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For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer - working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.\nEvery member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.\nWe believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.\nJob Description\nAs part of our enterprise AI strategy to speed life-changing therapies to patients, we are seeking a Platform Delivery Lead to lead the technical development and delivery of the foundational Data and AI platform products that power AI/ML solutions across the enterprise. In this role, you will bridge the needs of platform consumers and use case teams with technical execution, and manage platform engineering teams composed of internal resources and key external partners. You will drive technical excellence in our shared platform capabilities through hands-on architecture decisions, engineering quality standards and modern data and AI engineering practices, delivering reliable, secure, and scalable platform services from concept to scaled release.\nThis position will report to the Associate Director, Data & AI Platform and is based in Raleigh, NC.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn end-to-end delivery including timeline and technical quality of Data and AI platform products and capabilities, from ideation through production and ongoing operations\n\nApply a product-centric approach with clear ownership, roadmaps, service-level objectives, and platform adoption metrics\n\nOversee the development of scalable, reusable platform capabilities built on AWS and Databricks, exposed as self-service products to use case and tenant teams\n\nDrive AI services enablement across the platform, delivering shared capabilities (model access, RAG and retrieval services, evaluation, guardrails, and orchestration) that let teams build and deploy AI solutions faster\n\nChampion the creation of reusable assets and accelerators - agent templates, MCP tools and servers, prompt and evaluation libraries, and reference patterns - that accelerate the development and adoption of AI agents across the enterprise\n\nLead hybrid technical delivery teams of platform and data/AI engineers, drawing on technical experts within and beyond the team\n\nManage sprint planning, backlog prioritization and release schedules, extending into continuous improvement as both platform needs and the technology landscape evolve\n\nFacilitate technical problem-solving across data engineering, AI/ML and agentic enablement, governance, and platform reliability domains\n\nEnsure platform capabilities integrate cleanly with the broader data and AI ecosystem and provide reusable components and reference patterns (ingestion frameworks, feature/serving infrastructure, shared services)\n\nShape technical standards for platform architecture, data models, pipeline patterns, and automation workflows that consuming teams build upon\n\nMaintain technical documentation, architecture references, and operational runbooks for platform services and data pipelines\n\nTrack delivery and platform health metrics: reliability and availability targets, platform adoption, time-to-onboard, and operational efficiency\n\nManage vendor relationships and outsourced delivery with co-source providers\n\nMonitor platform performance and drive continuous improvement toward quantifiable targets, including cost efficiency, resilience, and engineering excellence\n\nKey Skills & Experiences\nBachelor's or higher degree in data or computer science, and 8+ years of relevant experience (BA/BS) / 6+ years relevant experience (MA/MS/MBA)\n\nSignificant experience leading technical delivery in an agile environment. Fluent with Agile/Scrum methodology and mindsets\n\nExperience as a lead data engineer, platform engineer, or solution architect. Hands-on, full-stack experience with platform operations / continuous improvement in addition to design and implementation preferred\n\nStrong technical understanding of AWS data and AI services (e.g., S3, EKS, Lake Formation, Bedrock) and the Databricks platform (e.g., Unity Catalog, Lakeflow/Delta Live Tables, model serving, databricks apps), including how these are assembled into enterprise-grade data and AI platforms\n\nExperience building and operating shared, multi-tenant platform capabilities and self-service developer experiences\n\nExperience working with large (15+) dispersed development teams\n\nProduct-centric mindset\n\nStrong understanding of modern data and AI architectures, including data lakehouse, MLOps/LLMOps, API / Event driven architectures and agentic/AI service patterns\n\nFamiliarity with platform governance, security, and compliance considerations in a regulated environment preferred\n\nStrong team leadership skills; able to lead and influence without authority. Excellent communications and stakeholder management skills.\n\nThe salary range for this position is: $146,200.00 - $189,200.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.For additional benefits information, visit:\nhttps://www.gilead.com/careers/compensation-benefits-and-wellbeing\n* Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.\nFor jobs in the United States:\nGilead Sciences Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment comprised of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, geneticinformation or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact  for assistance.\nFor more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the 'Know Your Rights' poster.\nNOTICE: EMPLOYEE POLYGRAPH PROTECTION ACT\nYOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT\nGilead Sciences will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, (c) consistent with the legal duty to furnish information; or (d) otherwise protected by law.\nOur environment respects individual differences and recognizes each employee as an integral member of our company. Our workforce reflects these values and celebrates the individuals who make up our growing team.\nGilead provides a work environment free of harassment and prohibited conduct. 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