Head of Data Platform Engineering & AI Innovation

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike enabling the coordination thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Job Description

We are seeking a technically deep Strategy Leader to own the Brain of our data ecosystem. You will act as the technical visionary for our central data engineering landscape leading a global team responsible for the convergence of Data Platform Storage-as-a-Service Search and Applied AI.

This is a Platform-as-a-Product role. Your customers are the internal product teams building the next generation of 911 dispatch AI analytics and command center software. Your mission is to provide them with the robust infrastructure data gravity and AI capabilities they need to innovate at speed. You will bridge the gap between AI research and reality operationalizing models that power mission-critical public safety solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership & Strategy:

• Provide strong leadership direction and mentoring to teams fostering professional growth and developing technical and leadership talent.

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for Motorolas Data Platform enabling search analytics and AI capabilities across the enterprise and product ecosystem.

• Lead and grow a diverse high-performing engineering organization of data AI/ML and platform engineers.

• Partner with engineering and product leaders across the organization to act as a key stakeholder and data evangelist.

• Drive a culture of data excellence innovation and measurable business impact.

2. Core Data Platform & Insights:

• Own the architecture development and operation of our core data analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks Microsoft Fabric).

• Lead the team in the development of robust and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines crucial for supporting real-time intelligence and overall data architecture.

• Enable data democratization and data science by championing best practices in data governance quality and turning large-scale data into actionable insights.

3. Search & Storage Services:

• Lead the Search team in developing and operating high-performance search experiences (Vector Semantic and traditional search) for our products.

• Oversee the Drive team which provides reliable scalable Storage-as-a-Service for internal application teams.

• Drive a platform-as-a-product mindset emphasizing automation self-service and a strong developer experience for our internal customers.

4. AI R&D & Excellence:

• Lead our R&D and Excellence team focused on data-centric AI.

• Direct applied research and prototyping in key emerging areas including Generative AI Agentic AI MLOps and advanced Data Science.

• Establish the frameworks and tooling required to scale AI/ML adoption across the company.

Qualifications :

• 10 years of experience in data & AI engineering with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership role (Sr. Manager or above).

• Proven experience building and scaling large-scale data platforms distributed systems or cloud-native services.

• Strong technical knowledge of modern data ecosystems (e.g. Databricks Spark Microsoft Fabric data lakes data warehousing) and cloud environments (Azure or AWS).

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading globally distributed or multi-site engineering teams.

• Hands-on experience or strong conceptual understanding of MLOps Data Science or applied AI/ML.

• Familiarity with modern search and retrieval technologies (e.g. vector databases Elasticsearch).

• Practical knowledge of the Gen AI Agentic AI and LLM ecosystem.

• A people-first leadership style with a track record of mentoring managers engineers and building engaged high-performing teams.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate a complex technical vision to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

This position is subject to working in high security areas governed by the US Department of Justices Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy and therefore requires successfully passing a more stringent fingerprint background check administered by Motorola Solutions Inc. customers.

Target Base Salary Range: $170000 - $210000 USD.

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 10 years of experience in data & AI engineering with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership role (Sr. Manager or above).

• Experience with modern data ecosystems (e.g. Databricks Spark Microsoft Fabric data lakes data warehousing) and cloud environments (Azure or AWS).

• Must be able to obtain background clearance as required by government customer

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Our :

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical Dental Visionbenefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• GenerousPaidTime Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• PaidParental & Family Leave

• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.

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