AI Platform Engineering Executive

NBMBAA; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 326,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Nationwide seeks an AVP, Software Engineer – Artificial Intelligence to provide strategic direction for an enterprise AI portfolio and oversee its lifecycle, governance, and cost control. You will lead a multidisciplinary software engineering organization and collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to drive adoption and value.

You will champion responsible AI, security, privacy, and platform reliability, while guiding staffing, budgets, and supplier relationships to sustain scalable AI

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of progressive technology leadership experience across software engineering, platform engineering, technology product management, cloud, infrastructure, operations, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale platforms or shared services; setting product strategy and adoption models; operating production technology; managing budgets, workforce plans, suppliers, and third-party solutions.

Responsibilities

• Defines the strategy, operating model, product discipline, and multi-year roadmap for AI Platform Engineering, Core Capabilities and Operations in alignment with enterprise technology priorities.
• Leads adoption of reusable AI and agent capabilities, model and tool catalogs, platform services, testing and evaluation frameworks, observability, and cost-management capabilities.
• Maintains responsible AI, model governance, evaluation, safety, privacy, security, provenance, access, and lifecycle practices for shared AI and agent capabilities.
• Holds accountability for availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, capacity, security, observability, and cost management across the AI systems portfolio.
• Establishes production-readiness, service-management, resilience, security, privacy, access, migration, and retirement practices; monitors adoption, reliability, and cost.

Skills

Executive leadership

AI platform engineering

Cloud / security / risk

Cost optimization

Strategic thinking

Education

Undergraduate degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, business, or a related field preferred

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Observability tooling

Model governance

Reusable patterns

Job description

Nationwide seeks an AVP, Software Engineer – Artificial Intelligence to provide strategic direction for an enterprise AI portfolio and oversee its lifecycle, governance, and cost control. You will lead a multidisciplinary software engineering organization and collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to drive adoption and value.

You will champion responsible AI, security, privacy, and platform reliability, while guiding staffing, budgets, and supplier relationships to sustain scalable AI