# Senior Director, Distinguished Engineer – SDLC and Autonomous Development, DevCMO Tech

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? We'd like to hear from you if you think you might make a good fit! Job Purpose This 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 You 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

- **Id**: 4225964
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gsk-senior-director-distinguished-engineer-sdlc-and-autonomous-development-devcmo-tech>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **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**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10514
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Vaccines, Oncology Therapeutics, Infectious Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 6649
- **Name**: GSK
- **Domain**: gsk.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gsk>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **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

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Teams** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T07:51:57Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T09:46:53Z

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