Job Description
Job Title:  AI LEAD L1
City:  Chennai
State/Province:  Tamil Nadu
Posting Start Date:  5/18/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description: 

Job Description

• 8+ years in software engineering roles (tech lead/Architect/DevEx/AI+MLOps), including hands-on delivery of web and API solutions.
• Strong experience in enabling teams with AI tooling in the SDLC (or demonstrably equivalent recent depth), including at-scale pilots or org-wide rollouts.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps (multi-stage, gated releases, environment approvals).
• Demonstrated success introducing new engineering practices/tools across multiple teams, with measurable outcomes (e.g., 40-50% development productivity, +15–25% coverage, reduced code review time).
Tooling familiarity (preferred stack)
• IDEs and assistants: VS Code, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Models, Major model provider ecosystems (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google models) and plugin/extension ecosystems.
• Repos and CI/CD: GitHub (Actions, Advanced Security), Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards).
• UI/UX: Figma (design systems, tokens, plugins), Storybook, design-to-code tools.
• APIs: OpenAPI/Swagger, Spectral, Stoplight/SwaggerHub, Postman, API Management.
• Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright, Pact (contract testing).
• Platform/IaC: Azure (AKS/App Services, APIM, Key Vault, Monitor/App Insights), Terraform/Bicep, Docker/Kubernetes.
• Observability/Sec: App Insights/Log Analytics.
 

Core technical competencies͏

• SDLC mastery (hands-on):
• End-to-end experience in modern web and API delivery (React/TypeScript, Node/Java/.NET/Python); strong understanding of product backlogs, branching, code review, testing (unit/integration/e2e), and release management.
• Proven ability to map and optimize processes: UX handoff, API contract-first development, code review workflows, and test automation.
• GenAI for software engineering (practical, production-credible):
• Daily-driver experience with code-generation assistants (Copilot, GitHub Models, Azure OpenAI/ChatGPT) for scaffolding, refactoring, documentation, tests, and API stubs.
• Prompt engineering patterns for code, tests, and documentation; creation of reusable prompt templates and guardrails for consistent results.
• Experience piloting and operationalizing AI code-review bots beyond Copilot suggestions (e.g., custom rules, repo-specific patterns, refactor recommendations).
• Exposure to LLM-backed design-to-code and API-contract generation; ability to evaluate tools and fill gaps with scripts or lightweight models.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native stacks (Azure preferred): App Services/AKS, API Management, Storage, Key Vault, VNETs, Private Link, App Insights/Log Analytics.
Soft skills
• Stakeholder Management and Influence:
• Engaging product owners, dev leads and team, QA, security/architecture; negotiating trade-offs; aligning on outcomes.
• Change Management and Enablement:
• Designing and delivering role-based training, playbooks, and workshops; building and sustaining an AI Champions network.
• Communication and Facilitation:
• Clear written and verbal communication; demo-ing complex concepts simply; synthesizing quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Problem-solving and Experimentation Mindset:
• Hypothesis-driven pilots; comfort with ambiguity; rapid iteration; evidence-based decisions.
• Risk Management:
• Identifying adoption, security, and operational risks early; using incremental rollout and feature flags to mitigate.

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Deliver

No. Performance Parameter Measure
1. Continuous technical project management & delivery Adoption of new technologies, IP creation, MVP creation, Number of patents filed, Research papers created
2. Client Centricity No. of automation done, On-Time Delivery, cost of delivery, optimal resource allocation
3. Capability Building & Team Management % trained on new age skills, Team attrition %, Number of webinars conducted (internal/external)

 

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Mandatory Skills: Generative AI .

 

Experience: 5-8 Years .

 

Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.
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