AI Engineering Program Leader

About the Company - At CitiusTech, we constantly strive to solve the industry's greatest challenges with technology, creativity, and agility. With over 8,500 healthcare technology professionals worldwide, CitiusTech powers healthcare digital innovation, business transformation, and industry-wide convergence for over 140 organizations through next-generation technologies, solutions, and products. We aim to accelerate the transition to a human-first, sustainable, and digital healthcare ecosystem with the world's leading Healthcare and life sciences organizations and our partners. Here is an opportunity for you to make a difference and collaborate with global leaders to shape the future of healthcare and positively impact human lives. Our vision: To inspire new possibilities for the health ecosystem with technology and human ingenuity.

About the Role - You’ll lead high‑impact AI and analytics programs with full ownership from strategy to execution. Work directly with senior leadership to influence enterprise‑level technology decisions. Drive modern engineering practices and shape next‑gen AI and cloud architectures. Lead and mentor high‑performing engineering teams across multiple technology domains. Make a meaningful impact by delivering scalable, innovative digital solutions in healthcare.

Responsibilities -

• Drive execution across large scale GenAI, AI/ML platforms and digital products, ensuring outcomes align with clinical, operational, and enterprise priorities.
• Experience in building prediction, assistance and actionability platforms that deliver operational impact.
• Trusted advisor to the CTO and CDO office to translate strategic objectives into measurable, value‑driven outcomes.
• Provide architecture oversight for GCP‑native solutions (Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI), ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Drive adoption of modern AI engineering practices including AI/ML‑first and Gen AI architectures, CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Build, mentor, and scale high‑performing teams across AI/ML, GenAI, data engineering, full‑stack, mobile, and cloud domains.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and benefit realization. Ensure strong delivery governance.
• Drive standardization, reusable patterns, accelerators, and reference architectures across programs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery frameworks, operating models, and best practices across the AI and analytics portfolio.

Qualifications -

• Must‑Have: 15 years of experience in software, platform, or product engineering, with 7 years in senior engineering and delivery roles.
• Strong execution track record delivering secure, compliant, scalable platforms in regulated environments.
• Healthcare IT experience (provider domain preferred), with hands‑on exposure to HIPAA, and regulated SDLCs.
• Experience with AI platforms, enterprise chatbots, agentic AI, and clinical or operational AI use cases.
• Proven experience leading enterprise‑scale AI / GenAI programs from strategy through production in complex healthcare environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI etc.
• Good understanding of AI/ML engineering, MLOps, LLMOps, and foundation model integration.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex engineering strategy into clear business outcomes for executive audiences.

Required Skills -

• Experience defining and operationalizing FinOps, cloud economics, and governance guardrails at scale.
• Prior experience working with large academic medical centers or healthcare systems.
• Experience contributing to AI Centers of Excellence (CoE), accelerators, or reusable enterprise platforms.

Location: Remote (With occasional travel to client location)

Equal Opportunity Statement: If you require assistance or accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please contact praveena.praveen@citiustech.com. This posting complies with applicable pay transparency laws in states such as California, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and others. CitiusTech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Life at CitiusTech: We focus on building highly motivated engineering teams and thought leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset, centered on our core values of Passion, Respect, Openness, Unity, and Depth (PROUD) of knowledge. Our success lies in creating a fun, transparent, non-hierarchical, diverse work culture that focuses on continuous learning and work-life balance. Rated by our employees as the ‘Great Place to Work for’ according to the Great Place to Work survey. We offer you a comprehensive set of benefits to ensure that you have a long and rewarding career with us. Join CitiusTech. Be You. Be Awesome. To learn more about CitiusTech, visit www.citiustech.com.