Manager, OCI AI Data Platform

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Manager OCI AI Data Platform (AIDP) that will serve as the platform owner for TGCSs enterprise data lakehouse and AI/analytics environment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This role is responsible for the endtoend strategy governance operations performance and cost management of the AIDP platform ensuring secure reliable and scalable data services supporting analytics AI/ML and enterprise data products.

The Manager leads crossfunctional teams in infrastructure data engineering governance while partnering closely with Security Finance Architecture and business domain owners. This position ensures that TGCS has a modern wellgoverned highperforming data foundation aligned with corporate objectives.

Responsibilities:

Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Define and own the AIDP platform roadmap service catalog architecture standards and long-term evolution strategy.
• Ensure alignment with TGCS enterprise architecture cybersecurity and business priorities.

Platform Operations & Reliability (SRE/DataOps)

• Lead SRE/DataOps operations: observability monitoring alerting capacity planning and incident response for all AIDP components.
• Oversee CI/CD automation IaC runtime configuration environment provisioning and performance tuning.
• Data Engineering & Pipelines
• Oversee ingestion transformation quality and delivery of enterprise datasets using OCI DI Data Flow and Autonomous Database.
• Maintain medallion architecture standards enforce data quality SLAs and manage lineage certification and data readiness for analytics/AI consumers.

Security Compliance & Data Governance Catalog Management

• Partner with Cybersecurity to maintain RBAC IAM controls Zero Trust patterns encryption audit trails and regulated data protections.
• Ensure platform compliance with TGCS policy and industry requirements.
• Lead integration and operation of enterprise Data Catalog including glossary lineage metadata stewardship workflows dataset certification and governance policies.

AI/ML Platform Enablement

• Provide platform capabilities for ML and AI teams enabling model training orchestration monitoring deployment and vector-search/RAG capabilities.
• Establish best practices for ethical secure and responsible AI development.

Cost Optimization

• Maintain cloud financial governance budgets cost allocation usage analytics optimization recommendations and KPI reporting.
• Stakeholder Leadership & Communication
• Act as liaison for business domains communicating roadmap KPIs risks milestones and platform adoption.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment across security finance architecture and analytics teams.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field
• 8 years of deep experience with OCI services: Data Integration Data Flow (Spark) Object Storage Autonomous Database/AI DB Data Catalog Logging/Monitoring IAM.
• Expert-level understanding of cloud data platforms (OCI preferred). Able to design and operate Lakehouse architectures medallion models and high-scale ETL/ELT workflows.
• Deep experience with OCI services: Data Integration Data Flow (Spark) Object Storage Autonomous Database/AI DB Data Catalog Logging/Monitoring IAM.
• Strong competence in data engineering: schema evolution partitioning performance tuning lineage data quality frameworks and large-scale distributed compute.
• Advanced knowledge of AI/ML platform enablement including model lifecycle automation feature engineering vector search embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Skilled in CI/CD infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) automated testing observability and SRE practices for mission-critical systems.

SECURITY & GOVERNANCE

• Strong understanding of cloud security architectures encryption identity governance KMS/Vault data classification and compliance-driven design.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise governance models including cataloging metadata stewardship and dataset certification.

COST OPTIMIZATION

• Demonstrated experience with cloud financial governance including budget forecasting show back cost allocation tagging enforcement anomaly detection and optimization strategies.

LEADERSHIP & SOFT SKILLS

• Exceptional communication skills with ability to articulate platform topics to executives engineers and business partners.
• Strong leadership influencing relationship management prioritization and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead multi-functional teams drive organizational change and standardize best practices across diverse business units.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park NC providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowes Foods earned fuel rewards at Kroger or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart Michaels Carrefour The Gap Calvin Klein Boots Cencosud BJs or Costco These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the worlds installed market share leader.

The nature of retail is changing quickly so if you share our Together Commerce vision of a seamless two-way participatory shopping experience lets get together to drive the new economy.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:

• Group health coverage (medical dental & vision)
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Pre-tax spending accounts
• 401(k) plan (with company match)
• Company provided life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Generous paid holiday schedule paid vacation & sick/personal days

EEO:

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age ancestry color religious creed disability marital status medical condition genetic information military or veteran status national origin race sex gender gender identity gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email to request an accommodation

DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION:

We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore were committed to Diversity Equity and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach Foster Belonging Unleash Opportunity Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). Were passionate about our customers the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.