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Director, Product Software Architecture and Eng

Equinix · Dallas, TX · 6 days ago
HybridOTHRFull-time

About the role

Equinix Incubation builds the systems that support the software delivery lifecycle end to end, with humans directing the work and owning every critical gate. This role owns the product, the roadmap, and the engineering team behind that capability.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Product and the Roadmap

  • Define and drive the delivery-engine roadmap across orchestrator, agent fleet, consoles, dashboards, and enterprise integrations, sequenced for measurable value

  • Make the build-measure-learn loop real: ship in sprints, pilot with live delivery teams, and let adoption and telemetry reshape the plan

  • Own trade-off decisions across scope, quality, cost, and speed, and defend them with data in front of senior leadership

  • Build and Lead the Pods

  • Hire, grow, and retain a small, exceptional team of agent engineers, platform engineers, and delivery talent across the UK and India

  • Run lean pods where agents do the routine work and people do the judgment work; model that way of working yourself

  • Prove the Value

  • Own the value story: cycle time, throughput, quality, adoption, and realized business value, instrumented and reported clearly

  • Keep the economics honest: agent cost, platform cost, and capacity unlocked, treated as first-class engineering metrics

  • Turn pilot wins into an expansion case that finance and function leaders believe

  • Set the Operating Standard

  • Establish how agent-first engineering is done: evals as release gates, human-in-the-loop approvals, and responsible AI governance in partnership with InfoSec, architecture, and enterprise AI governance teams

  • Represent the platform in architecture and governance forums, and keep the roadmap aligned with enterprise platform and data strategy

  • Share patterns, standards, and playbooks so other teams can adopt what your team proves

Qualifications

  • Proven years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams or engineering-led products

  • A record of shipping and scaling platforms or products in an enterprise, from first release through adoption

  • Hands-on fluency with modern AI: LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, and what it takes to make them production-grade

  • Strong architectural judgment across APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration

  • Proven hiring and talent development record, including building distributed teams

  • Executive-grade communication: you can carry a room of senior stakeholders with a clear, honest narrative

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience delivering AI or automation platforms into regulated or security-conscious enterprises

  • Experience with agent frameworks and protocols such as MCP or A2A, and with eval-driven quality practices

  • Experience running product operating models: roadmaps, funding cases, value realization

  • Background in developer platforms, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity

Core Competencies

  • Product & Technical Leadership

  • Roadmap ownership; architectural judgment; trade-off decision-making; systems thinking

  • People Leadership

  • Hiring and talent development; lean pod design; coaching; distributed team leadership

  • AI-First Operating Model

  • Agent-first ways of working; evals and governance; human-in-the-loop design; value instrumentation

Why This Role

Incubation is a durable capability, not a project team: the team persists, and the product focus evolves. Agentic delivery is the first product; future incubation opportunities will follow. In this role, you will define how AI-first engineering works at Equinix and build the team that proves it. Few Director roles offer this combination of product ownership, architectural influence, executive visibility, and team-building scope

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