Director, Enterprise AI & FDE Office

GlobalFoundries; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 191,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries seeks a Director to lead the CIO FDE Office, guiding a blended team of internal and contract engineers to incubate and operationalize AI-powered solutions across HR, IT, and manufacturing. You will shape the operating model, ensure security and cost controls, and partner with the CIO to translate strategy into measurable value.

The role emphasizes 70% strategic leadership and 30% hands-on architectural judgment, with accountability for staffing, budget, and vendor relations in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (advanced degree a plus).
• 12+ years of technology experience, including 5+ years leading engineering, delivery, or platform teams.
• Proven people-leadership track record: hiring, coaching, and scaling blended internal/contractor teams and early-career talent.
• Demonstrated ownership of budgets, licensing/SOWs, and technology cost governance.
• Strong architecture fluency across APIs, enterprise integration, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and modern application development.
• Experience partnering with senior business and C-suite stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the team 5 direct reports plus 5 NCG resources; build a durable talent pipeline and career paths within the pod.
• Manage a blended workforce of internal GF FDE engineers and contractor resources; scale capacity up and down as demand requires.
• Set the CIO FDE Office operating model, engineering standards, roles/responsibilities, and delivery methodology.
• Own staffing plans, investment proposals, and capability-building; foster a culture of ownership, safety, and measurable outcomes.
• Own budget accountability for the CIO FDE Office - platform licensing, SOWs/contracts, contractor spend, and cloud/AI consumption.
• Build and maintain AI tokenomics visibility: showback/chargeback models across Copilot, Cowork, AWS Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, and other GenAI tools.
• Forecast AI/cloud consumption, model ROI and total cost of ownership, and drive cost transparency and spend governance for business units.
• Balance speed of incubation with disciplined cost control; make model, harness, and local-LLM trade-off decisions.

Skills

People leadership

Budget governance

Architecture fluency

C-suite stakeholder engagement

Cloud experience

API integrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

ServiceNow

Workday

SAP

LeanIX

Bizzdesign

TOGAF/APQC

Job description

GlobalFoundries seeks a Director to lead the CIO FDE Office, guiding a blended team of internal and contract engineers to incubate and operationalize AI-powered solutions across HR, IT, and manufacturing. You will shape the operating model, ensure security and cost controls, and partner with the CIO to translate strategy into measurable value.

The role emphasizes 70% strategic leadership and 30% hands-on architectural judgment, with accountability for staffing, budget, and vendor relations in a