• Own the Data & AI platform roadmap as a product (Databricks, Unity Catalog, infrastructure, shared services)
• Design and implement core platform building blocks (workspaces, catalogs, compute policies, environments)
• Enforce security, access control, and isolation by design
• Ensure the platform supports data, AI, and agentic workloads consistently
• Contribute hands-on to critical platform components and upgrades
• Define and operate the platform-level agent interoperability layer
• Ensure agents can interoperate across runtimes (Databricks agents, Salesforce Agentforce, internal services)
• Treat agent interfaces as first-class platform APIs, versioned and governed
• Partner with SRE to embed observability, reliability, FinOps into platform primitives
• Co-own CI/CD frameworks and guardrails (policy-as-code, quality gates)
• Participate as a standing member of the Design Authority
• Enable discovery, sandboxing, and fast-track experimentation safely
• Prevent platform fragmentation and shadow architectures