Technical Lead
India
Job Description
Technical Lead
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Job Summary

Veeva Platform AI Activation Engineer

•    Demonstrated, evidenced delivery of AI-enabled tools or ways of working that produced a measurable efficiency gain — candidates must be able to walk through at least one such initiative end to end: the problem, what was built or changed, who adopted it, and the benefit realised. This is the primary screening criterion and outweighs total years of experience.
•    Solid software engineering foundation with strong hands-on Python — able to build, ship and maintain a real internal application, not only notebooks or prototypes.
•    Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications: API integration, prompt design and iteration, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and vector/semantic search, chunking strategies, evaluation of output quality, and controlling cost/latency.
•    Practical experience with data-centric application work: relational data (SQL or equivalent), structured file ingestion and parsing (Excel/CSV/XML/JSON), data modelling and validation.
•    Experience with a Python web/data application framework (Streamlit, Dash, FastAPI or equivalent) and standard engineering discipline: Git/GitHub, code review, environment management, deployment to a managed hosting platform.
•    Demonstrated ability to work alongside non-AI practitioners and change how they work — observing an existing process, identifying where AI genuinely helps, coaching individuals, and getting real adoption rather than delivering a demo.
•    Awareness of AI risk and governance in an enterprise setting: data privacy and confidentiality, hallucination and output-verification risk, human oversight, model/prompt change control, and Responsible AI principles.
•    Willingness and ability to work within a regulated (GxP/validated) environment — comfortable with documentation, traceability and change control as a normal cost of delivery rather than an obstacle.
•    Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery (Jira-based backlog, sprint-level delivery).
•    Strong English communication skills — this role interfaces directly with internal Leads, platform practitioners and business stakeholders, and must explain AI capability and its limits in plain language.
•    REQUIRED - Veeva Vault literacy, or demonstrated ability to reach it within the first 8 weeks: the object and metadata model, configuration exports and reports, VQL, and the Vault REST API. The role will be cross-trained in Veeva by the CoE. This literacy is needed to build AI over Vault configuration and documentation, and to assess Veeva-native AI features credibly - it is NOT intended to make this role a source of configuration or integration delivery capacity.

Key Responsibilities

Veeva Platform AI Activation Engineer

•    Demonstrated, evidenced delivery of AI-enabled tools or ways of working that produced a measurable efficiency gain — candidates must be able to walk through at least one such initiative end to end: the problem, what was built or changed, who adopted it, and the benefit realised. This is the primary screening criterion and outweighs total years of experience.
•    Solid software engineering foundation with strong hands-on Python — able to build, ship and maintain a real internal application, not only notebooks or prototypes.
•    Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications: API integration, prompt design and iteration, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and vector/semantic search, chunking strategies, evaluation of output quality, and controlling cost/latency.
•    Practical experience with data-centric application work: relational data (SQL or equivalent), structured file ingestion and parsing (Excel/CSV/XML/JSON), data modelling and validation.
•    Experience with a Python web/data application framework (Streamlit, Dash, FastAPI or equivalent) and standard engineering discipline: Git/GitHub, code review, environment management, deployment to a managed hosting platform.
•    Demonstrated ability to work alongside non-AI practitioners and change how they work — observing an existing process, identifying where AI genuinely helps, coaching individuals, and getting real adoption rather than delivering a demo.
•    Awareness of AI risk and governance in an enterprise setting: data privacy and confidentiality, hallucination and output-verification risk, human oversight, model/prompt change control, and Responsible AI principles.
•    Willingness and ability to work within a regulated (GxP/validated) environment — comfortable with documentation, traceability and change control as a normal cost of delivery rather than an obstacle.
•    Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery (Jira-based backlog, sprint-level delivery).
•    Strong English communication skills — this role interfaces directly with internal Leads, platform practitioners and business stakeholders, and must explain AI capability and its limits in plain language.
•    REQUIRED - Veeva Vault literacy, or demonstrated ability to reach it within the first 8 weeks: the object and metadata model, configuration exports and reports, VQL, and the Vault REST API. The role will be cross-trained in Veeva by the CoE. This literacy is needed to build AI over Vault configuration and documentation, and to assess Veeva-native AI features credibly - it is NOT intended to make this role a source of configuration or integration delivery capacity.

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Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.