Senior Development Engineer

Location

Hybrid – Rartian, NJ

Candidates must be able to work EST time zone.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Development Engineer – Automation & AI Platforms to design and build enterprise automation systems that enable fully repeatable, policy-driven workstation configuration and validation at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of automation engineering, DevOps platform engineering, AI-enabled development, and enterprise configuration management.

You will lead the development of two strategic engineering platforms that support workstation environments used across regulated MedTech and Life Sciences operations.

These platforms will enable deterministic workstation deployment, configuration validation, and automated compliance verification, reducing operational overhead while ensuring alignment with enterprise quality and regulatory standards.

This role is ideal for a systems-oriented engineer who enjoys building developer platforms, designing automation frameworks, and solving complex configuration management problems at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Platform Development (Lite-Touch)

Design and build a Lite-Touch Automation Platform that enables scalable workstation provisioning and configuration management.

Responsibilities include:

• Architect and develop an enterprise automation framework enabling deterministic workstation configuration deployment
• Implement modular automation workflows supporting policy-driven configuration management
• Ensure 100% repeatable configuration outcomes
• Enable input-driven configuration provisioning using structured configuration inputs
• Integrate automation capabilities with enterprise request and service management platforms
• Implement logging, traceability, and auditability across automation workflows
• Manage configuration artifacts using version-controlled configuration management practices
• Eliminate configuration drift and manual build inconsistencies through automated enforcement

Configuration Quality Verification Platform

Design and develop a Configuration Quality Verification Platform that validates workstation configurations against requested standards and enterprise quality policies.

Responsibilities include:

• Build automated verification workflows validating workstation configuration states
• Implement compliance validation aligned with enterprise quality standards
• Detect configuration drift and unauthorized configuration changes
• Verify alignment between requested and deployed configurations
• Generate automated reports and audit artifacts for regulatory compliance
• Enable engineering teams to perform automated quality assurance for workstation environments

Required Qualifications

Professional Experience

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years designing automation platforms or infrastructure automation systems
• Proven experience building enterprise automation frameworks or internal developer tools
• Strong DevOps engineering background

Programming

• Advanced PowerShell automation and scripting frameworks
• C# / .NET application and platform development

Source Control & Engineering Practices

• Git-based development workflows
• Branching strategies and pull request processes
• Code review and engineering quality practices
• Modern DevOps development methodologies

Artificial Intelligence Engineering Experience

Hands-on experience integrating AI capabilities into development workflows working with:

• Semantic Kernel
• Azure AI Foundry
• Comparable enterprise AI orchestration frameworks

Experience working with modern LLM ecosystems such as:

• Anthropic Claude models
• Gemini models
• Microsoft Copilot models

AI Development Practices:

• Prompt engineering
• AI-assisted development workflows
• Codex-driven development
• AI agent orchestration

Preferred Qualifications

• Distributed systems design
• Automation platform architecture
• Modular framework development
• Event-driven systems
• CI/CD pipeline development
• Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• REST API development
• Identity and authentication frameworks
• Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes environments
• Containerized workloads
• Observability, monitoring, and telemetry systems
• Secure development lifecycle practices
• Secrets management and role-based access control
• Experience in regulated industries such as MedTech, pharmaceuticals, or manufacturing

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to secure@hcltech.com for investigation.

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.

Pay and Benefits Pay Range Minimum: $175,000 Annually

Pay Range Maximum: $190,000 Annually