AVP, Enterprise Tech Leader: Platform & AI Modernization
AT&T
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Job summary
AT&T is seeking an executive to lead enterprise technology modernization across network software platforms, APIs, automation, and cloud-native architectures. The role focuses on AI-enabled transformations, governance, and strategic investments to accelerate delivery velocity and platform reliability.
The candidate will shape architecture vision, drive multi-organization alignment, and represent AT&T in industry forums while delivering impact across core technology domains and customer-centric
Qualifications
- Designs and executes technology strategies supporting organizational objectives, enterprise modernization, and innovation.
- Oversees departmental programs and remains actively engaged in architecture, engineering, and implementation decisions.
- Typically leads large organizations consisting of supervisors, managers, and professional-level employees.
- Requires management of employees within the MTS organization.
- Strong expertise in enterprise platform modernization, OSS/API ecosystems, cloud-native technologies, AI-enabled transformation, systems integration, and large-scale software engineering environments.
- Ability to align multiple executive organizations while driving governance, modernization, investment, vendor, and workforce strategies.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise Technology Leadership: Lead enterprise-wide technology modernization strategy, governance, operating models, investment priorities, and execution across network software platforms, APIs, automation, cloud-native architectures, and AI-enabled systems.
- Strategic Technical Leadership: Establish architecture vision, engineering standards, integration frameworks, and modernization roadmaps that align technology transformation initiatives with business goals.
- Platform Architecture & Engineering: Direct the design, development, integration, and operational readiness of scalable platforms, APIs, real-time data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud-native solutions supporting automated network operations.
- AI & Transformation Leadership: Drive adoption of AI-enabled, agentic, and cloud-native architectures, including AI/ML, RAG, LLM integration, reasoning models, and intelligent workflow orchestration to improve automation, resiliency, delivery velocity, and operational efficiency.
- Organizational Capability Development: Build and scale internal engineering capabilities, strengthen platform ownership, reduce dependency on vendor-managed solutions, and improve delivery velocity across critical technology domains.
- Executive Governance & Investment Strategy: Lead technology governance, investment prioritization, roadmap sequencing, and transformation planning across multiple organizations to maximize business value and execution efficiency.
- Project and Organizational Leadership: Lead large technical organizations responsible for architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational support while providing executive-level stakeholder communications.
- Research & Innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and engineering practices to improve platform performance, scalability, automation, and long-term sustainability.
- Industry Leadership: Represent AT&T in industry forums, partner engagements, standards organizations, and technical communities while promoting innovation and advancing enterprise technology strategy.
- Qualifying Technical Expertise Areas: Enterprise OSS Architecture & Modernization, Enterprise Network Software, API Strategy & Integration, Cloud-Native Platforms, AI/ML & Agentic Architectures, Systems Architecture, Real-Time Data Platforms, Platform Engineering, Software Development, DevOps Automation, and Telecommunications Network Technologies including Mobility, Fiber, Wireline, IP, Optical, and RAN environments.
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Job description
AT&T is seeking an executive to lead enterprise technology modernization across network software platforms, APIs, automation, and cloud-native architectures. The role focuses on AI-enabled transformations, governance, and strategic investments to accelerate delivery velocity and platform reliability.
The candidate will shape architecture vision, drive multi-organization alignment, and represent AT&T in industry forums while delivering impact across core technology domains and customer-centric
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