Manages and implements corporate and divisional operational plans, develops and executes the function objectives, and provides broad direction to teams, team leads, and supervisors with accountability for outcomes, including building, leading, and growing a high-performing organization of engineers and engineering managers through hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning. Experience running ML or GenAI workloads in production, such as hosted model APIs (Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI or similar) behind API gateways, with authentication, rate limiting, and resilience, as well as building AI skills, plugins, and agents.