Digital Incubation Tech Lead
Onsite, Multiple Locations
Job Description Summary
The Digital Incubation Tech Lead is responsible for enabling and accelerating digital innovation by designing, evolving, and operating a governed digital incubation model. This role supports incubation teams and citizen developers in rapidly building MVPs, prototypes, and production‑ready digital solutions, while ensuring architectural integrity, security, scalability, and compliance.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role—the Tech Lead actively designs, develops, tests, and implements solutions while also defining standards, frameworks, and guardrails that allow safe exploration and experimentation across the organization.
Job Description
We are the makers of possible
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.
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Role Summary
The Digital Incubation Tech Lead is responsible for enabling and accelerating digital innovation by designing, evolving, and operating a governed digital incubation model. This role supports incubation teams and citizen developers in rapidly building MVPs, prototypes, and production‑ready digital solutions, while ensuring architectural integrity, security, scalability, and compliance.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role—the Tech Lead actively designs, develops, tests, and implements solutions while also defining standards, frameworks, and guardrails that allow safe exploration and experimentation across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Digital Incubation & Framework Development
- Design, implement, and continuously evolve digital incubation frameworks that enable rapid ideation, prototyping, and MVP development.
- Define standardized pathways for moving ideas from exploration → prototype → MVP → scaled solution.
- Establish reusable patterns, templates, accelerators, and reference architectures for incubation teams and citizen developers.
- Enable experimentation while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance standards.
Hands-On Solution Development
- Actively participate in the hands-on design, development, testing, and implementation of digital solutions, MVPs, and prototypes.
- Build solutions using modern development approaches (e.g., low-code/no-code platforms, cloud-native services, APIs, automation, data and integration tools).
- Develop proof-of-concepts and technical spikes to validate feasibility, performance, and scalability.
- Conduct code reviews, solution walkthroughs, and technical validation to ensure quality and maintainability.
Governance & Guardrails for Exploration
- Define and oversee a governed exploration model that allows teams to innovate safely without creating technical debt or risk by working with respective stakeholders and teams.
- Establish guardrails for:
- Security, privacy, and data protection
- Platform and tool usage
- Integration and API standards
- Lifecycle management of incubated solutions
- Ensure clear entry and exit criteria for incubation stages, including transition to enterprise delivery or retirement.
Enablement of Incubation Teams & Citizen Developers
- Mentor and coach incubation teams and citizen developers on tools, platforms, and best practices.
- Provide technical guidance during ideation, design, and build phases.
- Partner with business, product, and design stakeholders to translate ideas into working solutions.
- Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and responsible innovation.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a technical bridge between incubation teams and respective delivery teams.
- Influence platform strategy by providing feedback based on incubation outcomes and developer experience.
- Contribute to roadmaps for digital platforms, developer tooling, and innovation capabilities.
Preferred Experience
- Background in Information Technology, Computer Science, Digital Strategy, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in digital transformation, solution architecture, or enterprise technology delivery.
- Experience with Digital platforms (Copilot Studio, Azure, Databricks, PowerBI, Power Platform etc.)
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization is preferred.
Why Join Us?
A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. It’s also a place where we help each other be great, we do what’s right, we hold each other accountable, and learn and improve every day.
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow, and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.
To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally-protected characteristics.
Required Skills
Agile Methodology, Digital Capabilities, Digital Delivery, Digital Products, Digital Transformation Initiatives, Information Technology (IT), IT GovernanceOptional Skills
Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Continuous Improvement, Digital Product Design, Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI), Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI) Desktop, monday.com Platform.
Primary Work Location
IND Bengaluru - Technology CampusAdditional Locations
POL Wroclaw - LegnickaWork Shift
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