Global AI Platform Manager

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking a seasoned leader to run end-to-end operations of a global AI platform.

You will steer a multidisciplinary team to deliver secure, scalable services, define SLAs, control releases, and optimize costs while advancing AI capabilities across the enterprise. You will partner with cross-functional teams to govern operations, improve observability, ensure compliance, and drive continuous service improvement in a high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AI/ML platforms, technology operations, or enterprise-scale platform management.
• Proven track record in operating enterprise AI platforms, delivering service reliability and SLA compliance.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft AI Services, cloud platforms, MLOps, SRE practices, observability, and platform reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AI Platform Operations, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise services.
• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team across platform engineering, MLOps, SRE, FinOps, security, and integration support.
• Own operational excellence, resource planning, workforce development, and budget accountability.
• Oversee AI platform services, ensuring stability, performance, scalability, and business continuity.
• Define and govern service catalogs, SLAs, support models, release processes, and operational controls.
• Drive AI Ops, MLOps, observability, monitoring, incident management, and continuous service improvement.
• Ensure platform security, identity governance, data protection, compliance, and policy enforcement.
• Lead FinOps practices, including cost optimization, capacity planning, and spend transparency.
• Deliver reusable platform capabilities, deployment support, and shared services for development teams.
• Provide strategic recommendations to leadership on platform investments, priorities, funding, risk posture, and long-term evolution.

Skills

AI Platform Operations

MLOps

SRE practices

Cloud platforms

Security by design

Tools

Microsoft AI Services

Job description

Lead the end-to-end operations of Hitachi Energy’s enterprise AI Platform, ensuring secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient services for global business use. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive platform evolution, operational excellence, MLOps, AI security, observability, FinOps, and reusable AI capabilities, while leading a multidisciplinary global team of platform operations professionals.

How you will make an impact

• Lead end-to-end AI Platform Operations, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise services.
• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team across platform engineering, MLOps, SRE, FinOps, security, and integration support.
• Own operational excellence, resource planning, workforce development, and budget accountability.
• Oversee AI platform services, ensuring stability, performance, scalability, and business continuity.
• Define and govern service catalogs, SLAs, support models, release processes, and operational controls.
• Drive AI Ops, MLOps, observability, monitoring, incident management, and continuous service improvement.
• Ensure platform security, identity governance, data protection, compliance, and policy enforcement.
• Lead FinOps practices, including cost optimization, capacity planning, and spend transparency.
• Deliver reusable platform capabilities, deployment support, and shared services for development teams.
• Provide strategic recommendations to leadership on platform investments, priorities, funding, risk posture, and long-term evolution.

Your background

• 10+ years of experience in AI/ML platforms, technology operations, or enterprise-scale platform management.
• Proven track record in operating enterprise AI platforms, delivering service reliability, SLA compliance, and operational excellence.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft AI Services, cloud platforms, MLOps, SRE practices, observability, and platform reliability.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost management, capacity planning, chargeback models, and consumption optimization.
• Strong knowledge of platform security, identity and access management, and security-by-design principles.
• Proven experience managing incidents, release governance, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
• Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary technology operations teams in complex global environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to drive end-to-end platform operations and governance.

More about us

We believe great work thrives in an environment where people feel genuinely supported and fairly rewarded. Our benefits are designed to create real value for every individual – fueling engagement, performance, and growth. By prioritizing well‑being, we build a workplace where personal and organizational success grow together.

Our benefit offering is tailored based on your country of employment and generally includes:

• Competitive salary and incentives
• Well-being and care
• Paid and unpaid leave
• Flexible work options
• Benefits that support your financial security

You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.

Job function Data Analytics | Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Contract Regular

Publication date 2026-10-15

Reference number R0146494

About Hitachi Energy

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.