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The incumbent will own the shared AI and data foundations that enable scalable, secure, and compliant analytics and AI capabilities across the organization, and ensure that platform capabilities, governance enforcement, and architecture standards are consistently applied to support business-driven data delivery and AI initiatives. This role is a key member of IT leadership and serves as the enterprise point of accountability for AI and data platform execution. WHAT WILL YOU DO: Leadership\nBuilds and leads a high-performing team of platform engineers, architects, AI engineers, and governance specialists.\nDevelops workforce capabilities in AI and data platform engineering.\nPartners with IT leadership on organizational strategy and staffing growth.\nDirects department staff, directly and through team leaders, including hiring, directing, monitoring, evaluating, and motivating staff.\nEstablishes clear career paths and role specialization within AI and data platform domains.\nProvides direction, monitors team work loads and work processes, and takes corrective actions as needed to ensure that all operations are covered, and productivity, customer service, and quality goals are met.\nEnsures compliance with applicable federal, state, agency, and department policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.\nAssesses training needs of team members and arranges for or provides training, coaching, and technical assistance. Enterprise Enablement Adoption\nServes as the enabling technology partner for Data Delivery and LOB teams.\nProvides “paved roads” for AI and data delivery teams.\nSupports developer experience, onboarding, and platform adoption.\nReduces duplication and tool sprawl across the enterprise.\nPartners closely with Enterprise Technology Services to achieve enablement goals. Enterprise AI Data Platform Strategy, Architecture, and Governance\nDefines and execute the strategy for enterprise AI and data platforms (e.g., Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI services).\nOversees platform architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management.\nEnsures scalability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization (FinOps).\nEstablishes and maintains enterprise AI and data platform architecture standards.\nEnsures the platform provides the infrastructure and tooling to support AI-ready data patterns (e.g., semantic layers, RAG, data integration patterns).\nDrive consistency in interoperability and platform alignment.\nOwns platform architecture across the AI and data estate; sets architectural direction for how AI capabilities are built, deployed, and governed on shared infrastructure.\nOwns enterprise data governance tooling and enforcement mechanisms, including data catalog (Purview or equivalent), data classification and sensitivity labeling, access controls and policy enforcement.\nEnsure governance is implemented through platform capabilities, not manual processes.\nPartner with enterprise governance bodies to align policy with technical enforcement. Platform Engineering, Operations, and Enablement\nLeads platform operations including monitoring, incident management, and reliability.\nOwns environment strategy (sandbox, development, testing, production).\nEstablishes DevOps practices including CI/CD, version control, and deployment standards.\nEnsures secure, compliant, and auditable platform usage.\nLeads development of reusable AI capabilities (e.g., agents, copilots, orchestration frameworks).\nSupports AI experimentation, R D, and transition to production-ready capabilities.\nDelivers shared services and patterns that enable downstream delivery teams. 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