Lead Software Engineer (AI and DevOps)

SimCorp A/S; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global hybrid work policy

Growth and innovation

Self-Direction

Inclusive and diverse company culture

Work-life balance

Empowerment

Job summary

SimCorp A/S in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (DevOps) to drive DevOps excellence for AI-enabled software in a fast-paced FinTech environment. You will lead a scrum team, guide junior engineers, and ensure delivery on time and scale.

The role blends hands-on engineering with architectural thinking, focusing on Azure-based infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and guardrails for AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on DevOps experience in a modern software environment.
• Strong CI/CD discipline with experience in Azure cloud ecosystem.
• Ability to lead teams, mentor engineers and deliver on commitments.
• Deep understanding of Azure services, security, and governance.
• Experience with AI/ML workloads and instrumenting reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive DevOps best practices and Azure infrastructure for AI-enabled software.
• Lead design and development of DevOps solutions and pipelines.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Collaborate with product, design and QA to ensure seamless delivery.
• Ensure observability, reliability, security, and scalable deployments.
• Participate in code reviews and promote best practices across teams.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Azure

Leadership

Collaboration

Tools

Azure

Azure OpenAI

Azure Foundry

Kubernetes

App Insights

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Lead Software Engineer – AI and DevOps

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

WHAT MAKES US, US

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

In SimCorp, we help some of the biggest financial institutions in the world be successful by simplifying their accounting, operations, and investments. We do this through IT systems, processes, and financial knowledge. High quality, performing, secure, and cost-effective software is at the core of what we do. To build, maintain and operate this software, engineers are essential to us.

SimCorp's AI & Insights area is building the foundation for the agentic future of investment operations: Running SimCorp agents, leveraging partner agents, and integrating with clients workflows. The AI Platform team owns that foundation: a compliant, standardized, secure, and user-friendly agentic ecosystem that domain teams can leverage when building their AI features.

The team's recent deliveries and current focus include preparing Agent Orchestrator and SimCorp One Neo for production, publishing the Agent Development Stack, implementing evaluation, trust, safety and guardrails, progressing multi-agent orchestration, and exploring MCP for SimCorp One APIs.

You will be working with a team located in Noida/Hyderabad in India and Copenhagen, Denmark. The Product Development team functions as a center of enablement for artificial intelligence (AI), providing knowledge and guidelines to other teams, as well as working hands on implementing and operating solutions with AI.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

The Lead Software Engineer (DevOps) at SimCorp, at the IC5 grade, is responsible for

DevOps best practices and the Azure cloud ecosystem for AI enabled software solutions. This role requires a strong mix of hands‑on engineering, architectural thinking, and leadership to ensure both immediate delivery and long‑term sustainability. You will be part of a scrum team working closely with Product Owner and business stakeholders. The Lead Software Engineer takes ownership of key engineering projects, provides technical guidance to junior engineers, and ensures that software is delivered on time and within scope. This position requires strong problem‑solving skills, expertise in software engineering practices, and the ability to work in a collaborative and fast‑paced environment.

We work team‑based, so your primary responsibility is as a team member. You need to make sure the team delivers on its commitments, that it’s a good place to work for you and your teammates, and that it continuously improves.

Daily tasks are for example:

• Build and maintain Infrastructure, CI/CD process and monitoring for AI solutions developed using C#, .Net and Azure.
• Going from proof‑of‑concepts to high quality, production ready solutions.
• Lead the design and development of DevOps solutions and infrastructure ensuring they meet business needs and technical requirements
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering team, fostering a collaborative and high‑performance environment
• Collaborate with product management, design, and quality assurance teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring high‑quality solutions that are scalable, reliable, and performant
• Ensure adherence to Devops best practices, including industry standards, testing, and documentation
• Take ownership of key features and components, driving their design and implementation from concept to delivery
• Continuously assess and improve engineering processes, AI advancements, automation, recommending new tools and technologies to enhance productivity and software quality
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring that the team follows best practices and maintains high standards for azure infrastructure and pipelines.

WHAT WE VALUE

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above.

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience with DevOps.
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD, industry best practices and tooling
• Sound understanding of Azure cloud services, infrastructure, pipelines, scalability and architecture
• Experience deploying solutions using Azure OpenAI, Azure Foundry, model versioning & quota mgmt.
• Experience with RAG pipelines (Azure AI Search, embedding pipelines, indexing jobs)
• Exposure to Agentic frameworks (MAF, MCP/A2A plugins, etc)
• Observability design (App Insights/Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry) and incident response
• Good understanding of Managed Identity first, Key Vault integration, secure network boundaries, Azure Policy, RBAC, networking, private endpoints
• Solid experience of Azure Bicep, PowerShell scripts and Yaml for IaC.
• Understanding of data governance (PII, tenant isolation) for AI workloads

As a person, you have the following traits:

• Taking ownership. Comfortable taking the lead on tasks.
• Earn trust, think big, and take calculated risks.
• You collaborate with team members to work towards common goals.
• Solid problem‑solving skills and comfortable questioning assumptions and as‑is.
• Exhibits a consistent approach and a creative mindset.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and values teamwork
• Like to have fun at work and positivity comes easily to you
• Excellent English verbal and communication skills

BENEFITS

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
• Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
• Self‑Direction - High degree of self‑organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
• Inclusive and diverse company culture
• Work‑life balance – We believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of ourselves, both in private life and as colleagues in the workplace
• Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry‑leading, full, front‑to‑back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best‑in‑class solutions to our clients.

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