Director, Data & ML Platform

About the Role:
The charter of the Data + ML/GenAI Platform team is to harness all the data that is ingested and cataloged within the Data LakeHouse for exploration, insights, model development, ML model development lifecycle, ML engineering, and Insights Activation. This team is situated within the larger Data Platform group, which serves as one of the core pillars of our company. We process data at a truly immense scale. The data sets we process are composed of various facets including telemetry data, associated metadata, IT asset information, contextual formation about threat exposure, and many more. These facets comprise the overall data platform, which is currently over 500 PB and maintained in a hyper scale Data Lakehouse.

We are seeking a strategic and technically savvy leader to head our Data and ML Platform team. As the head, you will be responsible for defining and building our ML Experimentation Platform from the ground up, while scaling our data and ML infrastructure to support various roles including Data Platform Engineers, Data Scientists and Threat Analysts. Your key responsibilities will involve overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable ML pipelines for data preparation, cataloging, feature engineering, model training, model serving, and in-field model performance monitoring. These efforts will directly influence critical business decisions. In this role, you'll foster a production-focused culture that effectively bridges the gap between model development and operational success. Furthermore, you'll be at the forefront of spearheading our ongoing Generative AI investments. The ideal candidate for this position will combine strategic vision with hands-on technical expertise in machine learning and data infrastructure, driving innovation and excellence across our data and ML initiatives. We have a team based in Bengaluru, India and this leader will help us expand the team, while also charting its explosive growth towards an AI-powered platform for ML development.

What You’ll Do:

Strategic Leadership

• Define the vision, strategy and roadmap for the organization’s data and ML platform to align with critical business goals.

• Help design, build, and facilitate adoption of a modern Data+ML/Gen AI platform

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in data platform, ML Ops and AI/ML

Team Management

• Build a team of Data and ML Platform engineers and work effectively with a team distributed across the US and India

• Foster a culture of innovation and strong customer commitment for both internal and external stakeholders

Platform Development

• Oversee the design and implementation of a platform containing data pipelines, feature stores and model deployment frameworks.

• Experience leveraging Agentic/GenAI technologies to speed up SDLC from months to weeks without compromising on code quality

• Develop and enhance ML Ops practices to streamline model lifecycle Management from development to production.

Data Governance

• Institute best practices for data security, compliance and quality to ensure safe and secure use of AI/ML models.

Stakeholder engagement

• Partner with product, engineering and data science teams to understand requirements and translate them into platform capabilities.

• Communicate progress and impact to executive leadership and key stakeholders.

Operational Excellence

• Establish SLI/SLO metrics for Observability of the Data and ML Platform along with alerting to ensure a high level of reliability and performance.

• Drive continuous improvement through href="mailto:recruiting@crowdstrike.com">recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.