Senior Platform Engineering Lead

Function

Cloud & Data Engineering

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineering Lead to design, define, and lead a next-generation platform architecture spanning on-premise data centers and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

This role is primarily architecture- and strategy-focused, responsible for establishing a unified platform across Application, Data, and AI domains, including emerging Agentic AI capabilities.

You will set the technical direction, standards, and blueprints, while guiding engineering teams to deliver a scalable, secure, and future-ready platform.

Key Responsibilities

1. Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Define and own the target architecture for a unified hybrid platform across:
  • On-premise infrastructure
  • AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Establish a platform-as-a-product model with reusable services and self-service capabilities
• Develop reference architectures, design principles, and standards across all layers

2. Technical Leadership & Governance

• Act as the primary architecture authority for platform engineering
• Provide guidance and oversight for engineering teams implementing the platform
• Define architecture governance, review processes, and technology standards
• Ensure alignment between platform design and business goals

3. Application Platform Architecture

• Define architecture for modern application platforms, including:
  • Kubernetes-based environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, on-prem)
  • Microservices and service mesh patterns
• Establish DevSecOps and CI/CD architecture standards
• Drive design of Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and self-service capabilities
• Define observability architecture (monitoring, logging, tracing)

4. Data Platform Architecture

• Design scalable data platform architecture, including:
  • Data lake, data warehouse, or lakehouse models
  • Batch and streaming data processing frameworks
• Define data governance, security, and integration architecture
• Ensure interoperability across cloud and on-prem environments

5. AI & Agentic AI Platform Architecture

• Define architecture for AI/ML platforms, including MLOps pipelines
• Lead design of Agentic AI platform capabilities, including:
  • AI agent orchestration frameworks
  • Integration with LLM platforms and enterprise systems
  • Agent lifecycle management, reasoning workflows, and safety controls
• Establish standards for integrating with:
  • Azure AI, AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI
• Define infrastructure patterns for GPU and high-performance workloads

6. Infrastructure & Multi-Cloud Architecture

• Design architecture for on-prem data center environments:
  • Virtualization (VMware, OpenStack)
  • Networking, storage, disaster recovery
• Define multi-cloud landing zones, connectivity, and governance models
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and patterns (Terraform preferred)

7. Security, Compliance & Reliability Architecture

• Define security architecture:
  • IAM, encryption, secrets management
• Establish zero-trust and secure-by-design principles
• Define frameworks for resilience, scalability, and high availability
• Guide adoption of cost optimization (FinOps) practices

8. Team Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead and mentor platform architects and engineering teams
• Collaborate with:
  • Application teams
  • Data & AI teams
  • Infrastructure and security leaders
• Drive adoption of platform standards and architectural blueprints
• Communicate architecture vision to technical and business stakeholders

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years in platform engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure architecture
• Strong experience in:
  • Designing hybrid and multi-cloud platforms
  • Defining enterprise-scale architecture standards
• Proven leadership experience in architecture or senior technical roles

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Deep expertise in at least two cloud platforms:
  • AWS, Azure, GCP
• Strong understanding of on-premise infrastructure and data center architecture

Containers & DevOps

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystems
• Understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automation frameworks
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)

Data Platform

• Strong architectural knowledge of modern data platforms
• Experience with data ecosystem tools (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery preferred)

AI / Agentic AI (Preferred)

• Experience designing or enabling AI/ML platforms and MLOps pipelines
• Understanding of:
  • LLM ecosystems
  • Agent-based systems and orchestration frameworks

Key Competencies

• Strong architecture and system design expertise
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical blueprints
• Strategic thinking with strong governance and alignment capability
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Cross-domain knowledge across infrastructure, applications, data, and AI

About us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.