Sr Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform

In this role you will lead the engineering organization responsible for shared platform capabilities that enable trusted data services and production-grade AI-driven workflows. You will partner with Platform Product Management to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure platforms adopted across product domains, driving high-quality execution. Your work will focus on ingestion, integration, governance, AI workflow guardrails, and enterprise security, with a emphasis on measurable impact and cross-functional collaboration. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape platforms that empower innovators in a regulated space.

• healthy work/life balance
• wellbeing initiatives
• shared parental leave
• study assistance
• sabbaticals
• flexible hours

• Lead delivery of shared platform services and data capabilities used by multiple product domains
• Translate product requirements into scalable designs and delivery plans
• Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing, and risk assessments for platform roadmap decisions
• Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities to improve data trust and reuse
• Implement canonical data contracts and APIs with versioning and backward compatibility
• Implement agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product standards, including traceability and state management
• Establish production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrails for safe AI workflows
• Implement security controls, access governance, encryption, and audit requirements with InfoSec and ensure SDLC and vulnerability management compliance

• 12+ years leading platform engineering with production operations accountability
• Proven success with platforms adopted by multiple product teams, including reliability and incident management
• Strong hands-on leadership in distributed systems and platform engineering
• Deep experience with data platform engineering at scale (ingestion, integration, data quality, metadata and lineage, secure access)
• Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production (evaluation, monitoring, observability, auditability, guardrails)
• Ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes
• Proven ability to hire and develop high-performing engineering teams including AI platform engineers
• Experience building AI workflow platforms or shared AI services; familiarity with regulated/high-trust systems advantageous

• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• strategic thinking
• distributed systems
• platform engineering
• data platform engineering at scale