Build and lead a high-leverage, AI-first team that creates reusable capabilities, actively engages enterprise stakeholders, demonstrates measurable platform value, and models a build-and-show culture; lead function operations, talent, performance, budgets, licensing, capacity, and resourcing in accordance with enterprise policy. Strong working knowledge of solution architecture, APIs, data and semantic patterns, identity and access, security, privacy, observability, reliability, scalability, and production readiness, with the judgment to distinguish AI-product ownership from Enterprise Architecture and Engineering accountability.