Remote AI Platform Engineering & Data Science Leader

Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 84,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Ferguson Enterprises, LLC is seeking an IT Manager, AI Platform Engineering & Data Science to lead a team delivering scalable AI, ML, and software platforms across a hybrid-cloud environment. The role focuses on cloud architecture, DevSecOps maturity, and rapid production deployment.

Reporting to a senior IT leader, you will drive platform modernization, developer experience, and operational efficiency while collaborating with AI engineering, data science, product, and IT stakeholders to align

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or CS or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years hands-on platform engineering experience.
• Experience leading engineering or technical teams and performance development.
• Strong software programming experience in Java and/or Python; architecture exposure.
• Experience with secure software delivery (DevSecOps) and CI/CD.
• Hands-on with platform services on GCP; knowledge of Azure for hybrid work.
• Experience enabling data science and ML workflows with cloud-native tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of platform engineers, architects, and specialists.
• Define and execute platform, cloud, and data science roadmaps.
• Design and optimize scalable, secure platform capabilities on GCP and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Partner with AI engineering, data science, product, and architecture teams.
• Drive DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and platform reliability standards.
• Own MLOps and data science platform capabilities for model lifecycle.
• Establish patterns, APIs, and reusable services to accelerate delivery.
• Lead modernization initiatives including cloud adoption and automation.
• Oversee project delivery, budgets, and vendor relationships.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

DevSecOps

CI/CD

MLOps

Data science

Leadership

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or computer science

Tools

GCP

Azure

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Job description

Ferguson Enterprises, LLC is seeking an IT Manager, AI Platform Engineering & Data Science to lead a team delivering scalable AI, ML, and software platforms across a hybrid-cloud environment. The role focuses on cloud architecture, DevSecOps maturity, and rapid production deployment.

Reporting to a senior IT leader, you will drive platform modernization, developer experience, and operational efficiency while collaborating with AI engineering, data science, product, and IT stakeholders to align