Director — FDE Office; Forward Deployed Engineering

Position: Director — FDE Office (Forward Deployed Engineering)
About Global Foundries:

Global Foundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, Global Foundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit  of Role:

Global Foundries is scaling the next generation of enterprise AI and agentic workflows through the CIO FDE Office. The Director leads a blended team of internal engineers, NCG resources, and contractor FDEs (partners) to incubate, industrialize, and operationalize AI-powered solutions across HR, IT, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and other business domains. This is a supervisory role that combines people leadership, portfolio and demand management, architecture direction, executive engagement, and financial stewardship of the AI platform.

The Director sets the operating model and standards for a small, high-impact organization, ensures solutions ship with the right security, observability, governance, and cost controls, and serves as the CIO's trusted partner for translating enterprise AI strategy into delivered, measurable value. Roughly 70% of the role is strategy, leadership, and stakeholder engagement & management; ~30% is retained technical fluency and architecture judgment.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Team Leadership & Talent Development Lead, coach, and develop the team 5 direct reports plus 5 NCG resources; build a durable talent pipeline and career paths within the pod. Manage a blended workforce of internal GF FDE engineers and contractor resources; scale capacity up and down as demand requires. Set the CIO FDE Office operating model, engineering standards, roles/responsibilities, and delivery methodology.

Own staffing plans, investment proposals, and capability-building; foster a culture of ownership, safety, and measurable outcomes.
2. Portfolio, Intake Governance & Delivery Own the CIO FDE portfolio — prioritize use cases, sequence delivery, and align capacity to the highest-value opportunities. Run intake governance for new technology requests: apply formal intake templates and screening questions to ensure strategic alignment and reusable patterns. Drive use cases from incubation to production without surprises in risk, security, or cost; hold go/no-go and production-readiness gates.

Represent solutions at Design Review Board (DRB) and enterprise architecture reviews.
3. Enterprise AI & Agentic Platform Strategy Set technical direction for enterprise AI agents built across various enterprise applications such as Service Now, Workday, SAP, Supply Chain, HR, and IT Operations. Guide architecture for MCP integrations, APIs, multi-agent orchestration, cloud (AWS / ADP BYOC), identity (Entra , OBO, token brokering), and observability. Champion reusable components, reference implementations, and standards that reduce delivery time for future use cases.

Retain enough hands-on depth to pressure-test designs, make credible build-vs-buy decisions, and unblock the team on hard technical calls.
4. Cost, Budget & AI Tokenomics Stewardship Own budget accountability for the CIO FDE Office — platform licensing, SOWs/contracts (e.g., Redpanda ADP), contractor spend, and cloud/AI consumption. Build and maintain AI tokenomics visibility: showback/chargeback models across Copilot, Cowork, AWS Bedrock, Git Hub Copilot, and other GenAI tools, with dashboards for leadership. Forecast AI/cloud consumption, model ROI and total cost of ownership, and drive cost transparency and spend governance for business units.

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