Solution Lead - AI Engineer

UPS

Chennai District

On-site

INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

UPS recherche un Lead AI Platform & Automation Engineer pour posséder et faire évoluer notre plateforme IA d’entreprise. Vous dirigerez IBM watsonx et Vertex AI, assurant l’onboarding, l’automatisation et la gouvernance en collaboration avec les équipes Data Science, Engineering et Analytics.

Le poste exige un leadership technique fort, la capacité d’architecturer des solutions et de scaler les plateformes, tout en alignant plusieurs équipes interdisciplinaires sur les objectifs métier.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s ou Master en informatique, ingénierie ou domaine technique connexe.
  • 8+ années d’expérience en cloud engineering, MLOps ou leadership de plateforme.
  • Expérience avérée de gestion d’environnements IBM watsonx et Vertex AI en production.
  • Mise en œuvre d’automatisation de pipelines sécurisés via Terraform, GitOps et workflows conteneurisés.
  • Connaissance des cadres de gouvernance IA et conformité.
  • Connaissance des outils BI (Power BI, Looker) et modélisation sémantique.

Responsibilities

  • Diriger la stratégie et l’intégration des plateformes IBM watsonx et Vertex AI, veiller à la gouvernance et l’évolutivité.
  • Concevoir et gérer des pipelines CI/CD et MLOps à l’échelle de l’entreprise.
  • Concevoir des pipelines Agentic AI et intégrer les flux IA dans les capacités plateforme.
  • Mettre en œuvre le DevSecOps et les contrôles de sécurité dans les flux IA et applications.
  • Fournir des orientations BI (Power BI, Looker) et superviser le modelling sémantique et les lacs de données.

Skills

Cloud engineering
MLOps leadership
CI/CD pipelines
Team leadership
Python

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

IBM watsonx.ai
watsonx.governance
Vertex AI
Azure ML
Terraform
Kubernetes
Docker
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI

Job description

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Job Summary
Fiche de poste

We are looking for a strategic and hands-on Lead AI Platform & Automation Engineer to own and scale our enterprise AI platform capabilities. This role will serve as the primary owner of the IBM watsonx platform and Google Cloud Vertex AI platform, while providing support to Azure driving adoption, standardisation, automation, and governance across the organisation. The role also includes leading a team responsible for day-to-day AI model and application onboarding, pipeline automation, DevSecOps integration, BI tooling, and AI governance—including maintenance of IBM watsonx.governance and vertex AI.

This is a high-impact position suited for a technically strong leader who can lead technical team, architect solutions, scale platforms, and align multiple teams across engineering, data science, and business domains.

Key Responsibilities
Platform Leadership
  • Serve as the lead owner of IBM watsonx and Google Vertex AI platforms, overseeing configuration, governance, and operational maturity.
  • Drive platform onboarding strategy, enablement, and hands‑on support across data science, engineering, and analytics teams.
  • Standardise reusable frameworks, templates, and infrastructure patterns for both platforms to accelerate project delivery.
AI & ML Pipeline Automation
  • Architect and manage enterprise-wide CI/CD and MLOps pipelines for:
  • Model training, tuning, evaluation, and deployment
  • Data ingestion, transformation, and streaming
  • Infrastructure provisioning and teardown (IaC)
  • Build and maintain reusable templates for AI applications, workflows, and serving endpoints in IBM watsonx.ai and Vertex AI.
Agentic AI Enablement
  • Design and operationalise pipelines for Agentic AI systems using LLMs, orchestration agents, and decision engines.
  • Integrate intelligent agent workflows with platform capabilities and monitor lifecycle behaviour and governance adherence.
AI Governance (incl. watsonx.governance)
  • Implement and operationalise AI governance frameworks using IBM watsonx.governance.
  • Define model approval workflows, track metadata, enforce responsible AI policies, and ensure transparency, bias detection, and explainability.
  • Collaborate with legal, compliance, and information security teams to embed AI governance across all AI/ML systems.
DevSecOps & Automation
  • Integrate DevSecOps practices into pipelines—automating vulnerability scans, access policies, and secrets management.
  • Embed security compliance and quality gates into all CI/CD workflows across AI and application domains.
Business Intelligence & Semantic Modeling
  • Provide architectural guidance to BI teams using Power BI and Looker.
  • Oversee data modelling, semantic layer standardisation, and connectivity to enterprise data lakes and warehouses.
Team Leadership
  • Lead and mentor a cross‑functional team of AI platform engineers, MLOps practitioners, BI analysts, and DevSecOps engineers.
  • Define goals, delivery milestones, documentation standards, and best practices for scalable operations.
Qualifications
Education
  • Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, Engineering, or related technical field.
Experience
  • 8+ years in cloud engineering, MLOps, or platform leadership roles.
  • 3+ years leading enterprise platform delivery and infrastructure automation.
  • Proven experience managing IBM watsonx and Vertex AI in production environments.
  • Hands‑on delivery of secure, automated pipelines using Terraform, GitOps, and containerised workflows.
  • Experience implementing AI governance and compliance using commercial tools and internal frameworks.
  • Familiarity with BI tools (Power BI, Looker) and semantic modelling techniques.
Technical Skills
  • Platforms: IBM watsonx.ai, watsonx.governance, Vertex AI, Azure ML
  • Automation: Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
  • Languages: Python, Bash, YAML
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
  • ML Tools: MLflow, TFX, or similar
  • Governance: Bias detection, metadata tracking, model lineage, risk management
Preferred Qualifications
  • Certifications: GCP, IBM, or Azure AI/MLOps certifications
  • Experience with Agentic AI systems (e.g., LangChain, IBM Orchestrate, or custom frameworks)
  • Familiarity with NIST, EU AI Act, or internal model risk governance frameworks
  • Prior experience deploying internal platform‑as‑a‑service offerings for AI/ML
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