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This leader sets the strategy, architecture, and operating model for these platforms and treats them as products that let engineering and business teams build faster, more securely, and at scale.\n\nThe VP translates business needs into a coherent platform architecture and serves as the primary technical and business authority on Align's platform capabilities. Responsibilities span engineering, securing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure; building a trusted, well-governed data foundation; delivering shared AI and machine learning capabilities with responsible AI guardrails; and providing secure identity and API services for workforce, customer, and partner ecosystems. The role ensures all platforms meet regulatory and compliance requirements, including SOX, PCI DSS, and applicable privacy regulations.\nThis leader builds and scales high-performing engineering teams and partners closely with R&D, product, security, and business stakeholders. Strong technical depth, influential leadership, and the ability to drive change in a complex, fast-moving enterprise environment are essential.\nThe role reports to the Chief Digital Officer and is located in San Jose, CA, or Raleigh, NC.\nRole expectations\n Platform Strategy and Leadership\nDefine and own the multi-year vision, strategy, and roadmap for Align’s enterprise platforms (Data, AI, Cloud, API, and Identity), making sure they directly enable the company’s digital product and business strategy.\nBuild, lead, and scale high-performing platform engineering organizations. Attract and develop top talent, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.\nOperate the platforms as products, with clear internal customers, service levels, adoption metrics, and feedback loops, so product and engineering teams can build faster and more reliably.\nPartner with the Chief Digital Officer, business unit leaders, R&D, product, security, and infrastructure teams to translate business needs into platform capabilities and build consensus on architecture and investment priorities.\nOwn platform budgets, vendor strategy, and build-versus-buy decisions. Lead technology evaluations, RFI/RFP processes, proofs of concept, and vendor negotiations.\nEstablish architecture standards, reference patterns, and governance that drive modular, reusable, and well-abstracted solutions across the product and enterprise portfolio.\n Data Platform\nLead the architecture, engineering, and operation of the enterprise data platform, including data lake/lakehouse, warehousing, streaming, and integration capabilities.\nDeliver scalable, reliable data pipelines and event-driven data flows that give analytics, AI, and operational systems trusted, timely data.\nImplement data governance, quality, lineage, cataloging, and master data practices that make data discoverable, accurate, and compliant.\nEnsure appropriate protection of sensitive and regulated data, including patient and customer data, in line with privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).\n AI Platform\nDefine and execute the enterprise AI platform strategy, providing shared infrastructure, tooling, and services that let teams build, deploy, and scale AI and machine learning solutions safely and efficiently.\nLead integration with foundation model providers and AI platforms (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS), including model access, orchestration, retrieval, agent frameworks, and evaluation capabilities.\nEstablish MLOps and LLMOps practices for model training, deployment, monitoring, versioning, and cost management.\nImplement responsible AI guardrails, including security, privacy, bias, and safety controls, in partnership with legal, compliance, and security.\nContinuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and drive adoption of those that deliver measurable business value.\n Cloud Platform\nOwn the architecture, engineering, security, and optimization of Align’s cloud and hybrid infrastructure, with AWS as the primary cloud environment.\nDeliver self-service infrastructure, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and internal developer platform capabilities that improve release velocity, developer productivity, and system stability.\nDrive the adoption of DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability best practices across cloud and on-premises environments.\nLead re-platforming and modernization of legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.\nManage cloud cost, performance, resilience, and disaster recovery through FinOps practices and SRE disciplines.\nPartner with R&D to manage and integrate engineering tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, GitHub), driving efficient adoption across the engineering organization.\n Identity and API Platform\nLead the Identity and Access Management strategy for workforce, customer, and partner identities, including SSO, MFA, privileged access, and lifecycle management, using standards such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML.\nAdvance zero-trust security principles across applications, endpoints, and infrastructure.\nBuild and scale the enterprise API platform, including API gateway, management, developer portal, and lifecycle governance, so internal teams and external partners can integrate securely and consistently.\nDrive API-first and event-driven integration patterns (e.g., Kafka) that decouple systems and accelerate the delivery of new digital products.\nDefine API design standards, versioning, security, and monitoring practices across the enterprise.\nSecurity, Compliance, and Operational Excellence\nEnsure all platforms meet regulatory and compliance requirements, including SOX and PCI DSS, and maintain audit readiness.\nEmbed secure-by-design principles and secure code practices throughout platform engineering.\nDefine and report on platform KPIs, including availability, performance, adoption, developer experience, and cost efficiency.\nMaintain current documentation of platform architecture, integrations, and dependencies across the enterprise portfolio.\nAdditional responsibilities:\nOther duties may be assigned\nWhat we're looking for\nLeadership and Experience\n10 or more years of professional experience in large-scale, distributed technology environments, including at least 8-10 years in enterprise or platform architecture.\nProven senior leadership experience building and managing multi-disciplinary platform organizations spanning data, AI, cloud, and/or identity and API engineering.\nDemonstrated success operating internal platforms as products, with measurable improvements in developer productivity, reliability, adoption, and cost efficiency.\nProven track record re-platforming large legacy systems to modern, cloud-native architectures.\nExperience managing significant budgets, vendor relationships, and technology selection processes, including RFI/RFP, proofs of concept, and quantitative and qualitative evaluation.\nData Platform\nDeep experience with modern data architectures, including data lakes/lakehouses, warehousing, streaming, and data integration.\nStrong understanding of data governance, quality, lineage, cataloging, and the protection of sensitive and regulated data.\n AI Platform\nStrong technical background in AI and machine learning, with hands-on experience building or integrating AI platforms, models, and AI-driven services or agents.\nFamiliarity with foundation model providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS), MLOps/LLMOps practices, and model evaluation and monitoring.\nCommitment to responsible and ethical AI, including safety, privacy, and governance controls.\n Cloud Platform\nExtensive experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud provider, including architecture, security, cost optimization, and resilience.\nHands-on experience with microservices and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes), distributed caching, and load balancing.\nExperience implementing DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and SRE practices at scale.\n Identity and API Platform\nStrong expertise in Identity and Access Management, including SSO, MFA, privileged access, and zero-trust architectures, with authentication standards such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML.\nDeep understanding of API ecosystems, API management and governance, and partner integration dynamics.\nValidated experience with SOA, design patterns, web services standards (HTTP, REST, JSON, XML, SOAP), and event-driven architecture using Kafka or similar technologies.\nSecurity and Compliance\nExperience delivering platforms in regulated environments, with working knowledge of SOX, PCI DSS, and privacy regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR.\nStrong grounding in secure code development and security-by-design principles.\n Communication and Influence\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present effectively to executives, technologists, business stakeholders, and IT teams.\nStrong interpersonal and influencing skills, with a track record of building consensus and collaboration across functions.\nAbility to lead cross-functional initiatives involving product, engineering, security, partnerships, and business units.\nEDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.\n8-10 years of enterprise architecture experience.\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT\n The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.\nReasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nPhysical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to handle objects and tools; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move light to moderate weight. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.\nWork Environment: The noise level and temperature in the work environment are usually moderate.\nWork Schedule / Hours: Regular business hours.\nPay Transparency\nIf provided, base salary or wage rate ranges are the range in which Align reasonably expects to set a candidate’s pay for the posted position. Actual placement depends on the individual skills and experience level of a candidate plus the total compensation and equity across team members. For other locations outside of the primary location, the base salary range will be adjusted geographically.\n\nFor Field Sales roles, the salary listed is the base pay only and does not include the applicable incentive compensation plan. A cost of living adjustment may be added to base pay for higher cost areas in the U.S.\n\nOur internship hourly rates are a standard pay determined based on the position and your location, year in school, degree, and experience.\nGeneral Description of All Benefits\nWe are pleased to provide a general description of the benefits Align offers to full-time employees in this position.\n\nFamily Benefits. Align offers employees and their eligible dependents medical (with a Health Savings Account option for some plan offerings), dental, and vision in accordance with those plans. Align also offers to employees:\nDiscounts on Invisalign and Vivera to employees and their eligible dependents after 90 days of employment\nBack-up Child/Elder Care and access to a caregiving concierge\nFamily Forming Benefits - Available to Employees, and their spouse or domestic partner, covered under one of Align’s health plans\nBreast Milk Delivery and Lactation Support Services\nEmployee Assistance Program\nHinge Health Virtual Physical Therapy - Available to all employees and eligible dependents (age 18+) enrolled in an Align medical Plan\nEmployee benefits. 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