Director, AI Platform Engineering — Scale AI for 5k Developers

Experian Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation package and bonus

Medical, dental, vision, and 401K

Flexible work environment: remote,hyb​

Flexible time off including volunteer,

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Job summary

Experian is seeking a Senior Director of AI Platform Engineering to oversee a platform enabling 5,000 developers to build, run, and govern AI agents. You will define a north star, roadmaps, and ship production systems that move the org from AI experimentation to AI-native software delivery at scale.

You will report to the VP of Developer Platform Engineering and lead a team responsible for identity, policy enforcement, cost controls, and a marketplace for AI automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology roles.
• 3+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Track record building and operating production AI systems at enterprise scale (RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, LLM API integration, governance).
• Fluency in the software development lifecycle and a point of view on how AI changes the shape of it.
• Implementation-level knowledge of MCP protocol and agentic orchestration.
• Experience designing developer-facing platforms with contribution and governance models at scale.
• Leadership history of setting technical direction, review architecture, and staying close to implementation while leading a lean team.

Responsibilities

• Oversee creation of the internal platform that is responsible for identity, rate limiting, data classification enforcement, audit logging, and model access management.
• Oversee the agent marketplace - the registry, trust framework, and contribution model that turns every team's AI automation into shared organizational capability
• Build the pipeline-level AI layer, assessing where governed AI steps in CI/CD create the most leverage
• Own the knowledge graph and retrieval architecture
• Review designs, unblock implementation, and set grounding and governance standards for the team of developers you will oversee
• The best candidate has shipped production AI systems and can shape how AI changes software development.

Skills

Tech leadership

Senior leadership

Production AI systems

SDLC fluency

MCP protocol knowledge

Developer platforms

Technical direction

Job description

Experian is seeking a Senior Director of AI Platform Engineering to oversee a platform enabling 5,000 developers to build, run, and govern AI agents. You will define a north star, roadmaps, and ship production systems that move the org from AI experimentation to AI-native software delivery at scale.

You will report to the VP of Developer Platform Engineering and lead a team responsible for identity, policy enforcement, cost controls, and a marketplace for AI automation.