Director I, IT Service Owner - Data & AI Platforms

Job Description

BAE Systems is seeking an IT Service Owner – Data & AI Platforms responsible for the strategy, architecture, reliability, security, and full lifecycle management of the enterprise data and AI platform ecosystem. This role serves as the authoritative owner of the technology stack enabling ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, access, and AI/ML platform capabilities. The leader in this role will define the technology roadmap for the enterprise data and AI platforms - powering the company’s core data operations through technologies such as Snowflake, Dataiku, Power BI, Semarchy, and Collibra. The Service Owner ensures the platform is modern, scalable, integrated, cost-efficient, and delivers the availability and security required for a regulated defense environment.

Responsibilities * Own the end-to-end performance, scalability, and security of the enterprise data and AI platform stack, including Snowflake, Dataiku, Power BI, Semarchy, and Collibra. * Establish engineering standards, integration patterns, and architectural guardrails for all platform components. * Define and govern the multi-year roadmap for services such as ingestion, ETL/ELT frameworks, orchestration, compute engines, storage layers, cataloging, access control, and observability. * Drive modernization initiatives including lakehouse architectures, cloud-native data engineering, containerization, automation, and reliability engineering. * Direct platform architecture across batch, micro-batch, and streaming data flows. * Ensure robust integration between Snowflake, Dataiku, Power BI, Semarchy, Collibra, and adjacent enterprise systems. * Oversee reliability engineering, monitoring, observability, incident response, and change management for all platform services. * Maintain strong disaster recovery, platform resiliency, and high-availability designs. * Implement zero-trust aligned data access, encryption, masking, and audit logging across al