Head of Platform, Enterprise AI transformation | Bangalore

Bangalore Permanent View Job Description
This role leads the engineering organisation responsible for the company's core platform stack, spanning enterprise integration, agent orchestration, and serving infrastructure. The role involves building scalable, reusable platform capabilities that accelerate enterprise deployments, improve inference economics, and create long-term technical differentiation.
  • Shape the long-term architecture & development of a leading AI platform.
  • Lead platform engineering, scalable systems, and enterprise integration.

About Our Client

The company is AI-native transformation tech startup building enterprise-grade platforms that enable organisations to deploy intelligent automation and agentic AI solutions within complex existing technology environments.

Job Description

  • Define and own the technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for the company's platform ecosystem.
  • Establish architectural principles, standards, and governance across platform components to ensure scalability, reusability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Own key platform success metrics including productivity gains, adoption of platform capabilities, time-to-value, reliability, and engineering leverage.
  • Lead research-to-production execution, ensuring ML and AI innovations are effectively translated into scalable platform capabilities.
  • Oversee platform performance, observability, reliability, infrastructure optimisation, and inference economics at enterprise scale.

The Successful Applicant

  • 15+ years of experience leading platform engineering, infrastructure, building large-scale systems, or large-scale distributed software organisations.
  • Strong technical depth across enterprise integration platforms, knowledge systems, distributed architectures, and production ML environments.
  • Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering teams, including managing senior engineering managers and technical leaders.
  • Track record building developer-facing platforms, APIs, SDKs, or infrastructure adopted across large engineering organisations.
  • Excellent executive communication skills with the ability to engage CIOs, CTOs, boards, investors, and senior customer stakeholders.

What's on Offer

  • Early build-out opportunity
  • Benefits like hybrid work mode and equity
  • Work with founders who come from great pedigree & background
Quote job ref
JN-092026-7097250

Job summary

Function
Information Technology
Sub Sector
Infrastructure Management
What is your area of specialisation?
Technology & Telecoms
Location
Bangalore
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-092026-7097250

Diversity & Inclusion at Michael Page

We don't just accept difference - we celebrate it. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this role and are committed to building inclusive, diverse workplaces where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.