Gen AI Engineering Senior Director

The Gen AI Engineering Senior Director leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI platforms, including GenAI, machine learning, and agentic AI capabilities. This role is responsible for building and scaling secure, resilient, and high-performing platforms that enable enterprise-wide AI adoption. The Director oversees multiple engineering teams and leaders, ensuring strong execution, operational discipline, and alignment with enterprise standards for risk, compliance, and responsible AI. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead the vision, architecture, and roadmap for enterprise AI platforms, including GenAI, LLM integration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI-driven search. 

• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams; develop engineering managers and senior engineers while establishing standards, guardrails, and governance models. 

• Own cloud-native platform design and delivery across Azure and AWS, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization. 

• Oversee MLOps and production operations, including CI/CD pipelines, model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle governance. 

• Ensure alignment with enterprise requirements for security, data privacy, compliance, and Responsible AI practices. 

• Drive cross-functional collaboration with product, risk, security, and business stakeholders to enable secure and scalable AI adoption. 

Operational Leadership & Execution Discipline 

• Maintain strong awareness of team delivery, technical issues, and platform risks; step in to review designs, code, and architectural decisions as needed. 

• Ensure Agile practices are consistently followed, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery tracking. 

• Enforce operational rigor across teams, including keeping Jira artifacts current, transparent, and aligned to priorities. 

• Provide ongoing feedback on team performance, resource allocation, and organizational effectiveness to optimize delivery outcomes. 

• Manage core people leadership responsibilities, including addressing HR-related matters, supporting employee development, and ensuring team engagement. 

• Ensure continuity of delivery through appropriate backup coverage, resource planning, and support during team member absences. 

• Oversee administrative responsibilities such as time tracking and compliance with enterprise processes (e.g., timesheets, reporting). 

• Continuously identify and drive improvements to increase team velocity, reduce friction, and accelerate platform delivery. 

Basic Qualifications  
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience