Platform Engineering Director

Visium SA; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual education budget

Sport budget

Flexible working culture

Impact on thousands of people

International, knowledgeable team

Job summary

Visium SA in Barcelona seeks a Platform Engineering Director to lead the design, build, and evolution of client-facing AI and Data platform capabilities.

You will manage forward-deployed platform engineering teams, drive platform strategy, and advise senior client stakeholders while growing accounts with a strong leadership presence.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience leading large-scale platform engineering programs in AI and Data.
• Deep understanding of the consulting business with a track record of delivering large projects.
• Strong technical depth across modern platform stacks and production AI use cases.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead delivery of complex AI and Data platform programs, spanning cloud infra, automation, CI/CD, and IaC, with Azure focus.
• Define and drive platform engineering standards across engagements for repeatability and client value.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders, including C-level and VP Engineering.
• Lead and mentor platform engineers and engagement managers to foster excellence and ownership.
• Identify upsell opportunities and collaborate with commercial teams to expand Visium’s footprint.
• Champion an inspiring engineering culture that attracts talent and energizes clients.

Skills

Platform leadership

Executive communication

Team mentorship

Strategic account growth

Client relationships

MLOps pipelines

Tools

Azure

CI/CD

IaC

Cloud architecture

Job description

Visium combines strategy, frontier AI, and deep regulated-industry expertise to build and deploy AI-native systems that reinvent how businesses operate - unlocking the value of AI at scale.

We’re not a strategy firm that ships slide decks and walks away. Not a tech consultancy that builds what won’t get adopted. Not a product company chasing problems it doesn’t understand. We’re all three at once: strategy, deep technical and integration expertise, and product, working as one. That combination is our flywheel. Consulting keeps us close to the hardest real-world problems. Products let us solve them at scale. Every engagement sharpens our products; every deployment makes the next engagement faster, deeper, and more certain.

We’re obsessed with outcomes. While 95% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production, Visium is built to be the 5% delivering productised AI that compounds in value, not point solutions that deliver marginal gains. We are AI-native, not AI-adjacent. We don’t bolt AI onto broken workflows; we redesign them with AI at the core.

Role

As a Platform Engineering Director, you will lead the design, build, and evolution of Visium’s client-facing AI and Data platform capabilities. You are the technical authority and delivery lead for our most complex platform programs — the person who ensures that what we build is not only technically excellent but also adoptable, scalable, and genuinely transformative.

You will directly manage forward-deployed platform engineering teams, drive platform strategy across engagements, and act as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders. You bring hands‑on depth in the modern data and AI platform stack, from infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD to cloud architecture and production AI use cases, combined with the leadership presence and commercial instinct to grow accounts and inspire teams.

As a Platform Engineering Director, you will work on

• Architect and lead the delivery of complex AI and Data platform programs, spanning cloud infrastructure design, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC, from initial scoping through to production deployment. Our focus is on Azure.
• Define and drive platform engineering standards and best practices across engagements, ensuring repeatability, reliability, and long‑term client value.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, including C-Level and VP Engineering personas, acting as a hands‑on technical advisor who earns trust through delivery.
• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers and engagement managers, cultivating a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and ownership.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities within existing accounts, partnering with the commercial team to expand Visium’s platform footprint.
• Champion an inspiring, outward‑facing engineering culture, one that attracts strong talent and energizes clients with a clear and compelling vision for what great platform engineering looks like.

To succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:

• Proven, hands‑on experience leading large‑scale platform engineering programs in AI and Data — you have built, shipped and operated production‑grade platforms, not just designed them.

• Mastered the consulting business - you know exactly how the business works and have a proven track record in delivering successful large projects

• Deep technical expertise across the modern platform stack: CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, cloud platform design (focus Azure,), and automation at scale.

• Demonstrated experience delivering AI and Data use cases end‑to‑end on enterprise platforms, including MLOps pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and AI‑based workflows.

• Proven people leadership: you have hired, grown, and retained high‑performing platform engineering teams in fast‑paced consulting or product environments.

• Commercial acumen and a track record of contributing to account growth, whether through identifying upsell opportunities, leading presales technical conversations, or building long‑term client partnerships.

• Outstanding communication and presence: you can translate complex platform concepts into compelling narratives for both technical and executive audiences, and you do so with energy and conviction.

• An inspiring, outgoing personality — you lead from the front, bring others with you, and make the work feel meaningful.

• Fluent in English; French and/or German are a plus.

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package
• A yearly education budget to steep your learning curve
• A yearly sport budget because a fit body leads to a fit mind
• A flexible working culture because your work‑life balance matters to us
• A position that enables you to have an impact on 1’000s of people, and the whole company’s growth.
• An international, knowledgeable, and passionate team with a strong collaborative mindset

Check our LinkedIn and website to learn more about us & don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.