Director, Platform Software Engineering

About the role

Leads the AI Services platform group; develops strategies and plans that standardize building AI Platform service , runtimes, APIs, and SDKs across several teams across US and IDC for AI Cloud Service and Robotics for Lab Automation.  Accountable for group results, executive leadership  and governance adherence; makes operational decisions ensuring compatibility, security, and performance. Sponsors cross-group innovation in resilience, capacity modeling, and interoperability. Communicates with executive leadership on platform health, risk, and adoption on daily basis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

* Define platform strategy for a group, aligning runtimes, SDKs, and integration frameworks to interoperable, multi-tenant standards.

* Govern cross-group compatibility and security controls with SRE/security partners; approve high-risk migrations and deprecations.

* Own group-wide resilience and capacity objectives; institutionalize rollout, canary, and rollback patterns across services.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

* Defines key elements for leads and/or teams to design multiple software solutions and identify and analyze requirements to ensure alignment with business and organizational goals.

* Applies broad understanding of other areas within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents to clarify software design and code.

* Leads design and specification reviews to drive improvements across multiple projects/programs.

* Utilizes conceptual thinking to direct leads and/or teams for conducting debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues.

* Directs leads and/or teams to implement software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.

* Drives the optimization of design and development practices to improve performance across products and domains, ensuring adherence to organizational goals in execution of business priorities.

* Directs teams in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

* Directs teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

* Directs teams to design and develop software, systems, and services.

* Coaches managers to provide technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices.

* Utilizes conceptual thinking to direct teams in conducting periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.