Platform Delivery Lead, Data & AI

Gilead Sciences

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Raleigh, NC
Salary
$146,200–$189,200 / yr
Posted
49 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $201k
This role $168k
$125k most similar roles pay here $252k

This role pays less than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $167,700–$234,400 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $168k versus about $201k for comparable roles.

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About Gilead Sciences

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a leading American biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative medicines for unmet medical needs.

Gilead Sciences currently has 22 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $169,320–$219,120 across 21 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Platform Delivery Lead, Data & AI

As the Platform Delivery Lead, Data & AI, you will join the enterprise team to lead the technical development and delivery of foundational data and AI platform products. You will bridge the gap between platform consumers and use case teams while managing engineering teams composed of internal resources and external partners. Your daily responsibilities include overseeing end-to-end product delivery, defining architecture standards, and building scalable, reusable capabilities like RAG services, guardrails, and agent templates. You will drive technical excellence in data engineering, MLOps, and LLMOps while managing sprint planning and vendor relationships. The role requires expertise in AWS services, including S3, EKS, Lake Formation, and Bedrock, alongside the Databricks platform featuring Unity Catalog and Delta Live Tables. You will solve complex problems regarding infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability within a regulated environment to accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise.

What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end delivery of Data and AI platform products from ideation through production and operations.
  • Manage technical execution for scalable, reusable platform capabilities built on AWS and Databricks.
  • Drive AI services enablement by providing shared capabilities like model access, RAG, and evaluation tools.
  • Create reusable assets and accelerators to speed up the development of AI agents across the enterprise.
  • Lead hybrid engineering teams through sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and release management.
  • Establish technical standards for platform architecture, data models, pipeline patterns, and automation workflows.
  • Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, and operational runbooks for all platform services.
  • Manage vendor relationships and oversee outsourced delivery with co-source providers.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree with eight years of experience, a Master's degree with six years of experience, or a PhD with two years of experience is required.
  • Experience as a lead data engineer, platform engineer, or solution architect is preferred.
  • Significant experience leading technical delivery in an agile environment using Agile/Scrum methodologies is preferred.
  • Strong technical understanding of AWS data and AI services and the Databricks platform is preferred.
  • Experience building and operating shared, multi-tenant platform capabilities and self-service developer experiences is preferred.
  • Knowledge of modern data and AI architectures, including data lakehouse, MLOps/LLMOps, and agentic service patterns is preferred.
  • Familiarity with platform governance, security, and compliance in a regulated environment is preferred.
  • Strong team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills are required.

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