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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Product Architect (Platform Foundations) - **Company:** Equinix - **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Abstraction Layers, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Mobile Application Development, Programming Tools, Network Control, Reliability Engineering, HybridCloud, AI Platforms, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks - **Published:** May 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/job/detail/87188916/Senior-Product-Architect-Platform-Foundations ## About the Role * 15+ years of experience in product management, platform engineering, infrastructure strategy, developer platforms, or enterprise architecture * Experience leading large-scale platform or infrastructure transformation initiatives * Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, infrastructure platforms, developer tooling, and operational reliability models * Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations organizations * Experience building platform products that improve developer productivity and operational scalability * Strong executive communication and strategic planning skills * Experience with Agile product operating models and platform portfolio management * Familiarity with AI-native development workflows, infrastructure automation, and agent-enabled systems preferred * Bachelor's degree preferred ## Description Leads the vision, strategy, and execution for the Platform Foundations capability domain within Equinix Engineering Excellence (E3). Owns the product portfolio and long-term roadmap for the foundational platform capabilities that enable secure, portable, scalable, and AI-native workload delivery across hybrid infrastructure environments. The Platform Foundations domain is responsible for creating the underlying abstractions, controls, automation frameworks, and developer experiences that standardize how infrastructure and workloads are defined, deployed, governed, and operated across cloud, colocation, and on-premises environments. This leader acts as the single-threaded product owner for the domain strategy, investment priorities, executive inspection narrative, and customer adoption outcomes. They work cross-functionally with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, SRE, AI platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable improvements in developer productivity, operational resilience, portability, governance, and infrastructure efficiency. The role requires balancing long-term platform architecture with practical adoption strategies, ensuring that foundational capabilities are discoverable, consumable, and integrated into developer workflows rather than operating as standalone infrastructure programs. Responsibilities Capability Domain Strategy & Vision Defines and evolves the long-term vision, operating model, and roadmap for the Platform Foundations capability domain, including: * Unified environment abstraction layers across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructure * Infrastructure Control Plane capabilities * Workload portability and placement frameworks * Runtime adapters and deployment orchestration * Infrastructure policy, governance, and guardrails * Declarative infrastructure and workload intent models * Foundational APIs, platform contracts, and capability discovery services * Agent-ready infrastructure interfaces and AI-native platform enablement * Establishes strategic direction aligned to Equinix engineering productivity, reliability, cost efficiency, and AI transformation goals Product Portfolio Ownership * Owns a portfolio of foundational platform products and capabilities, including roadmap prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, and adoption strategy. Ensures the portfolio delivers reusable platform leverage across all engineering organizations Executive Inspection Leadership * Partners with engineering leaders to shape and govern the executive inspection process for the Platform Foundations domain. Drives alignment between engineering execution and executive-level business outcomes Customer & Developer Experience Leadership * Represents the needs of developers, infrastructure engineers, SREs, security teams, and platform consumers. Partners with Voice of Developer and adoption programs to continuously refine platform usability and discoverability Cross-Functional Platform Leadership * Works across E3, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, Architecture, and Delivery organizations to align platform strategy and execution. Acts as a connective layer between business priorities, platform architecture, and engineering execution Financial & Investment Planning * Develops business cases and investment strategies for foundational platform capabilities. Understands platform economics, including cost-to-serve, workload efficiency, infrastructure utilization, and engineering leverage models Product & Adoption Metrics * Defines and governs KPIs for Platform Foundations adoption and effectiveness. Uses telemetry and analytics to continuously improve platform experiences and prioritize roadmap investments Agile Product & Engineering Partnership * Partners closely with engineering and architecture leaders to define execution priorities and delivery sequencing. Ensures platform engineering efforts remain outcome-oriented and aligned to enterprise priorities, Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. 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