When you join Verizon You want more out of a career A place to share your ideas freely even if they re daring or different Where the true you can learn grow and thrive At Verizon we power and empower how people live work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy We do what we love driving innovation creativity and impact in the world Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate lead and believe that listening is where learning begins In crisis and in celebration we come together lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up everywhere always Want in Join the VTeamLife What you ll be doing As an Associate Director you will be leading a team focused on scaling and managing AI-ML-Data Platform Engineering teams that cut across Verizon lines of businesses You will also be championing the transformation of the organization towards Site Reliability Engineering SRE practices In addition to this you will be setting the standards and building reusable services to industrialize the platform and operations ecosystem In this setup you will be leading a team of people leaders senior data ML platform engineers and princ engineers You will build best-in-class solutions and services on premise Cloud You will also play a key role in making ours a Great place to work through a strong focus on employee engagement enablement and talent development Serving as a technology thought leader and advisor to the organization Building a diverse team with a strong leadership pipeline and an inclusive culture and being a practitioner of attracting and retaining top Engineering talent Contributing to driving world class employee satisfaction through the implementation of relevant organizational initiatives that build on employee commitment Mentoring and guiding Senior experts and people leaders Defining continuously measuring the objectives key results to drive an outcome-oriented practice across the team Enabling career development via access to training resources on-the-job coaching and mentoring Leading the AI and Data engineering platform operations strategy and capabilities to provide best in class reliable infrastructure support for Analytics and AI users use cases Setting the vision and driving the Site Reliability Engineering SRE transformation Building cutting edge capabilities and services that improves the reliability of our platforms and data Establishing best practices and governance routines to ensure adherence to SLA commitments to our business Establishing and keeping the Cloud and Onprem ecosystem cost under governance through effective FinOps practices Right sizing the work with partners vendors in a managed services model where applicable Staying informed on the latest advancements in AI and Data technology space finding ways to deliver value by applying and customizing these to specific problem statements in the enterprise Fostering an innovation culture where our employees are engaged in pioneering work that can be shared externally in a number of ways like patents open source publications etc Inspiring our team to create monetizable services that can be leveraged both within Verizon and externally with Verizon s partners You will have a close working relationship with your US counterparts to establish trust and operate as one unified Platform Engineering team Driving Innovation and Efficiency Inspire your team to drive innovation and efficiency by challenging them with niche and complex projects Effectively manage stakeholders and drive programs from end to end You must possess strong presentation skills to communicate complex designs and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences You will define and continuously measure objectives and key results to ensure an outcome-oriented practice What we re looking for You are a dynamic leader with outstanding analytical capabilities and strong technology leadership along with hands-on and leadership experience in Data and Platform engineering areas backed by robust experience in managing large scale infrastructure for AI Analytics and Data needs You are constantly challenging the status quo and identifying new innovative ways to drive your team towards new ways of working that creates efficiencies You ll need to have Bachelor s degree or six years of work experience Six or more years of relevant work experience Experience in leading and building Data ML and Full stack engineering teams with specific focus on GCP AWS Hadoop and RDBMS ecosystems such as Teradata Experience in Site Reliability Engineering SRE Experience in delivering business outcomes in large and complex business organizations Experience in communicating complex designs and outcomes to a non-technical audience Demonstrated ability to influence and lead teams in a matrixed organization fostering strong collaboration with global counterparts Willingness to travel up to approximately 10 of the time Even better if you have one or more of the following Master s degree in Computer Science or an MBA Experience in implementing AIOps strategy and solution Experience in AI - ML Engineering Experience in Data Reliability Engineering DRE Experience in driving large cost optimization programs on Cloud and on premises infrastructure Where you ll be working In this hybrid role you ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Equal Employment Opportunity Verizon is an equal opportunity employer We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race gender disability or any other legally protected characteristics