Clould AI Platform Architect, Director

Hearst Corporation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Environment

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Fitch Group is seeking a Cloud AI Platform Architect to lead enterprise AI platform deployment across Anthropic and OpenAI ecosystems in New York. You will own the productionization, governance, and secure operation of large-language-model platforms, collaborating with DevOps, Security, and Cloud teams to scale reliable AI services.

You will evaluate capabilities from Anthropic and OpenAI, enable self-service access with guardrails, and drive enterprise readiness while balancing innovation speed

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying or operating Anthropic and/or OpenAI in enterprise or production environments.
• Experience providing AI services via Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud.
• Strong background in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience partnering with Information Security on access controls, governance, and risk management.
• Practical experience with API platforms, environment separation, and multi-tenant or multi-org designs.
• Ability to balance innovation speed with operational discipline and safety.
• Strong written communication skills for documenting platform standards, guardrails, and operating models.

Responsibilities

• Ensure enterprise AI platforms are production-ready: highly available, cost-controlled, compliant.
• Design and run underlying AI platforms, not applications or prompts.
• Enable self-service access with guardrails to prevent misconfiguration.
• Evaluate Anthropic and OpenAI capabilities and determine enterprise readiness.
• Partner with Engineering squads to integrate AI platforms into the Cloud ecosystem.
• Establish guardrails for cost management and forecasting.
• Embed security, privacy, and data controls into AI platform configurations.
• Implement and enforce access controls, data retention, and model usage boundaries.
• Support auditability and compliance by logging and reviewability.
• Translate policy into enforceable platform controls.
• Adopt Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration-as-code approaches.
• Collaborate with SRE and TechOps to ensure reliability and scalability.

Job description

Job Description

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Cloud AI Platform Architect (Anthropic and OpenAI) to join our Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering team in New York.

As a leading, global financial information services provider, Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights, robust data, and dynamic tools to champion more efficient, transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries, Fitch Group's culture of credibility, independence, and transparency is embedded throughout its structure, which includes Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, and Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. It is the strength of our business. It comes from people around the world in a shared pursuit: to equal something greater than they could ever accomplish alone. Every team member is essential to our business and every perspective is critical for our success. Develop yourself in a culture that values flexibility, expects your opinion and trusts your decisions. Together we evolve and so will you, in an environment that asks you to challenge yourself - and us.

About the Team

This is a leadership role within Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, serving as subject matter expert in Enterprise AI Deployment. This team owns Core DevOps Tools, Cloud Platform Engineering, Networking, and Reliability Engineering for all Fitch Group businesses. The role is responsible for the enterprise configuration, and operationalization of machine learning and large-language-model platforms, with a primary focus on platforms such as Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Databricks, and Snowflake. This role owns how these platforms are securely provisioned, governed, monitored, and scaled across multiple organizations, environments, and use cases.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Sitting at the intersection of DevOps, emerging technology, technical operations, and information security, this role ensures that foundation-model platforms are production-ready: highly available, cost-controlled, compliant, and easy for engineering and business teams to consume safely.
• The role is not focused on building applications or prompts, but on designing and running the underlying AI platforms that everything else depends on. They partner with Core Engineering and Reliability Engineering squads to integrate AI platforms into the larger Cloud ecosystem at Fitch.
• Enable self-service access for approved teams, with guardrails that prevent misconfiguration or policy violations.
• Evaluate new capabilities from Anthropic and OpenAI (e.g., advanced agent features, new models, tooling changes) and determine enterprise readiness. Enable safe experimentation with these as well as competing services.
• Influence vendor roadmap discussions by bringing an enterprise platform perspective.
• Establish guardrails for cost management and forecasting, working with TechOps and Finance where needed.
• Partner closely with Information Security and Technology Operations to embed security, privacy, and data controls into AI platform configurations.
• Implement and enforce: Role-based access and segregation of duties, Data handling and retention controls, Model usage boundaries and red-line capabilities.
• Support auditability and compliance requirements by ensuring AI usage is logged, traceable, and reviewable.
• Serve as the technical owner for translating policy into enforceable platform controls.
• Establish Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration-as-code approaches for AI platform provisioning where possible.
• Partner with SRE and TechOps teams to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and operational maturity.

You May be a Good Fit If

• You have hands-on experience deploying or operating Anthropic and/or OpenAI in enterprise or production environments.
• Experience providing AI services via Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud.
• Strong background in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure, with an understanding of how to productionize developer platforms.
• Experience partnering with Information Security on access controls, governance, and risk management.
• Practical experience with API platforms, environment separation, and multi-tenant or multi-org designs.
• Ability to balance innovation speed with operational discipline and safety.
• Strong written communication skills for documenting platform standards, guardrails, and operating models.

What Would Make You Stand Out

• Experience supporting AI platforms in regulated or risk-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns, orchestration layers, or AI platform governance models.
• Background providing services to large organizations with multiple business units.
• A track record of creating architecture diagrams, design documentation, standards, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-transfer materials that improve supportability and reduce single points of expertise.

Why Choose Fitch

• Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location.
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity.
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals.
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing.
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively.
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe.
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affidivante Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

FOR NEW YORK ROLES ONLY

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $200,000 and $220,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch's total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.

Nearest Major Market

Manhattan

Nearest Secondary Market

New York City