Head of Engineer with AI/LLM

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 15+ years **Full-time Leadership Role**

Company: Avira Digital

Industry: Life Sciences FinTech Digital Transformation SaaS AI/ML

Role Overview

We are seeking a Head of Engineering Digital Platforms to lead the architecture, engineering, and delivery excellence of Avira’s Digital product suite.

This is a strategic technology leadership role — ideal for someone who thrives on building high-performance teams, modernizing architectures, and delivering large-scale, cloud-first, and AI-driven platforms.

The candidate will collaborate closely with Product, Delivery, and Operations leadership to define and execute Avira’s digital roadmap across FinTech, Healthcare, and Enterprise ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership & Architecture

• Define and own the engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap for Avira’s Digital Platforms (Athena, Nexus, IBex, Control Centers).
• Architect scalable, secure, and event-driven systems using microservices, serverless and Azure, AWS Cloud.
• Institutionalize best practices for Infrastructure-as-Code, CICD and DevSecOps.
• Drive modernization, API-first architecture, and cloud adoption initiatives.

Product Engineering & Delivery

• Partner with Product Owners to translate business vision into executable roadmaps.
• Lead multiple agile teams delivering quarterly releases with high quality, reliability, and predictability.
• Manage end-to-end software delivery, from design and build to production operations.
• Champion performance optimization, observability and proactive issue resolution.

People Leadership & Culture

• Build, mentor, and scale a world-class engineering organization across Java, .NET, AI/ML and ReactJS.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability and continuous learning.
• Manage both in-house and vendor teams, ensuring alignment, agility and productivity.

Governance & Strategic Leadership

• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders on strategy, governance and risk management.
• Ensure compliance with SOC-2, ISO, and client-specific controls.
• Represent Avira’s technology strategy in executive, client and partner forums.

Key Skills & Expertise

• Product Engineering Leadership
• Java / .NET / ReactJS / AWS / Kafka / Microservices
• Cloud-Native Architecture & DevSecOps
• CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Automation
• FinTech / Life Sciences / InsurTech Domains
• Agile Product Delivery & Release Governance
• AI/ML Integration & Data Platforms
• Team Building, Mentoring & Stakeholder Management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science and Engineering or related field
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and delivery with at least 5 years in leadership
• Proven track record in cloud-native product engineering, scalable architectures and large-scale delivery.Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile