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With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.\nSummary of Role:\nGlobalFoundries is scaling the next generation of enterprise AI and agentic workflows through the CIO FDE Office. The Director leads a blended team of internal engineers, NCG resources, and contractor FDEs (partners) to incubate, industrialize, and operationalize AI-powered solutions across HR, IT, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and other business domains. This is a supervisory role that combines people leadership, portfolio and demand management, architecture direction, executive engagement, and financial stewardship of the AI platform.\nThe Director sets the operating model and standards for a small, high-impact organization, ensures solutions ship with the right security, observability, governance, and cost controls, and serves as the CIO's trusted partner for translating enterprise AI strategy into delivered, measurable value. Roughly 70% of the role is strategy, leadership, and stakeholder engagement & management; ~30% is retained technical fluency and architecture judgment.\nEssential Responsibilities:\n1. Team Leadership & Talent Development\nLead, coach, and develop the team 5 direct reports plus 5 NCG resources; build a durable talent pipeline and career paths within the pod. \nManage a blended workforce of internal GF FDE engineers and contractor resources; scale capacity up and down as demand requires. \nSet the CIO FDE Office operating model, engineering standards, roles/responsibilities, and delivery methodology. \nOwn staffing plans, investment proposals, and capability-building; foster a culture of ownership, safety, and measurable outcomes. \n2. Portfolio, Intake Governance & Delivery\nOwn the CIO FDE portfolio - prioritize use cases, sequence delivery, and align capacity to the highest-value opportunities. \nRun intake governance for new technology requests: apply formal intake templates and screening questions to ensure strategic alignment and reusable patterns. \nDrive use cases from incubation to production without surprises in risk, security, or cost; hold go/no-go and production-readiness gates. \nRepresent solutions at Design Review Board (DRB) and enterprise architecture reviews. \n3. Enterprise AI & Agentic Platform Strategy\nSet technical direction for enterprise AI agents built across various enterprise applications such as ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, Supply Chain, HR, and IT Operations. \nGuide architecture for MCP integrations, APIs, multi-agent orchestration, cloud (AWS / ADP BYOC), identity (Entra ID, OBO, token brokering), and observability. \nChampion reusable components, reference implementations, and standards that reduce delivery time for future use cases. \nRetain enough hands-on depth to pressure-test designs, make credible build-vs-buy decisions, and unblock the team on hard technical calls. \n4. Cost, Budget & AI Tokenomics Stewardship\nOwn budget accountability for the CIO FDE Office - platform licensing, SOWs/contracts (e.g., Redpanda ADP), contractor spend, and cloud/AI consumption. \nBuild and maintain AI tokenomics visibility: showback/chargeback models across Copilot, Cowork, AWS Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, and other GenAI tools, with dashboards for leadership. \nForecast AI/cloud consumption, model ROI and total cost of ownership, and drive cost transparency and spend governance for business units. \nBalance speed of incubation with disciplined cost control; make model, harness, and local-LLM trade-off decisions that optimize value per dollar. \n5. Executive & Business Engagement\nServe as the CIO's delivery partner and a trusted advisor to C-suite and business unit leaders (CEO/XT, CHRO,PO manufacturing and functional leadership). \nTranslate business strategy into an agentic roadmap; run workshops to identify automation opportunities and secure sponsorship. \nCommunicate status, decisions, risks, and value in concise, executive-level briefings, decision memos, and steering forums. \nManage vendor and partner relationships, negotiate SOWs, and align external delivery to GF priorities and standards. \n6. Production Readiness, Risk & Operations\nEnsure deployed agents meet enterprise bars for security, identity, data quality, observability, and production support. \nOversee UAT, defect tracking, go/no-go criteria, and operational runbooks for agents entering production. \nPartner with platform, cloud, network, and security teams on scalability, resilience, and compliance (including SOX-relevant systems where applicable). \nInstitutionalize telemetry and cost-aware operating practices across the agent lifecycle. \nOther Responsibilities:\nPerform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (advanced degree a plus). \n12+ years of technology experience, including 5+ years leading engineering, delivery, or platform teams. \nProven people-leadership track record: hiring, coaching, and scaling blended internal/contractor teams and early-career talent. \nDemonstrated ownership of budgets, licensing/SOWs, and technology cost governance. \nStrong architecture fluency across APIs, enterprise integration, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and modern application development. \nExperience partnering with senior business and C-suite stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience delivering enterprise AI agents, MCP servers, LLM platforms, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, LangGraph, CrewAI, or Redpanda ADP. \nFamiliarity with AI tokenomics, showback/chargeback, and cloud FinOps for GenAI workloads. \nExperience with AWS, Azure and BYOC solutions. Hands on experience with cloud solutions preferred. \nIntegration experience with ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, or Microsoft Graph APIs. \nExperience with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, APQC) and EA tooling (LeanIX, Bizzdesign). \nComfortable leading in ambiguous, fast-moving incubation environments where requirements evolve through prototyping. \nSuccess Measures - First 12 Months\nMature a durable CIO FDE operating model with clear roles, standards, and a healthy talent pipeline\nDeliver production-ready agentic solutions for priority use cases across multiple business domains with no surprises in risk, security, or cost.\nEstablish AI tokenomics transparency - showback/chargeback dashboards and forecasts adopted by leadership and business units.\nReduce delivery time for new use cases through reusable MCPs, API assets, and reference patterns.\nEarn trusted-advisor status with the CIO and C-suite, with a prioritized, sponsored agentic roadmap in flight.\nExpected Salary Range\n$191,000.00 - $332,000.00The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at  let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.\nAn offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.\nGlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. 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