Sr. Manager, Platform Delivery Lead, Data & AI
Raleigh, NC Hybrid
$146,200–$189,200 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
As part of our enterprise AI strategy to speed life-changing therapies to patients, we are seeking a Platform Delivery Lead to lead the technical development and delivery of the foundational Data and AI platform products that power AI/ML solutions across the enterprise. In this role, you will bridge the needs of platform consumers and use case teams with technical execution, and manage platform engineering teams composed of internal resources and key external partners. You will drive technical excellence in our shared platform capabilities through hands-on architecture decisions, engineering quality standards and modern data and AI engineering practices, delivering reliable, secure, and scalable platform services from concept to scaled release. This position will report to the Associate Director, Data & AI Platform and is based in Raleigh, NC.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor's or higher degree in data or computer science, and 8+ years of relevant experience (BA/BS) / 6+ years relevant experience (MA/MS/MBA)
- Significant experience leading technical delivery in an agile environment.
- Fluent with Agile/Scrum methodology and mindsets
- Experience as a lead data engineer, platform engineer, or solution architect.
- Strong technical understanding of AWS data and AI services (e.g., S3, EKS, Lake Formation, Bedrock) and the Databricks platform (e.g., Unity Catalog, Lakeflow/Delta Live Tables, model serving, databricks apps), including how these are assembled into enterprise-grade data and AI platforms
- Experience building and operating shared, multi-tenant platform capabilities and self-service developer experiences
- Experience working with large (15+) dispersed development teams
- Product-centric mindset
- Strong understanding of modern data and AI architectures, including data lakehouse, MLOps/LLMOps, API / Event driven architectures and agentic/AI service patterns
- Strong team leadership skills
- able to lead and influence without authority.
- Excellent communications and stakeholder management skills.