{"id":1539994,"url":"https://alion.io/job/fis-director-software-engineering-ai-engineering-platform","title":"Director, Software Engineering (AI Engineering Platform)","company":{"id":4808,"name":"FIS","domain":"fisglobal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/fis","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":87,"open_postings":50,"ghost_share":0.04,"stale_share":0.58,"repost_share":0.1,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":171670,"max":291830,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":291830},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T20:54:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T20:54:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Job Description\nROLE SUMMARY\nThe Director of Software Engineering owns the AI Engineering Platform, one of the core engineering domains within Platform Engineering. This leader is accountable for the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and operational health of the platform capabilities that enable AI/ML and agentic workloads to be built, deployed, and run reliably across the enterprise. They lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team, set technical direction in partnership with Architecture, and drive adoption and outcomes in partnership with the shared Delivery and Activation & Operations functions.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role that balances people leadership, technical judgment, and cross-organizational influence - including managing critical dependencies on the Agentic Platform, Data Platform, and Infrastructure teams that sit outside this org.\nWHAT YOU WILL OWN\nThe AI Engineering Platform end to end: its vision and multi-quarter roadmap, the engineering team that builds it, the services and tooling it exposes to internal customers, and the reliability, cost, and adoption metrics that define its success. You are the single accountable owner for this domain.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nStrategy & Roadmap. Define and continuously evolve the AI Engineering Platform strategy in alignment with Platform Engineering's goals. Translate ambiguous business and product needs into a clear, prioritized engineering roadmap and communicate it to leadership, peers, and stakeholders.\nTechnical Leadership. Set technical direction for the domain in close partnership with the Architecture function (Cross-Platform, Governance, Capability Definition, Integration). Ensure sound design, engineering quality, security, and scalability across the platform. Make and defend build-vs-buy and vendor decisions.\nDelivery & Execution. Partner with the shared Delivery function (Execution, Dependencies, Escalations, Intake, Roadmaps & Programs) to deliver commitments predictably. Manage cross-team dependencies - especially the external Agentic Platform, Data Platform, and Infrastructure teams - and proactively resolve blockers and escalations.\nAdoption & Operations. Work with Activation & Operations (Adoption, Embedded Engineering, Platform Support, Success, Metrics) to drive platform adoption, support internal customers, and improve the developer experience. Own the operational health, reliability, and cost-efficiency of the platform.\nPeople Leadership. Build, lead, coach, and grow a high-performing, multi-disciplinary engineering team. Hire and retain top talent, set clear expectations and career growth paths, and foster an inclusive, accountable, high-trust culture.\nStakeholder Management. Serve as the primary point of contact for the AI Engineering domain across Platform Engineering and with partner organizations. Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and executive audiences.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nRequired\nProven experience leading software engineering teams at a manager-of-managers or senior manager/director level, ideally within platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling organizations.\nStrong technical background in software engineering, with the ability to set architectural direction and earn the trust of senior engineers.\nDemonstrated ownership of a platform, product, or domain end to end - strategy through operations.\nExperience delivering AI/ML, data, or agentic platform capabilities, or closely adjacent large-scale distributed systems.\nTrack record of managing complex cross-team dependencies and driving outcomes through influence rather than authority.\nExcellent communication skills with technical and executive stakeholders.\nPreferred\nExperience building internal platforms or developer-experience products with measurable adoption goals.\nFamiliarity with MLOps, model serving, LLM/agent infrastructure, or AI developer tooling.\nExperience partnering with architecture and governance functions in a matrixed organization.\nFIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $171,670.00 - $291,830.00 and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position based on the posted role, level, and location. Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Privacy Statement\nFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.\nEEOC Statement\nFIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here\nFor positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.\nSourcing Model\nRecruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6262,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Financial Software & Embedded Finance","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T20:54:15Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:8","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":291830,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/fis-director-software-engineering-ai-engineering-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/fis-director-software-engineering-ai-engineering-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T21:15:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3870,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1130,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}