Global Platform & AI Engineering Director

Consortium; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work that supports balance

Health and wellbeing rewards

Salary to purchase company shares with

Recognition awards and team events

Job summary

Computershare is seeking a seasoned technology leader to shape and deliver our global Platform and AI Engineering strategy. In this senior role, you will define architecture, multi-year roadmaps and secure, scalable platforms that empower engineering teams to move faster through automation and responsible AI adoption.

Based in London with hybrid work, you will lead globally distributed Platform engineering teams, manage budgets, and partner with executives across Engineering, Security and Data

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in platform, cloud, DevOps or AI engineering within a large, regulated org.
• Architect-level knowledge of Azure (preferred) or AWS, Kubernetes, private cloud, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, observability and SRE.
• Strong knowledge of AI platform engineering, including LLM gateways, model serving, orchestration, guardrails and agent frameworks.
• Experience establishing DevSecOps practices and securing the software supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global Platform and AI Engineering strategy, architecture and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead engineering across hybrid cloud, CI/CD, IaC, DevSecOps, observability and internal developer platforms.
• Establish and operate enterprise AI platform services, including model access, routing, governance, metering, logging and audit.
• Contribute to governance and adoption of AI coding assistants and agentic automation across the SDLC.
• Develop secure, reusable engineering standards, reference architectures and policy-as-code controls.
• Run platform services as products with roadmaps, SLAs, backlogs and measurable outcomes.
• Lead globally distributed Platform engineering teams through coaching, recruitment and reskilling.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud

DevOps

AI engineering

Azure

Kubernetes

GitOps

Security

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Computershare is seeking a seasoned technology leader to shape and deliver our global Platform and AI Engineering strategy. In this senior role, you will define architecture, multi-year roadmaps and secure, scalable platforms that empower engineering teams to move faster through automation and responsible AI adoption.

Based in London with hybrid work, you will lead globally distributed Platform engineering teams, manage budgets, and partner with executives across Engineering, Security and Data