Bayer Zydus Pharma
Principal Data Solutions
Principal-level engineer at Bayer Zydus Pharma in Hyderabad building scalable data solutions and web/data applications for pharma R&D and clinical development, plus GenAI/RAG and agentic AI systems (LLMs, vector search, MCP orchestration) on AWS/Azure. Core stack: Python (FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit), PostgreSQL/NoSQL, cloud-native services.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 12 years of software development experience with focus on Cloud technologies
- Strong Python with FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit and REST APIs
- Strong SQL with PostgreSQL and PLSQL, plus exposure to NoSQL and vector databases
- Experience building data pipelines and data-intensive applications for analytical/data science workloads
- Hands-on GenAI, LLM integration, prompt engineering, structured outputs and function/tool calling
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, semantic search and vector databases
- Agentic AI development with LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel or equivalent
- Understanding of agentification: agent orchestration, MCP, state/context management, tool selection, human-in-the-loop
- Hands-on cloud-native development on AWS and/or Azure (serverless, containers, managed databases, storage, APIs, AI services)
- Understanding of AI evaluation, observability, groundedness, traceability, guardrails and responsible AI
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and IT life cycle processes
- VACC (Visionary, Catalyst, Architect, Coach) leadership behaviors
Nice to have
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock or Azure AI/OpenAI for enterprise GenAI and agentic solutions
- Experience in the Pharmaceutical domain
Full description
Job Summary
Principal Data Solutions
Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain user interfaces for our web applications in Pharma research and clinical domains.
- Design, develop and maintain scalable data solutions supporting research, drug discovery and clinical development.
- Design and integrate data pipelines and services across relational, NoSQL, scientific and unstructured data sources.
- Collaborate with scientists and data scientists to operationalize analytical models, ML solutions and scientific workflows.
- Develop GenAI and RAG solutions using LLMs, embeddings, vector search and enterprise knowledge sources.
- Drive agentification of R&D and data science workflows using AI agents, tool calling, MCP and multi-step orchestration.
- Build cloud-native AI and data solutions using AWS or using Azure services.
- Implement secure interaction between AI agents and scientific data, APIs, analytical tools and enterprise applications.
- Apply human-in-the-loop, guardrails, evaluation and monitoring to ensure AI solutions are reliable, traceable and appropriate for R&D use.
- Optimize applications, data pipelines and AI workloads for scalability, performance and cost.
- Maintain architecture, data flow, API and solution documentation throughout the development lifecycle.
Who You Are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with a minimum of 12 years of industry experience in software development, with a focus on Cloud technologies.
- Strong Python development skills with hands-on experience in FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit and REST APIs.
- Strong SQL and database experience with PostgreSQL, PLSQL, along with exposure to NoSQL and vector databases.
- Experience building data pipelines and data-intensive applications supporting analytical or data science workloads.
- Hands-on experience with GenAI, LLM integration, prompt engineering, structured outputs and function/tool calling.
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, semantic search, vector databases and grounding LLMs with enterprise or scientific data.
- Experience developing agentic AI solutions using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel or equivalent.
- Understanding of agentification, including agent orchestration, MCP, state/context management, tool selection and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Hands-on cloud-native development experience on AWS and/or Azure, including serverless, containers, managed databases, storage, API and AI services.
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock or Azure AI/OpenAI capabilities for developing enterprise GenAI and agentic solutions is good to have.
- Understanding of AI evaluation, observability, groundedness, traceability, guardrails and responsible AI practices.