Head of AI Platform Engineering and Public Cloud

Head of AI Platform Engineering & Public Cloud

Location: Houston TX or Remote

Reports To: Deputy CIO

Employment Type: Full time

Requisition Begin Date: 4/30/2026

Requisition End Date: 6/30/2026 (Posting may close earlier if filled or business needs change.)

About Us

Help us insure it. Tokio Marine HCC is a leading global specialty insurance group backed by the strength and stability of the Tokio Marine Group. With more than 50 years of sustained growth and profitability and offices across the United States the United Kingdom Europe and other international locations we offer more than 100 classes of specialty insurancecovering everything from the crops that feed us and the concerts that entertain us to rescuing travelers abroad.

Guided by our Mind Over Risk philosophy we empower clients to pursue opportunities with confidence while fostering a culture rooted in innovation collaboration and trust. Always Advancing we embrace an entrepreneurial spirit; as Experts in Tomorrow we anticipate whats next; and by Reaching Out we build genuine connections that enable our people and our business to thrive.

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior technology leader to serve as Head of AI Platform Engineering & Public Cloud responsible for defining and executing TMHCCs enterprise platform strategy across both cloud and artificial intelligence domains.

This role will build and lead a net-new AI Platform Engineering function while inheriting and evolving the existing Public Cloud Platform Engineering team. The primary mandate is to enable safe scalable and governed AI adoption across the enterprise transitioning from fragmented experimentation to enterprise-grade capabilities.

This is a strategic leadership role. Success requires deep technical credibility strong organizational leadership and the ability to drive alignment and outcomes across a complex federated environment.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Vision

• Define and execute enterprise strategy for AI platform engineering and multi-cloud environments

• Establish AI guardrails governance models and architectural patterns

• Drive decisions on standardization centralization and build vs. buy

• Align platform roadmap with business priorities

AI Platform Engineering

• Build and scale a net-new AI platform function

• Implement governance-by-engineering with policy-as-code and automated controls

• Partner with security on identity data protection and secure AI usage

• Establish model access observability and risk frameworks

• Reduce shadow AI through approved tools and vendor strategies

Public Cloud Platform Leadership

• Lead and evolve the existing cloud platform team

• Ensure secure scalable and cost-efficient cloud capabilities

• Integrate cloud and AI strategies into a unified platform model

Platform as a Product

• Operate platforms as products with clear roadmaps and metrics

• Develop internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities

• Define service catalogs and golden paths

• Drive adoption through developer-centric design

Developer Experience & Enablement

• Improve developer experience through self-service and automation

• Deliver APIs templates and platform interfaces

• Enable AI-assisted development workflows

• Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption

Governance Security & Automation

• Embed governance via policy-as-code and automated guardrails through close partnership with Information Security

• Standardize identity secrets and access controls

• Ensure audit-ready telemetry and compliance

• Enforce data governance and AI usage controls

FinOps & Optimization

• Embed cost management into platform capabilities

• Provide cost visibility and enforce budgets

• Drive accountability via consumption models

• Optimize cloud and AI cost-performance tradeoffs

Organizational Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing platform engineering organization

• Define operating models across federated teams

• Influence stakeholders without direct authority

• Develop talent and foster accountability culture

What You Bring

Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience

Experience

• 10 years in cloud platform engineering or AI environments

• 5 years leading engineering or platform teams

• Experience building and scaling platform capabilities

• Strong technical background in cloud and AI/LLM systems

• Experience with policy-as-code and governance frameworks

• Understanding of AI risks security and data governance

• Ability to lead through ambiguity and drive outcomes

Preferred

• Experience building enterprise AI platforms

• Experience with internal developer platforms

• Familiarity with RAG and agentic workflows

• FinOps and cost optimization experience

• Exposure to SRE and modern platform tooling

• Experience integrating with enterprise systems

Additional Qualifications

• Product-minded leader focused on adoption and impact

• Influential operator across stakeholders

• Systems thinker connecting technology to business outcomes

• Pragmatic decision-maker balancing risk and speed

• Experienced enterprise change leader

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and emerging technologies

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive medical vision and dental benefit package with eligibility beginning on your date of hire

• Strong learning culture with ongoing development opportunities

• Basic life and disability insurance

• 401(k) plan with 6% company match

• 20 days of PTO two floating holidays approximately 11 paid holidays and volunteer time off

• Paid parental leave

• An opportunity to do meaningful work and love what you do

Pay Transparency

The pay range for this position is $175600 - $387300 which includes geographic adjustments where applicable. The pay range is the range TMHCC in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The hired applicant will be offered pay within the entire range based on the candidates geographic location qualifications work experience education and/or skill level. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of color race sex national origin sexual orientation religion age veteran status disability pregnancy citizenship status genetic information or any other basis protected by federal state or local pay equity laws.

You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check if the Company is concerned about a conviction that is directly related to the job you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction or challenge the accuracy of the background report. The Company will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal state and local laws such as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (18 USC 1033(e))(the VCCLEA) which restricts financial institutions and insurers such as TMHCC from employing individuals with certain types of criminal convictions. Where the hiring and employment of individuals is not restricted by the foregoing the Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history in compliance with applicable law such as the California Fair Chance Act the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance the San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

TMHCC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances