Engineering Transformation Lead

Staples India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Staples India is seeking a professional focused on embedding AI across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to boost developer productivity and enhance code quality. The role involves using AI tools to integrate into planning, development, testing, and release processes.

Key responsibilities include leveraging AI for engineering workflows, ensuring consistent code quality, and establishing reusable practices across teams. Candidates need to demonstrate experience in AI integration and SDLC optimization.

Qualifications

• Experience with applying AI to engineering workflows.
• Proven understanding of end-to-end SDLC integration.
• Ability to establish standardization at scale.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI-assisted tools in engineering workflows.
• Drive adoption of AI throughout the SDLC.
• Design and implement AI-driven workflows to enhance efficiency.
• Ensure consistent high-quality code output across teams.
• Enable context-aware development leveraging existing documentation.

Skills

AI-Driven SDLC Thinking

Engineering Workflow Optimization

Standardization & Scale Mindset

Job description

This role focuses on embedding AI across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to improve developer productivity, enhance code quality, and reduce manual effort. The expectation is not limited to AI-assisted coding, but to systematically integrate AI across planning, development, testing, and release workflows, while establishing consistent and reusable engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Leverage AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, code agents) as an integral part of engineering workflows.
• Apply AI across the end-to-end SDLC (planning → coding → testing → deployment) to improve speed, quality, and consistency of delivery.
• Drive adoption of AI beyond development into areas such as:
  • Requirement understanding and design support
  • Test generation and validation
  • Code review and defect detection
• Design and implement AI-driven workflows that reduce manual steps, minimize rework, and improve overall engineering efficiency.
• Establish and scale standardized, reusable patterns, including:
  • Prompt frameworks
  • Coding and design accelerators
  • AI-enabled development workflows
• Ensure consistent, high-quality code output across teams, independent of individual developer variability, improving maintainability and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Use AI to enhance quality engineering practices, including:
  • Increasing test coverage
  • Enabling early defect identificationSupporting structured and consistent code reviews
• Enable context-aware development, leveraging codebase, documentation, and work item context (tickets, user stories) to drive more accurate and aligned implementations.
• Reduce context gaps and inefficiencies, improving developer decision-making, productivity, and alignment to business and architectural intent.

Requirements

• AI applied to engineering workflows, not just model building
• End-to-end SDLC integration, not isolated tool usage
• Standardization and scale, not individual productivity hacks
• Quality and consistency, not just speed

Primary Skills

• AI-Driven SDLC Thinking
• Engineering Workflow Optimization
• Standardization & Scale Mindset

Secondary Skills (Important Differentiators)

• Quality-First Engineering Approach
• Context-Aware Problem Solving
• Adoption & Influence Across Teams