Head of AI Platform Engineering and Public Cloud

About the role

We are seeking a senior technology leader to serve as Head of AI Platform Engineering & Public Cloud, responsible for defining and executing TMHCC’s enterprise platform strategy across both cloud and artificial intelligence domains. This role will build and lead a net-new AI Platform Engineering function while inheriting and evolving the existing Public Cloud Platform Engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise strategy for AI platform engineering and multi-cloud environments

• Drive decisions on standardization, centralization, and build vs. buy

• Align platform roadmap with business priorities

• Build and scale a net-new AI platform function

• Implement governance-by-engineering with policy-as-code and automated controls

• Partner with security on identity, data protection, and secure AI usage

• Establish model access, observability, and risk frameworks

• Reduce shadow AI through approved tools and vendor strategies

• Lead and evolve the existing cloud platform team

• Ensure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud capabilities

• Integrate cloud and AI strategies into a unified platform model

• Operate platforms as products with clear roadmaps and metrics

• Develop internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities

• Define service catalogs and golden paths

• Drive adoption through developer-centric design

• Improve developer experience through self-service and automation

• Deliver APIs, templates, and platform interfaces

• Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption

• Embed governance via policy-as-code and automated guardrails through close partnership with Information Security

• Standardize identity, secrets, and access controls

• Ensure audit-ready telemetry and compliance

• Enforce data governance and AI usage controls

• Embed cost management into platform capabilities

• Provide cost visibility and enforce budgets

• Drive accountability via consumption models

• Optimize cloud and AI cost-performance tradeoffs

• Build and lead a high-performing platform engineering organization

• Define operating models across federated teams

• Influence stakeholders without direct authority

• Develop talent and foster accountability culture

What You Bring

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• Experience: 10+ years in cloud, platform engineering, or AI environments, 5+ years leading engineering or platform teams, experience building and scaling platform capabilities, strong technical background in cloud and AI/LLM systems, experience with policy-as-code and governance frameworks, understanding of AI risks, security, and data governance, ability to lead through ambiguity and drive outcomes

• Preferred Experience: Building enterprise AI platforms, experience with internal developer platforms, familiarity with RAG and agentic workflows, finops and cost optimization experience, exposure to SRE and modern platform tooling, experience integrating with enterprise systems

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental benefit package, with eligibility beginning on your date of hire

• A strong learning culture with ongoing development opportunities

• Basic life and disability insurance

• A 401(k) plan with 6% company match

• 20 days of PTO, two floating holidays, approximately 11 paid holidays, and volunteer time off

• Paid parental leave

• An opportunity to do meaningful work and love what you do

Pay Transparency

The pay range for this position is $175,600 - $387,300, which includes geographic adjustments, where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer

TMHCC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances.