workday
Director, Software Engineering - Agentic AI
Equinix
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Director · 12+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Role Overview
Equinix Incubation builds the agentic systems that run the software delivery lifecycle end to end: a fleet of specialized AI agents, with humans directing the work and owning every gate.
Someone has to own the product, the roadmap, and the team behind it.
That is this role.
You will lead the engineering pods that build the orchestration layer, the persona consoles, and the agents themselves, and carry the roadmap from first MVP to organization-wide scale.
This is a player-coach role for a leader who can hold a product vision, an architecture, an executive audience, and a hiring plan in their head at the same time.
Full Job Posting
Responsibilities
- Own the Product and the Roadmap
- Define and drive the delivery-engine roadmap: orchestrator, agent fleet, consoles, dashboards, and enterprise integrations, sequenced for value
- Make the build-measure-learn loop real: ship in sprints, pilot with live delivery teams, and let adoption and telemetry reshape the plan
- Own trade-off decisions across scope, quality, cost, and speed, and defend them with data in front of senior leadership
- Build and Lead the Pods
- Hire, grow, and retain a small, exceptional team of agent engineers, platform engineers, and delivery talent across the UK and India
- Run lean pods where agents do the routine work and people do the judgment work; model that way of working yourself
- Set a high, kind bar: clear expectations, honest feedback, and career growth in the most modern engineering discipline there is
- Prove the Value
- Own the value story: cycle time, throughput, quality, adoption, and realized business value, instrumented and reported without drama
- Keep the economics honest: agent cost, platform cost, and capacity unlocked, treated as first-class engineering metrics
- Turn pilot wins into an expansion case that finance and function leaders believe
- Set the Operating Standard
- Establish how agent-first engineering is done: evals as release gates, human-in-the-loop approvals, and responsible AI governance with InfoSec and the AI council
- Represent the platform in architecture and governance forums, and keep the roadmap aligned with enterprise platform and data strategy
- Share patterns, standards, and playbooks so other teams can adopt what your team proves
- What Success Looks Like
- The delivery engine is in daily use by live delivery teams, with measurable cycle-time and quality gains that survive finance scrutiny
- You have built a team people want to join, with a hiring record and retention that show it
- Executives trust your roadmap because what you commit to ships, and what ships gets measured
- The operating standards your team set are being adopted beyond your team
Qualifications
- 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams or engineering-led products
- A record of shipping and scaling platforms or products in an enterprise, from first release through adoption
- Hands-on fluency with modern AI: LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, and what it takes to make them production-grade
- Strong architectural judgment across APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration
- Proven hiring and talent development record, including building distributed teams
- Executive-grade communication: you can carry a room of senior stakeholders with a clear, honest narrative
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering AI or automation platforms into regulated or security-conscious enterprises
- Experience with agent frameworks and protocols such as MCP or A2A, and with eval-driven quality practices
- Experience running product operating models: roadmaps, funding cases, value realization
- ·Background in developer platforms, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity
- Core Competencies
- Product & Technical Leadership
- Roadmap ownership; architectural judgment; trade-off decision-making; systems thinking
- People Leadership
- Hiring and talent development; lean pod design; coaching; distributed team leadership
- AI-First Operating Model
- · Agent-first ways of working; evals and governance; human-in-the-loop design; value instrumentation
- Executive Influence
- Narrative and communication; stakeholder alignment; funding and value cases; calm under scrutiny
- Why This Role
- Incubation is a durable capability, not a project team: the team persists, and the product rotates. Agentic delivery is product one; the next incubation bets follow. You will define how AI-first engineering works at Equinix and build the team that proves it. Few director roles come with a mandate this clear and a canvas this open.
- Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
- Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
- We use artificial intelligence in our hiring process. Learn more here.
- This posting is a new position within our organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering AI or automation platforms into regulated or security-conscious enterprises
- Experience with agent frameworks and protocols such as MCP or A2A, and with eval-driven quality practices
- Experience running product operating models: roadmaps, funding cases, value realization
- ·Background in developer platforms, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity
- Core Competencies
- Product & Technical Leadership
- Roadmap ownership; architectural judgment; trade-off decision-making; systems thinking
- People Leadership
- Hiring and talent development; lean pod design; coaching; distributed team leadership
- AI-First Operating Model
- · Agent-first ways of working; evals and governance; human-in-the-loop design; value instrumentation
- Executive Influence
- Narrative and communication; stakeholder alignment; funding and value cases; calm under scrutiny
- Why This Role
- Incubation is a durable capability, not a project team: the team persists, and the product rotates. Agentic delivery is product one; the next incubation bets follow. You will define how AI-first engineering works at Equinix and build the team that proves it. Few director roles come with a mandate this clear and a canvas this open.
- Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
- Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
- We use artificial intelligence in our hiring process. Learn more here.
- This posting is a new position within our organization.
About Equinix
Data Centers & Cloud Infrastructure13931 employeesFounded 1998
Global provider of data center colocation and interconnection services.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsApply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Equinix
Senior Director AI, Chief Revenue Organization
Toronto, CAN
DirectorFull-time
Equinix seeks a senior AI leader to design and scale production generative AI and machine learning systems that support revenue growth across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. The role combines hands-on AI engineer
Discovered 2 days agoView →
Expert, Global Operations Products & Service Delivery
Toronto, CAN
SeniorFull-time
Discovered 4 days agoView →
Senior Business Analyst, Global Ops Scalability
Toronto, CAN
SeniorFull-time
Equinix seeks a senior analyst to improve global operations through business analysis, process change, and technology-enabled scalability. The role leads discovery, requirements, project work, UAT, change adoption, and c
Discovered 4 days agoView →
Senior Technology Program Manager
Toronto, CAN
SeniorFull-time
Equinix is seeking a Senior Technology Program Manager to lead complex, enterprise-scale technology programs and connect investments to customer and business value. The role establishes governance, manages portfolios and
Discovered 6 days agoView →
Staff Engineer, Salesforce Production Support & AI Operations
Bengaluru, IND
SeniorFull-time
Discovered 1 weeks agoView →
Senior Director AI, Chief Revenue Organization
Toronto, CAN
Discovered 2 days agoFull-time
Senior Data Scientist
Bengaluru, IND
Discovered 3 days agoFull-time
Expert, Global Operations Products & Service Delivery
Toronto, CAN
Discovered 4 days agoFull-time
Senior Business Analyst, Global Ops Scalability
Toronto, CAN
Discovered 4 days agoFull-time
Senior Technology Program Manager
Toronto, CAN
Discovered 6 days agoFull-time
Staff Engineer, Salesforce Production Support & AI Operations
Bengaluru, IND
Discovered 1 weeks agoFull-time
Operations, Controls Engineer - Manchester
Manchester, GBR
Discovered 1 weeks agoFull-time
Senior Manager, Global Benefits Solutions
Bengaluru, IND
Discovered 1 weeks agoFull-time