director-distinguished-engineer-sdlc-and-autonomous-development-devcmo-tech","title":"Senior Director, Distinguished Engineer – SDLC and Autonomous Development, DevCMO Tech","company":{"id":6649,"name":"GSK","domain":"gsk.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/gsk","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":72,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.653,"repost_share":0.042,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"Databricks","optional":true},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":true},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T07:51:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Are you a recognized leader in modern software engineering, with the technical depth and the credibility to change how a large engineering organization builds software? Do you want to lead the move to autonomous, AI-driven development at GSK, and prove its value with evidence? Do you want to apply this to Clinical Trials technology, to deliver faster, reduce risk and optimize cost and timelines?\nWe'd like to hear from you if you think you might make a good fit!\nJob Purpose\nThis is a senior leadership and technical authority role for the evolution of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) across DevCMO Tech engineering. You will set the direction for, and lead the adoption of, autonomous development tools such as Cursor Cloud Agents and Cognition, or comparable platforms, so that engineering teams can make their development process progressively more autonomous. This supports strategic programs to improve patient enrolment in clinical trials and accelerate regulatory submissions using AI and modern tooling\nYou will do this by working inside engineering teams and across organizational boundaries. You will be hands-on with the tools and the Azure and GCP infrastructure behind them, and you will gather the evidence that shows what they deliver. You will lead a small team and work closely with other architects, engineers, product teams, R&D Tech central services, and Security, Quality and Regulatory partners.\nKey Responsibilities:\nTechnical direction and tooling\nSet 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. Recommend what to adopt based on value, security, compliance and cost.\nLead the implementation of approved tools, including environments, access and permissions, guardrails, and cost and usage monitoring.\nIntegrate autonomous agents into collaboration and delivery tooling, including Microsoft Teams and Azure DevOps (work items, repos, pull requests, pipelines and approvals), so agents can take work from backlog to reviewed code with appropriate human oversight.\nArchitect and oversee the Azure and GCP cloud infrastructure that supports these tools, including identity, networking, secrets management, sandboxed execution environments and observability.\nKeep autonomous development practices compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory (GxP) standards, including audit trails, traceability and validation expectations.\nEmbedding, influence and adoption\nEmbed with engineering teams for periods of time to understand how they work, introduce the tools and practices, and coach them through the change.\nWork across organizational boundaries (engineering groups, product teams, central services, Security, Quality, Regulatory and partners) to build alignment and get buy-in for process change.\nDefine and share best practices, reference architectures, patterns and playbooks (e.g. task specification, agent guardrails, review of agent-generated changes and testing expectations) that help teams make development more autonomous.\nBuild communities of practice, run demos and workshops, and present clearly to engineers and to senior executives.\nProving and reporting productivity gains\nEstablish baselines before adoption, then measure and show the productivity gains from autonomous development. Report the evidence to senior leaders and use it to guide where to invest next.\nGather evidence across four areas, for example:\nDelivery flow: cycle time, lead time, pull request throughput, and DORA metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate and time to recover). Example: cycle time from work item to merged pull request before and after agent adoption.\nQuality and rework: defect escape rate, test coverage, code review turnaround and rework rate. Example: the share of agent-generated pull requests merged without major rework.\nDeveloper experience and adoption: developer surveys, active usage by team, and the share of work items completed by agents. Example: survey results and usage trends by team over successive quarters.\nCost and business outcomes: cost per change, engineering hours saved, and time to deliver key clinical trial and regulatory milestones. Example: hours saved per release compared with the cost of the tools and cloud infrastructure.\nCommunicate results honestly, including where tools do not deliver, and adjust the approach based on the evidence.\nLeadership\nLead 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.\nKeep up with a fast-moving market, run experiments, and keep technical documentation and decisions up to date to support audits and reviews.\nWhy you?\nBasic Qualifications:\nWe are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer science or related technical discipline.\nExperience in modern software engineering and developer productivity, with a track record of leading enterprise-wide change in engineering practices.\nExperience with autonomous or agentic coding tools, such as Cursor (including Cloud Agents), Cognition or similar platforms.\nExperience with Azure DevOps (repos, boards, pipelines) and integrating it with other tools through APIs and automation.\nExperience in integrating engineering workflows with Microsoft Teams (e.g. bots, notifications, approvals and workflow automation).\nExperience in designing and operating solutions on both Azure and GCP cloud infrastructure.\nExperience in DevOps and automation: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and Git-based workflows.\nExperience in exceptional communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with evidence of gaining buy-in for change across teams and organizational boundaries, including by embedding in teams.\nExperience in leading and developing teams, and technical leadership of teams that include partners and vendors.\nExperience in security and identity practices for cloud and AI tooling (e.g. OAuth, secrets management, least privilege and access controls).\nPreferred Qualifications:\nIf you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:\nExperience in regulated environments, with awareness of GxP, audit review and validation requirements and Privileged Access Management.\nExperience with AI/ML and LLM-based tooling, such as prompt and context engineering, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent evaluation.\nExperience defining governance and guardrails for AI-assisted development, such as quality gates and cost controls.\nFamiliarity with R&D, clinical development or pharmaceutical technology, including clinical trial systems and regulatory submissions.\nA public profile in the engineering community, such as conference talks, publications or open source contributions.\nExperience delivering and integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and working with software vendors and strategic partners.\n Skills\nComputer 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)Why GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.\nPeople and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.\nInclusion at GSK:\nAs an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.\nPlease contact our Recruitment Team at  to discuss your needs.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. 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