Job Summary

The Director, Data & AI Platform Engineering leads the engineering strategy, development, delivery, and operational excellence of the enterprise Data & AI Platform. This role combines enterprise technology leadership with the development of high-performing engineering teams spanning data engineering, software engineering, AI/ML platform engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, DataOps, MLOps, and LLMOps.

Working closely with Product, Architecture, Governance, Security, Risk, Enterprise Delivery, Analytics & BI, and AI Product teams, the Director delivers a governed, reusable, self-service platform foundation. This leader is responsible for engineering execution across Foundational Data & AI Products, Integration & Runtime, and the Shared Substrate, with capabilities designed to be defined once, governed once, and consumed by many.

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership and Team Development

Lead and develop multidisciplinary engineering teams while building a culture of ownership, collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Coach engineering managers, technical leads, architects, and senior engineers; build succession plans and strengthen leadership capacity.
• Lead workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, capability development, and talent retention.
• Establish clear accountability and decision-making across distributed teams and engineering disciplines.

Platform Engineering Strategy and Delivery

Set and execute the engineering strategy for the shared Data & AI Platform in partnership with platform product leadership and architecture.

• Deliver platform-managed capabilities across Foundational Data & AI Products, Integration & Runtime, and Shared Substrate.
• Guide engineering investment in canonical data products, the governed context foundation, model and tool gateways, registries, agent runtime, APIs, lakehouse, catalog, compute, storage, and golden-path automation.
• Balance near-term delivery with platform sustainability, reuse, scalability, and the thin-platform boundary.

Operational Excellence and Governance

Ensure platform services are reliable, secure, observable, supportable, and operated to published service objectives.

• Establish engineering standards for architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, observability, incident response, resilience, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Governance, Security, Risk, and Architecture so policy is technically enforced while architecture pattern-setting remains distinct from policy ownership.
• Use delivery, reliability, quality, contract-conformance, adoption, and consumer-feedback measures to drive continuous improvement.

Enterprise Partnership and Execution

Build strong partnerships across business, data, AI, product, architecture, governance, and enterprise technology organizations.

• Communicate engineering priorities, delivery progress, operational health, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to senior stakeholders.
• Enable self-service golden paths so consumers can build compliant solutions without embedding or waiting on the platform team.
• Manage capacity, vendors, dependencies, and organizational scaling in alignment with the platform roadmap.

Skills and Background You'll Need

Education: A Bachelor's degree is required.

Experience: Minimum 8 - 10 years' experience within IT and 3+ years' experience managing IT employees

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale data, technology, platform, product, or analytics organizations and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong strategic planning, prioritization, communication, stakeholder partnership, and organizational change leadership skills.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment with governance, security, privacy, audit, risk, and access-control expectations.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Driving Success: Demonstrates energy and persistence when tackling complex challenges and views difficult problems as opportunities to create value.
• Winning Together: Builds trust and strong working relationships across teams, values diverse perspectives, and fosters collaboration to achieve shared objectives.
• Strategic Visioning: Considers future scenarios, opportunities, and risks to develop thoughtful recommendations that align with the company's long-term strategic objectives.

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• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
• An annual incentive bonus plan
• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually - PTO increases with tenure
• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement
• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance
• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools

In addition to the competitive salary range below, our employee-focused benefits support work-life balance. Learn more about working at The Standard.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

The actual compensation for this role will be based on a combination of education and experience, knowledge and skills, position budget, internal equity, and market data.

Salary Range:
$147,750.00 - $280,750.00

Positions will be posted for at least 5 days from original posting date.