AI Platform Team Lead: Engineering & Enablement

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee benefits

Job summary

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to pivot quickly, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

We are building an AI Platform Team and seek an AI Platform Team Lead to oversee both AI Platform Engineering and AI Support & Enablement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing cross-functional technical teams, ideally spanning software engineering, platform operations, or product support.
• Strong architectural background with technical expertise in distributed systems, API gateway management, and Go/Python.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to define operational governance, cost-control workflows, and vendor management strategies.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and transition rapid prototypes into stable, permanent enterprise platforms.

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 internal on-premise AI hardware to ensure seamless model routing.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Distributed systems

API gateway management

Go/Python

Architectural background

Vendor management

Cost-control workflows

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to pivot quickly, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

We are building an AI Platform Team and seek an AI Platform Team Lead to oversee both AI Platform Engineering and AI Support & Enablement.