Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Standard is an insurance and financial services company focused on customer-first service, operational excellence, and innovative technologies that support its customers. The Director, Data & AI Platform Engineering leads the strategy, development, delivery, and operational excellence of the enterprise Data & AI Platform while building multidisciplinary engineering teams and partnerships across technology, data, AI, governance, security, and risk functions.
Responsibilities
- Coach engineering managers, technical leads, architects, and senior engineers; build succession plans and strengthen leadership capacity
- Lead workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, capability development, and talent retention
- Establish clear accountability and decision-making across distributed teams and engineering disciplines
- Deliver platform-managed capabilities across Foundational Data & AI Products, Integration & Runtime, and Shared Substrate
- Guide engineering investment in canonical data products, the governed context foundation, model and tool gateways, registries, agent runtime, APIs, lakehouse, catalog, compute, storage, and golden-path automation
- Balance near-term delivery with platform sustainability, reuse, scalability, and the thin-platform boundary
- Establish engineering standards for architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, observability, incident response, resilience, documentation, and operational readiness
- Partner with Governance, Security, Risk, and Architecture so policy is technically enforced while architecture pattern-setting remains distinct from policy ownership
- Use delivery, reliability, quality, contract-conformance, adoption, and consumer-feedback measures to drive continuous improvement
- Communicate engineering priorities, delivery progress, operational health, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to senior stakeholders
- Enable self-service golden paths so consumers can build compliant solutions without embedding or waiting on the platform team
- Manage capacity, vendors, dependencies, and organizational scaling in alignment with the platform roadmap
Skills
- Education: A Bachelor's degree is required
- Experience: Minimum 8 – 10 years' experience within IT and 3+ years' experience managing IT employees
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale data, technology, platform, product, or analytics organizations and developing high-performing teams
- Strong strategic planning, prioritization, communication, stakeholder partnership, and organizational change leadership skills
- Experience operating in a regulated environment with governance, security, privacy, audit, risk, and access-control expectations
Benefits
- A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
- An annual incentive bonus plan
- Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure
- A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement
- Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance
- An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools
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