Director AI Platform and Engineering

Please only apply if you have deep experience of working in the Life Sciences/Biotech industry Your new role The Director, Agentic AI Platform and Engineering owns the technical platform on which the businesses'' AI agents are built and operated: the AWS-based agentic automation stack (Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore and related services). This is a hands-on engineering role reporting to the Senior Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence, and does not currently have direct reports.The role works through existing functions rather than duplicating them: Infrastructure for AWS accounts, networking, and cloud operations; Security for identity, access, and data protection; and Data / enterprise systems teams for Snowflake and system integrations.Key ResponsibilitiesOwn the internal implementation and architecture of Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore and related AWS services as the businesses single enterprise agentic automation platform.Design and own runtime governance components: guardrails, evaluation harnesses, automated regression testing, observability, logging, and prompt/tool/model versioning.Build and maintain reusable agent templates and platform engineering patterns so new agents are faster, cheaper, and safer to deliver.Own the tool/action architecture, including APIs and Lambda / Step Functions / EventBridge patterns, ensuring agents access enterprise systems through narrow, approved tools rather than broad credentials.What you''ll need to succeed 10-12 years in software or ..... full job details .....