AI Platform Lead: Governance, Platform & Enablement

DRW; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with discretionary employer match

Short and long-term disability

Life and AD&D insurance

Health Savings Accounts

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

DRW, a diversified trading firm headquartered in Chicago, seeks an AI Platform Team Lead to unify AI Platform Engineering and AI Support & Enablement. You will drive a Federated Management Plane, align engineering with user insights, and own governance of multi-engine APIs, data pipelines, and cost controls.

You will manage engineers and AI support specialists, delivering fast, reliable platforms while optimizing performance and cost.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams.
• Strong background in distributed systems and API gateways.
• Experience with Go or Python.
• Ability to define governance, cost-control workflows, and vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a dual-focus team consisting of software engineers and AI support specialists, balancing rigorous agile engineering delivery with high-touch user enablement.
• Oversee the technical vision for our "Federated Management Plane," managing the development of multi-engine API gateways, asynchronous data pipelines, and progressive friction policies.
• Translate insights from the Support queue into technical requirements for the Engineering focus area to automate.
• Act as the primary DRI connecting our Cloud foundation, 3rd-party SaaS vendors, and our on-premise AI hardware to ensure seamless model routing.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Distributed systems

API gateway management

Go/Python

Governance & cost control

Vendor management

Job description

DRW, a diversified trading firm headquartered in Chicago, seeks an AI Platform Team Lead to unify AI Platform Engineering and AI Support & Enablement. You will drive a Federated Management Plane, align engineering with user insights, and own governance of multi-engine APIs, data pipelines, and cost controls.

You will manage engineers and AI support specialists, delivering fast, reliable platforms while optimizing performance and cost.