AI/ML Platform Lead — Hybrid, Azure & Databricks

ADUSA Corporate Support; Scarborough (ME); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

ADUSA Corporate Support seeks a seasoned platform leader to own the roadmap and drive platform capabilities in a data & analytics environment. You will translate stakeholder needs into concrete requirements with engineering leaders, prioritize cross-team work, and guide improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

You will partner with product teams to enable adoption, measure outcomes, and ensure governance across multiple engineering groups.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 8+ years in platform, product, or technical leadership roles.
• 6+ years working in the AI/ML space.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure.
• 5+ years of experience with Databricks.
• Strong grasp of lifecycle management, integration patterns, and operational excellence.
• Proficiency with agile planning, ceremony participation, and outcome tracking.
• Strong communication and stakeholder partnership skills, including the ability to translate needs into clear platform requirements and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain vision and roadmap for assigned platform domains, defining the why and what behind platform capabilities and investments.
• Advocate for stakeholder and tenant needs by gathering customer feedback, usage signals, and operational insights on how the platform is performing.
• Translate stakeholder needs into platform requirements, service definitions, and clear acceptance criteria in partnership with engineering managers and architects.
• Prioritize and deliver capabilities; manage tradeoffs, dependencies, and change impacts across teams and integrations.
• Partner with engineering managers and architects to identify innovation and continuous improvement opportunities across the platform, balancing reliability, cost, and developer experience.
• Monitor lifecycle health, including reliability, performance, and security; guide improvements that reduce operational risk and technical debt.
• Support platform governance by partnering with engineering managers across teams to enforce platform guidelines and policies, and by collaborating with other platform owners to improve governance and change management practices.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and provide feedback and guidance where needed to ensure decisions are documented and follow-through is maintained.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile planning

Communication

Platform governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Job description

ADUSA Corporate Support seeks a seasoned platform leader to own the roadmap and drive platform capabilities in a data & analytics environment. You will translate stakeholder needs into concrete requirements with engineering leaders, prioritize cross-team work, and guide improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

You will partner with product teams to enable adoption, measure outcomes, and ensure governance across multiple engineering groups.