Director, AI Platform Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of a generative AI platform, ensuring optimal integration with enterprise systems and standards.
• Act as a hands-on developer and architect, creating a robust and scalable solution tailored to support AI-driven applications.
• Collaborate closely with a small team of talented engineers to innovate and extend platform capabilities.
• Develop cloud service architectures that are specifically optimized for enterprise AI consumption, leveraging the latest Azure and AWS offerings.
• Foster customer value by incorporating the latest Generative AI technologies and methodologies.
• Drive the strategic development of the platform's architecture, ensuring it adheres to cost-effective and scalable cloud practices, while identifying impactful new features and trends.
• Liaise with AI specialists from across the company to understand requirements for and incorporate features in a rapidly evolving environment, ensuring seamless functionality and user experience.
• Provide technical leadership and insight to stakeholders and team members, aligning the platform development with business goals and technology trends.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Demonstrate technical leadership and hands-on expertise in generative AI technologies and cloud architecture.
• Build and maintain a team culture that is committed to ownership, innovation, quality, and rapid prototyping of new ideas.
• Foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Build credibility and trust as a representative of the team and of the company.

Critical Deliverables

• Architect and implement an efficient, effective, and safe generative AI platform that meets the needs of our business.
• Ensure that the platform aligns with well-architected framework principles and leverages modern cloud services.
• Identification and delivery of the most impactful AI tools and methodologies through a philosophy of customer obsession.
• Maintain documentation and architecture blueprints that guide the platform strategy and operational runbooks.

Impact

• Propel business innovation by providing access to state-of-the-art generative AI capabilities via the platform.
• Generative AI will enhance the company's competitive edge in the market through easy access to capabilities that can improve customer interactions, improve operational efficiency, and create new products.

Key Areas of Focus

• Platform Development: Design and implement the AI platform that supports advanced generative AI concepts and methodologies.
• Cloud Optimization: Utilize cloud resources effectively to maximize speed of delivery and minimize custom development where practical.
• Agile and DevOps Practices: Implement agile methodologies and DevOps practices to accelerate the platform's development and deployment cycles.
• Talent Cultivation: Mentor and grow a team of engineers with varying specialties.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of platform development and deployment at the scale of large enterprises.
• 7+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience preferably with some AI experience
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to cloud development such as Kubernetes, Serverless, and cloud PaaS offerings.
• Knowledge of foundational Generative AI concepts such as prompt engineering, RAG, finetuning, etc.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure specific to AI deployments, including cost optimization, AI PaaS deployments, etc.

Business and Sector Expertise

• Experience in industries that utilize AI and cloud with large amounts of varying data types, such as technology, finance, healthcare, or media.
• Insight into the regulatory and compliance aspects of deploying platforms in regulated or mission critical business operations.

Compensation/Benefits Information (New York applicants only):

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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