Director — FDE Office (Forward Deployed Engineering)

About GlobalFoundries: GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

About the role

GlobalFoundries is scaling the next generation of enterprise AI and agentic workflows through the CIO FDE Office. The Director leads a blended team of internal engineers, NCG resources, and contractor FDEs (partners) to incubate, industrialize, and operationalize AI-powered solutions across HR, IT, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and other business domains. This is a supervisory role that combines people leadership, portfolio and demand management, architecture direction, executive engagement, and financial stewardship of the AI platform. The Director sets the operating model and standards for a small, high-impact organization, ensures solutions ship with the right security, observability, governance, and cost controls, and serves as the CIO's trusted partner for translating enterprise AI strategy into delivered, measurable value. Roughly 70% of the role is strategy, leadership, and stakeholder engagement & management; ~30% is retained technical fluency and architecture judgment.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Talent Development: Lead, coach, and develop the team (5 direct reports plus 5 NCG resources); build a durable talent pipeline and career paths within the pod. Manage a blended workforce of internal GF FDE engineers and contractor resources; scale capacity up and down as demand requires. Set the CIO FDE Office operating model, engineering standards, roles/responsibilities, and delivery methodology. Own staffing plans, investment proposals, and capability-building; foster a culture of ownership, safety, and measurable outcomes.
• Portfolio, Intake Governance & Delivery: Own the CIO FDE portfolio — prioritize use cases, sequence delivery, and align capacity to the highest-value opportunities. Run intake governance for new technology requests: apply formal intake templates and screening questions to ensure strategic alignment and reusable patterns. Drive use cases from incubation to production without surprises in risk, security, or cost; hold go/no-go and production-readiness gates. Represent solutions at Design Review Board (DRB) and enterprise architecture reviews.
• Enterprise AI & Agentic Platform Strategy: Set technical direction for enterprise AI agents built across various enterprise applications such as ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, Supply Chain, HR, and IT Operations.