Director of AI & Data Platform

About this role

OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.

The Position

OPSWAT is building the internal AI & Data platform that will power every non-engineering function at the company — Finance, HR, Legal, Sales Ops, Marketing, CX, IT, Security, and Supply Chain. We are not buying our way out of this problem with off-the-shelf SaaS; we are building it ourselves, with AI-accelerated development, and we need a leader to own the foundation.

As Director of AI Platform & Data, you will own the AI Platform pillar end-to-end and be accountable to executive leadership for its outcomes. You will run the connective tissue that makes company-wide AI enablement real: the MCP servers and gateway, the agent runtime and orchestration layer, the AI-native data platform that feeds them, the analytics layer that surfaces insight through conversation rather than dashboards, and the governance framework that keeps it all safe. You will lead a multi-team organization, make the platform decisions, set the technical and product direction, and represent this pillar to the CEO, COO, and senior leadership. This role is for someone who thinks like a founder, builds like an engineer, and leads like an operator — someone ready to run an org, not assist in running one.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the AI Platform & Data pillar end-to-end: MCP servers, agent runtime and orchestration framework, AI-native data platform, analytics products, and governance.

• Scale and lead a multi-team organization spanning Orchestration, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Governance; recruit, mentor, and develop engineering managers and technical leads — and raise the bar on the leaders you inherit.

• Build the AI-native data platform — a foundation with CDC pipelines, a semantic layer designed for LLM consumption, lineage, freshness SLAs, and a quality framework that makes agent outputs trustworthy by default.