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# Senior Director, AI Systems and Platforms

- **Company:** Edwards Ltd
- **Location:** Irvine, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $232,000.0 - $329,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, IT Architecture, AI Platforms, Machine Learning Operations, Software Coding, Microservices
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.businessworkforce.com/job.asp?id=3397004678&tx=YT1818THD&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of experience in software or AI architecture, including at least 5 years in a formal technical leadership or chief architect capacity
 * Experience negotiating a formal shared-capacity or co-delivery model with an internal IT organization

What else we look for (Preferred):

 * AI reference architecture design, platform rationalization, and vendor spend management (FinOps)
 * Hands-on fluency with enterprise cloud AI platforms, API and microservices design, MLOps or LLMOps, observability, and secure production operations; experience with major cloud platforms is illustrative rather than mandatory
 * Player-coach technical leadership: setting direction and writing code or reviewing designs personally, not managing through layers
 * Platform product management, internal developer-platform design, service-level management, and adoption measurement
 * Experience consolidating a fragmented platform or vendor estate
 * Experience chairing or running a cross-functional technical governance body
 * Demonstrated ability to manage one or more teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions, hire/fire authority, and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
 * Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management
 * Ability to work and excel within a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
 * Ability to ensure team alignment to strategic goals and initiatives through regular communication
 * Ability to coach and mentor team members, including dotted-line reports as necessary; align team members in roles that best leverage their strengths and support growth and skill diversification
 * Adhere to all company rules and requirements, including pandemic protocols and Environmental Health & Safety rules; take adequate control measures to prevent injuries to themselves and others, protect the environment, and prevent pollution within their span of influence/control

## Description

* Design reusable, secure, multi-tenant AI services that product and business teams can consume without rebuilding common capabilities
 * Operate the AI platform as an internal product with defined customers, roadmap, service levels, adoption measures, and developer experience
 * Chair the operating cadence of the AI Center of Excellence
 * Own build, buy, or rent decisions for AI capabilities, with the authority to stop an internal build
 * Own the reference architecture and enforce technical standards across all AI initiatives
 * Own the AI gateway, model routing, and observability layer
 * Build and lead delivery pods that include engineers from IT under a formal shared-capacity agreement
 * Own and rationalize the AI platform estate, including vendor spend attribution
 * Own production reliability for AI applications